1) Exhilarating Rides-Top 2) Roller Coasters in Europe Number 3, it’s Shock Wave, Europe’s only stand up roller coaster. It’s in the English Midlands. Shock Wave is a 3) cracking 90 seconds. Fir

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(293) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

July 13th, 1985. Here're hours to go in this Live Aid show in Philadelphia, and it looks if no one is leaving early. Live Aid, a global rock concert to raise money for starving people in Africa, takes place in London and Philadelphia. The mammoth eve

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 历史上的今天-2011年

Thousands on the eastern seaboard emerged to a sunny winter's day following a mammoth snowstorm that dropped near-record snowfall across several major US cities Saturday. The number of death blamed on the storm had reached at least 29. A magnitude 7.

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2016(一)月

The state of Florida is best known for its beaches and swaying palm trees. But a good chunk of it is swampland. The famous Everglades, a slow-moving sheet of water full of plants and alligators, cover much of the southern part of the state. To the no

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

Many of the people who go to Florida stop on their trip to see sights, 许多前往佛罗里达的人们会在中途停下来欣赏风景, and one of the greatest sights is in Virginia and Kentucky where the rock under the ground is all limestone. 而

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(158) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

Every day people come to soak in Hot Creek, a place to rest, created by geologic unrest. Sudden geyser eruptions, driven by heat from magma below the Earth surface, can change water temperatures so fast that going into the water is not recommended.

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(92) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2008年

Volcanic gases escape from the magma . They percolate through the earth crust and into the atmosphere. Professional geologist, Charles Watson, investigates the risks at Horseshoe Lake close to Mammoth's main resort. There is a quiet, silent killer th

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(170) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

Ice Age Plant Survives To Modern Day Like a science fiction time traveler, an arctic plant of the late Pleistocene age, over thirty one thousand years old, is growing again after a long frozen sleep. History Narrow leafed campion (Silene stenophylla)

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

By Alan Silverman Hollywood 02 April 2006 It's back to prehistoric times for a sequel to the 2002 computer-animated family film that featured a grumpy mammoth and his traveling companions: a quick-wit

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The new family movie Ice Age: The Meltdown is written for laughs. But some people might also see it as a serious message about the dangers of climate warming. The film brings back the animated animals from the two thousand two hit movie Ice Age. The

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This is AP news minute. 1. Police responded to a shooting at the UCLA campus and officials have reported that there are two victims who were shot and killed. The campus is on lock-down. 2. Egyptian officials say a French ship has picked up signals fr

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Johannesburg 24 May 2010 In Zimbabwe, a meeting aimed at launching a process of national reconciliation has been aborted after chaos erupted over delegate accreditation. Organizers of the opening meeting of Zimbabwe's Organ for National Healing, Reco

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Come with us on a journey inside the Earth. Well, inside a special layer in the Earth. A quarter of the Northern Hemisphere is covered with what's called permafrost, and for the first time in centuries, the permafrost is beginning

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Every day people come to soak in Hot Creek, a place to rest, created by geologic unrest. Sudden geyser eruptions, driven by heat from magma below the Earth surface, can change water temperatures so fast that going into the water is not recommended. B

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In one remarkable discovery recreated here, the head and hide of a large carcass was exposed a unique opportunity for scientists to tap some Ice Age secrets. The remains were of an extinct steppe bison, a longer-horned relative of the North American

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

The answer lies in the effects of North Americas immense and fluctuating ice sheets. As they grew, they locked up so much water that the sea levels began to fall. The Bering Sea between Asia and North America began to drain away, leaving a bridge of

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At its maximum, the ice covered nearly six million square miles. And in places, it was up to two miles thick. The ice blanket was punctuated only by occasional islands of rock, the peaks of the very highest mountains. Though Beringia itself remained

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

Small ears also help to minimize heat loss, the opposite effect of those huge heat-dispersing ears of their relatives, African elephants. Other Beringia animals have more than a fur coat to help them cope with cold. This skull belongs to the bizarre-

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It's taken China more than 35 years to embrace its most famous son. 中国花了35年才完全接受她这个最负盛名的儿子 The mammoth series has become the most watched TV drama in the channel's history,and incredibly, the techniques used in

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10ThisAge Birdssang.Theairwassoftandwarm. Ihopetheyfindtheircoats,saidAnnie. Metoo,saidJack.Hepushedhisglassesintoplace. Squeak. Hey,youhowdidyoufindthesorcerer?AnnieaskedPeanut. Squeak. Itsasecret,huh?saidAnnie.SheturnedtoJack.Wherestheflute

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