Diamonds 钻石 Diamonds are rare, beautiful, and also quite useful. They are the hardest substance found in nature. That means a diamond can cut any other surface. And only another diamond can make a

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

The United Nations Climate Summit takes place next week in Poland. About 20,000 people from 190 countries are expected to take part in the conference. There, world leaders will debate how to limit climate change -- the weather events linked to slowly

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Science and technology. 科技。 Carbon capture and storage. 碳的收集和储存。 A shiny new pipe dream. 闪亮的管子 崭新的梦想。 Capturing the carbon dioxide from power stations is not hard. But it is. expensive. A new project in Nor

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Scientists: CO2 Levels Will Rise This Year International scientists think the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released into Earths atmosphere will rise by two percent in 2017. The number represents the first increase in worldwide carbon emissions

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. The heart-stopping news from Stockholm is that the heart never stopsgrowing, that is. Because researchers have shown that the human heart continues to pr

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And the Athabasca River drains downstream to a range of Aboriginal communities. 阿萨帕斯卡尔河下游即原住民聚集地。 In Fort Chippewa, the 800 people there, 奇普怀恩堡有800位居民, are finding toxins in the food chain, 食物链

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Trees in real forests might also share information below ground. 在真正的森林中,树木可能还会在地下交流信息。 But this was really controversial, and some people thought I was crazy, 但这个想法其实挺有争议的,一些人

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Oil is good and bad. Its good because it helps our energy needs. Its bad because it causes pollution. Oil is a fossil fuel. Burning it produces carbon dioxide (CO2). This is one of the biggest causes of global warming. There isnt much oil left in the

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Science and technology 科学技术 Going underground 向地底进军 A project to reveal more about all the carbon on Earth 旨在向人们揭示更多地球碳信息的项目 The Deep Carbon Observatory 深碳观测站 A world still full of secrets

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While experts are developing 'greener' alternative fuel sources, a group of undergrads are creating a more natural one. 当专家们还在研发更环保的燃料时,一群在校生已经开始制作一种天然的燃料。 The team is working towa

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PARISDelegates of more than 190 nations meeting in Paris adopted a historic accord Saturday that aims to slow the pace of global warming and for the first time asks all countries to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. Announcement of the final agre

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China launched its first carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring satellite via a Long March-2D carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 3:22 am last Thursday, and became the third country after Japan and the US to monitor greenhouse gases throu

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G8 set new global warming targets Leaders of the G8 leading industrial countries have agreed to try to limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels by 2050. The summit, in the Italian city of L'Aquila, also set tough new target

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新GRE阅读文章内容复杂程度降低了,但是新GRE阅读变化在于逻辑复杂程度升高。考生们想要获得新GRE阅读理解的高分,则更加注重文章的内在联系。这反映了ETS对于影响研究生阶段学术成功的

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Speaking on Monday the US president was blunt and to the point no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a change in climate The tough new federal restrictions on Green House gas emissions from coal power plants in

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BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- An innovative stage in the production of the latest iPhone models might help all its suppliers, especially those in China, to cut carbon emissions and improve efficiency, according to an Apple executive on Monday. The bi

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Climate change 气候变化 Raise the green lanterns 高举环保大旗 China is using climate policy to push through domestic reforms 中国以环境政策推动国内改革 WHEN world leaders gathered in Paris to discuss cutting planet-heating emis

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By 1958, when people in lab coats started to pay attention to it, it had risen to 315 parts per million. 到1958年实验室人员开始重视这个问题的时候,那个数字已经上升到百万分之三百一十五。 Today it is over 360 parts

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7.低碳生活 现在全世界都在倡导低碳生活(low-carbon life),即:降低二氧化碳的排放,采取低能量、低消耗、低开支的生活方式。低碳生活对我们大家都有好处,请你写一篇短文向一家英文报社投

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