Napoleon 'tried to learn English' 拿破仑流放期间曾热衷于学习英语 Napoleon Bonaparte was keen to learn English while in exile, documents shown in Britain for the first time reveal. The deposed French emperor apparently wanted to learn t

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(110) / 评论(0) 分类 听美文故事记6级单词

After months on awkward shores, they are going home. The young albatross fledglings left behind days ago, rave their engines on their necks, testing the force for the wings and hauling wings that will power them around the world. It is time to fly or

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(227) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2011年

Finally she leaves him some scraps to chew on. A young male arrives, a dangerous situation for the cub. She growls a warning. Its not enough. The cub slips. The mother must get her cub away from danger as quickly as possible. They head north. She kno

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At last, there is hope. They have finally reached the pack-ice that forms the polar icecap. Its the ultimate hunting habitat for polar bears. The icecap stretches all the way to the North Pole. Seals are found wherever it meets the sea. Its been a lo

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The spring season of the latter years of high school are an anxious time when students will , choose one: fall in love, drink too much, or whatever's available, work really hard, slack off, make your hopes soar, dash them to the depth or all of the a

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The first Harry Potter book came out 20 years ago today. And before there were multimillion-dollar movies, Sorting Hat Halloween costumes and temporary tattoos of a lightning scar, there were just two books published in England tha

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In the northwestern United States, the city of Seattle requires its residents to separate food waste from the rest of their trash. The food gets recycled into compost for lawns, gardens and, soon, into electricity. 美国西北地区的西雅图市要求

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The International Organization for Migration reports increasing numbers of stranded migrants are dying on the Yemeni-Saudi border. It says 30 migrants from the Horn of Africa have died in recent weeks. The International Organization for Migration say

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Student Art Showcased Before Move Into Job Market In the days before graduation, Jessica Marx and Alexz Giacobbe are put the finishing touches on a project theyve been working on for months. Jessica, a photography major, made the hats for their fashi

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In the northwestern United States, the city of Seattle requires its residents to separate food waste from the rest of their trash. The food gets recycled into compost for lawns, gardens and, soon, into electricity. Every day, at Cedar Grove Compostin

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 06 September 2006 watch report Green Business Many companies are learning they can be both pro-business and pro-environment without hurting the bottom line. In fact, for some, it's been quite profitable. ----- Being envi

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Perhaps no American writer is more associated with a place than Henry David Thoreau. And that, by the way, is the family pronunciation. In 1845, Thoreau went into the woods near Concord, Mass., at Walden Pond. He built a small ca

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In Northern Canada, winter slowly loosens its grip, and a young polar bear is hungry. It sniffs a meal already in progress, and decides to play a dangerous game, a food snatch. His opponent is larger, older, and wont tolerate a rival. A second try, h

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Most people don't expect the house cool from these beetles, but we should be thankful for their services. They can smell dead flesh from a staggering three kilometers away. When they find the corpse, they dress it first, coating it * and oral fluids

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...and may trace their ancestry all the way back to the first dogs to enter North America. The Carolina dogs are pack animals with a strick hierarchy topped by an alpha male. Like most wild dogs, they hunt in groups. But many of the kills they make a

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In the immortal words of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, My father always taught me: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Perhaps no creature has taken this advice more literally then the remora, also known as the sucker fish

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Syrian Kurdish Refugees Fear Harsh Winter in Northern Iraq 叙利亚库尔德难民担心在伊拉克北部严寒的冬天 ERBIL, IRAQ Hundreds of thousands of Syrians, mostly Kurds, have fled into northern Iraq, many living in abandoned houses in th

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 March 2008 The battle between two rival high definition formats for video disks has been decided in favor of Blu-ray, which was jointly developed by Sony, Samsung, Philips and other companies. Mike O'Sullivan reports

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Onions Are Toxic to Your Pets 洋葱是宠物杀手? You may already know that chocolate can be lethal to your pet, but did you know that onions can be toxic to your cats and dogs too? And Im not just talking about their breath. You see all forms o

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Males Rule in Costa Rican Wasp Species 哥斯达黎加父系制度的黄蜂 In most species of social insects, such as wasp s , bees, and ants, the females rule. The females are the workers. They are the ones to go out and get the food, and they are

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