Unit 28 Death Valley503 死亡谷 死亡谷的名字虽然不好,名声也欠佳,但这里并非只有黄沙和岩石的不毛之地。它是一个风景优美的地方,是许多动植物,甚至人类的家园 Death Valley doesn't sound like a very inviting place. It is one of the hottest places in the wo

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The State Forestry Administration has released new analysis, showing that as of the end of 2014, desertification has declined in China by just over 12-thousand square kilometers. However, there is still some 2.6-million square kilometers of desert st

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Pinning the ants to the hot sand surface, the spiders first cook them to death before dragging them under. In the Namib, even the toughest animals struggle with the heat. Gemsbok trek to the crests of

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Each melon is a valuable package of moisture and seeds. The plant also benefits from this plunder as its seeds may be carried for fifty kilometers in the elephant's stomach before being dropped in a p

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A desert in the American Southwest provides evidence of a hunt from long ago. Scientists found footprints from a hunt involving ancient human beings and a large prehistoric sloth. They discovered the footprints in what is now the White Sands National

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Each night on Old Las Vegas's Fremont Street, lights and speakers create a show overhead. Paris may be the City of Light, but the city of lights is the gambling oasis of Las Vegas, in the western state of Nevada. Along a downtown casino row that's of

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Guayule- A Promising Crop From The Desert D:Holy guayule,Yale. Y:Holy what? D:Guayule.It's a desert-dwelling shrub from the Southwest. Y:What about guayule?I never even heard of it. D:Several things.One of the most important features of the guayule p

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Some cacti, like the saguaro, grow to tree size, but true trees need more moisture than most desert environments can supply, so they are scarce on deserts. 一些仙人掌,如撒瓜罗,能长到橡树那么高。但真正的树却需要比大多数

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Some methods of preserving food are easy to understand. 一些保存食物的方法很容易理解。 For example, it's easy to see that freezing your food, or packing it in salt, would make it inhospitable to the microbes which would otherwise cause

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歌手:seals and crofts Windflowers Windflowers . my father told me not to go near them. He said he feared them always . and he told me that they carried him away Windflowers Windflowers, Beautiful windflowers I couldn't wait to touch them, to smell

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UN Warns Against Land Degradation A top U.N. advisor said on Friday that every minute, 23 hectares of land are degraded by drought and desertification. He said its damaging the economic, social and environmental pillars needed for sustainable develop

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US Troops Clear Highway for Pullout from Iraq All U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the month. The road south to Kuwait has been a hotbed of anti-American violence, roadside bombs and assaults by insurgents. Teams like Minnesota's

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The Navajo tribal park called Monument Valley is a stunningly beautiful, yet also stark and forbidding, place. The largest tribe of American Indians lives on a 6-million-hectare patch of desert and scrub brush that covers much of northern Arizona and

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: David Yazbek's mother is Jewish, his father Lebanese. In his newest Broadway musical, The Band Visit, (ph) Mr. Yazbek wanted to write about the meeting of those two cultures. And as Jeff Lunden reports, his show focuses on the comm

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2 哦,天啊,木乃伊! 杰克和安妮向窗外望去。 树屋停在了一棵棕榈树上。这棵树旁边还有很多其他的棕榈树,这一片绿洲的四周被沙漠环绕着。 喵!又是一声猫叫。 杰克和安妮一起往下看

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World's Largest Solar Plant to Go Online in California 世界最大太阳能电厂在加州落户 WASHINGTON The world's largest solar thermal plant is set to go online in California by the end of the year. While wind and sun-generated energy are gen

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Todd: Simon, when you were younger, did you take vacations with your family? Simon: Yes, I did. Todd: OK, where did you go? Simon: Well, I went to many places, but I have one memorable experience. I went to Baja, California. Todd: Baja, California. N

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When you're down and troubled And you need some loving care And nothing, nothing is going right Close your eyes and think of me And soon I will be there To brighten up even your darkest night You just call out my name And you know wherever I am I'll

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Todd: Hey, Rebecca, can you talk a little bit about Australia and just your thoughts about your home country? Rebecca: I guess I spend most of my time in Sydney, but one of the things l really love about Sydney is that it's very multicultural, so it'

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