Lee Berger has spent his professional life searching for evidence of mankind's past. He is a paleo-anthropologist who with some help from National Geographic has been studying and searching for the fossil remains of our ancestors for nearly 20 years.

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2008年

The Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania is being sued by a group of parents after it added intelligent design to the curriculum presented to high school biology students. Intelligent design, the parents argue, is false science. It is simply a

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Broadcast: Feb 17, 2003 By Jill Moss This the VOA Special English Development Report. Researchers have discovered a successful new treatment to fight lymphatic filariasis around the world. This diseas

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AS IT IS 2013-10-28 Chimpanzees May Recognize Emotions in Others 黑猩猩能识别其他生物的情绪 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

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Physicist Stephen Hawking said people should return to the Moon and go to Mars because leaving Earth may be the only way to save humanity. Hawking said that as Earth faces climate change and pressure on natural resources, human beings need to reach b

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AS IT IS 2014-07-28 UN Agency Warns of Link Between Ebola and Bats 联合国机构警告埃博拉病毒与蝙蝠之间的联系 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is warning people in West African countries about a link between eati

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Zoo Animals Show Their Artistic Sides 动物园动物展出自己的艺术作品 The pursuit of happiness is so important, America's founding fathers put it in the Declaration of Independence. Any zookeeper will tell you animals need enrichment, just

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(一月)

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: When you talk to disease experts about what might alarm them, it's not Ebola or Zika. It's Nipah. It's as deadly as Ebola but attacks the brain, and it has the potential to spread by mere cough. As NPR's Michaeleen Doucleff reports

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研究证明狗懂得人的情感 Researchers in Hungary have confirmed something many dog owners have long suspected: that canines understand our feelings. 匈牙利的研究人员证实,很多养狗的人长期怀疑的情况,那就是狗能理解

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Mike Procter. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In 2005 many people watched the doc

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BBC News with David Austin. Venezuela says it will withdraw from the Organization of American States, accusing it of trying to meddle in the country's internal affairs. The decision was signaled shortly after the group voted to hold an emergency meet

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Item 10. Vocabulary. eclipse. One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time. There could be no movement because time and movement cannot be separated. A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes, for time a

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About six or seven million years ago chimpanzees and humans evolved from a common primate ancestor. Chimps went on to become the relatively small-brained, forest dwelling creatures we know and love. Humans went on to evolve large brains, spread throu

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary rare: not common irrational: not reasonable classified: grouped by like qualities provoke: to excite or bother a living thing and cause a reaction initiate: to be the one to start something delicacy: a type of food that is ra

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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 vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know tod

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Jacqueline is at the table as Mark slips behind the tent to change his clothes. Suddenly a dark shape appears from behind the brush, heading towards Jacqueline--a black bear. Just as Mark shouts a warning, Jac, bear, the attacker strikes. Blink of an

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Are Cockroaches Actually Useful? The natural History of the Cockroach, on this Moment of Science. For certain species of cockroach, humans make the perfect roommates. Why do cockroaches like living in our houses? And what do they do when theyre not b

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Saudi Arabia Is First Country to Give Citizenship to Robot Saudi Arabia says it has become the first country in the world to grant citizenship to a robot. 沙特自称已经成为全球首个授予机器人公民身份的国家。 The female robots n

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第一套题: ISSUE: College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: When humans fast, our bodies go through a very predictable schedule. Our bodies are great at squirreling away energy in the forms of fat and sugars. But, like coyotes, ideally, wed eat every day

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