Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(197) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方现代文背诵篇章

Now, we did study some other species of primate. 我们也研究过其他种类的灵长类动物。 What species of primate do you think is even more divergent from the wild primates than the captive primates? 你觉得哪种灵长类动物比圈养的

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Todd: Well actually speaking of extreme sports, we're talking about extreme sports, have you heard about ultra marathon? Julia: I'm reading a book right now that's about a tribe of ultra runners in Mexico and I thing it's gonna come on to the subject

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Really? I interrupted, fascinated. 真的?我打断了他的话,有些着迷。 But you said you were the only one who could hear people's thoughts. 可你说过你是唯一一个能听到别人的思想的人。 That's true. She knows other thin

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Research into Population Genetics While not exactly a top selling book, The History and Geography of Human Genes is a remarkable collection of more than 50 years of research in population genetics. It stands as the most extensive survey to date on ho

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Our human population has risen significantly 这时 人类人口大幅增加了 It went from one and three quarters to 2.3 billion just a couple of decades 仅仅二三十年时间 从17.5亿增加到了23亿 As a boy at the New York Worlds Fair in 1

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Working The Night Shift Its time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes: Dear A Moment of Science, My husband works a night shift, and Im worried that it might be affecting his health. He sleeps during the day, but somehow

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Technology activists are appealing to tech companies and their leaders to build a future in which the effect of machinery on humans is lessened. Some workers have long feared that machines are coming to take away their jobs. Robots now are doing more

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From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. An outbreak of a brain-destroying virus is currently happening in the Kerala state of India. The number of people who have died from Nipah is relatively small. Officials from Indias Mini

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University of Cambridge scientists have trained sheep to recognize the faces of famous people. The scientists hope facial recognition may help with their understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. The researchers showed the sheep pictures of people

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DNA is the fundamental molecule the carries genetic instructions that help build the living world. DNA是携带遗传指令最基本的分子,帮助建造了生机勃勃的世界。 Humans have DNA. Pigs have DNA. Even bacteria and some viruses hav

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Are you in the holiday spirit yet? Well, let's take you Cross Country, beginning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You might now. Its pretty. Bob Cox loves to make the holiday light display a pretty big spectacle with 150,000 computer-animated lights. Now

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Imagine life without fire. A lot of huddling for warmth. The consensus was that humans could make and control fire when they first migrated north to cold

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Humans prefer to associate with other humans who share their subculture. That's why there are needing* clubs and fantacy football leagues. And it turns out that dolpins also form cliques. Researchers found that dolphins known as spongers spend most o

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Bugs 虫子 What are bugs? Bugs usually have thick skin. 什么是虫子?它们通常有厚厚的外壳。 There are many kinds of bugs. 虫子有很多种。 Some bugs have body parts. 有些虫子有身体部位。 For example, antibodies have th

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The Ozone Layer 臭氧层 Can humans live away from the Earth? 人类能远离地球生活吗? Maybe it will be possible in the future but it is impossible now. 或许将来可以,但现在不行。 In our solar system, the Earth is probably the

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AS IT IS 2014-08-19 Ebola Kills More Than Humans 埃博拉病毒所杀害的不仅仅是人类 The Ebola virus has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa. But it also threatens wildlife, like the severely endangered western lowland gorilla. VOA

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AS IT IS 2015-06-19 Pope Calls for Worldwide Effort Against Global Warming 教皇呼吁全球努力对抗地球变暖 The leader of the Roman Catholic Church has called for a cultural revolution to save the planet from environmental ruin. Pope Franci

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NASA Working Toward Mission to Mars The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, said that the space agency is on track to land people on Mars in the 2030s. Charles Bolden is the administrator for NASA. He said that five ye

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Hello there, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today we have news -- a lot of news -- about chimpanzees. A new study has found that as chimpanzees grow, they can recognize emotions in other creatu

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