Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles. There is some evide

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(172) / 评论(0) 分类 新东方现代文背诵篇章

American History: Peace Treaty Ends American Revolution From VOA Learning English, this is THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week in our series, we complete the story of the American Revolution. The tim

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary molar: large teeth at the back of ones mouth (top and bottom) emerge: to appear; to come up from the surface impacted: wedged below or between something (e.g., stuck between the jawbone and another tooth) processed: mechanica

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Hello, we have a special triple grande caramel mocha with whipped cream for only three ninety-nine. Can I take your order? That's the kind of information-loaded question that you get asked when you pull up to a Starbucks drive-thru. Just as you are a

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Americans, Briton Win Nobel Chemistry Prize for Directed Evolution Two Americans and one Briton have won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing new processes used to create drugs, chemicals and biofuels. Frances Arnold of the California In

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Darwin Under Attack In US Science Classroom 美国自然科学课堂抨击达尔文进化论 The USconstitution guarantees separation of church and state. This means among other things that religious

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UnderseaCableCouldRevolutionizeOceanography This past April, there was a big volcanic eruption in Americas Pacific Northwest. If you missed it, you're not alone. It happened under the ocean off the northern Oregon coast. Since then, several research

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Agriculture Report - Inventor of Weed Eater Started a Revolution 农业报道 - 巴拉斯开启割草机革命 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 George Ballas of Houston, Texas, lived

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Libyan Economy in Post-Revolution Boom On a busy road on the outskirts of town, a vegetable stand run by Ibrahim Jiuma Garguti has doubled in size since the revolution. Garguti says people have more money to spend and officials don't bother him anymo

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Hundreds of Muscovites have been strapping blue buckets to the roofs of their cars to mock the flashing blue lights that allow senior bureaucrats to drive into oncoming traffic and break the rules that everyone else has to obey Russian lawmakers are

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Human skulls on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural Museum of Natural History Scientists writing in the journal Science report that two skeletons found in a cave in South Africa belong to a previously unclassified species of hominid or e

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Yemenis Take Another Step Forward in Unfinished Revolution The outcome is pre-ordained, but that did not stop people in the capital from flooding polling stations to choose their first new president in nearly 34 years. Pride in the success of the upr

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On the streets of Egypt, people are doing three things: celebrating their revolution, memorializing those who died in it and getting down to the nitty-gritty work of building their country's future. For the past three weeks, Farah El Moataz's frantic

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Thousands Gather to Celebrate Egypt's 'Second Revolution' It was the largest gathering of the week. Thousands of people, including families with their children, crowded into Tahrir Square one more time. This time, says dentist Dalia Ezzeldin, the cro

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GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. And on the show today, ideas about the things we do in the present that could have troubling consequences in the future. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't look forward to the future. I me

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Computers Predict Pop Chart Success Many parents are no doubt familiar with their teenagers' musical tastes. Very few are probably inspired enough to launch an experiment into them. I listened to some of the music my oldest teenage daughter is listen

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Good morning, Sir. Can I help you with something? 早上好,先生。我可以帮您什么忙吗? I hope so. I'm not actually a customer here, but I saw an advertisement in yesterday's newspaper about your new bank card. 希望如此。我实际上

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Social Revolution in the 1960s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. Today, we tell about life in the United States during the nineteen sixt

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Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry This years prize is harnessing the power of evolution. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to Frances H. Arnold for the d

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Fossil discoveries have begun to unravel the riddle of whale evolution, providing paleontologists with clues. Indohyus was a fox sized, even toed ungulate found in India. This herbivore was adapted to living in the water like whales, with a bony wall

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