Koko, the gorilla who became famous for learning sign language, has died in the United States. The California-based Gorilla Foundation that kept and studied Koko announced that she had passed away in her sleep on Tuesday. She was 46 years old. Koko t

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(六)月

It is not easy to excite New Yorkers. This is one reason why actors and other famous people move to the city. They can live quieter lives and escape the paparazzi photographers who would follow them in Hollywood. But New York has a new media star. An

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Do Bats Hold the Secret to Long Life? Bats are the only mammals that can fly a great distance, but they have another ability. Many bats live a very long time for an animal their size. European researchers are studying bats to understand why they live

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Animals at Risk from Increased Arctic Shipping The polar bear may be the animal most often identified with climate change, but it is far from the only creature at risk from rising temperatures. The northernmost part of Earth is warming two to three t

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'Human' Remains Found in Ethiopia Said to Be Up to Four Million Years Old 埃塞俄比亚发现四百万年前人类遗迹 The team of scientists from the Cleveland , Ohio Museum of Natural History re

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New Orangutan Species Discovered in Indonesia Scientists say they have discovered a new species of orangutans on Indonesias island of Sumatra. 科学家表示,他们在印尼的苏门答腊岛上发现了一种新的猩猩物种。 The population d

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21 布什政府关于稀有物种法案的提议 DATE=4/27/01 TITLE=ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Bush Proposal for Endangered Species Act BYLINE=Cynthia Kirk (start at 0'55

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ARE WE WNDANGERED? steve jones is an environmental expert who tries to keep animals and plants from becoming endanged,we are not alone in the world. we human beings could not survuve without all the plants and animals around us. we often talk about h

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This years observance of World Environment Day shines a much-needed spotlight on the illegal trade in wildlife. There is grave cause for alarm. Elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory, rhinos for their horns, and pangolins for their scales. F

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代词作主语时的一致 each, either, neither和由some, any, no, every构成的复合代词,都作单数看待. Each of us has something to say. Is everybody ready? Somebody is using the phone. Neither of us has gone through regular training. Ha

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新GRE写作机经:社会与自然 Society should make efforts to save endangered species only if thepotential extinction of those species is the result of human activities. 社会应该努力拯救濒危物种,只要这些物种的灭绝是人类活

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LIFE IN THE OCEAN The earths oceans can reach depths of up to 11,000 metres.That is deep enough to cover Mt Qomolangma! The oceans are incredibly large and contain several different habitats.To make it easier to describe the various parts of the

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Doug Johnson. November twenty-fourth marked the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential books ever written. Naturalist Charles

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AS IT IS 2016-10-06 Wildlife Convention Protects Animals Great and Small Delegates from around the world met this week in Johannesburg, South Africa to discuss how to stop the trade in endangered animals. Representatives from 183 countries attended t

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AS IT IS 2015-01-09 Science Fiction Becomes Reality for Species Surveys 科幻变成现实的物种调查 Many science fiction stories tell about explorers arriving in a new world. The explorers then use some kind of high-tech device to test for brea

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We move to the third stage, where we only give them a coin. 我们开始了第三阶段的训练。只把一枚硬币留在机器上。 Now, like most of us who have gotten used to a good thing, this really pisses them off. 此时乌鸦飞过来,看到

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And in doing so, we were breeding them for parasitism. 为了做到这点,人类用喂养的方式来让它们寄生于我们。 We were giving them all sorts of reasons to adapt new ways. 我们给了动物们适应新环境的各种理由。 So,

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埃博拉疫苗试验在西非进行 Ebola has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people in West Africa. Since last summer, researchers have rushed to get anti-Ebola vaccines into clinical trials. While it's too early to say that any of the potent

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Some of these mountains in northern Mozambique have never been studied by scientists until now. The British government funded Darwin Initiative has sponsored a series of expeditions to five northern Mozambique(莫桑比克) mountains. Scientists have

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The Census of Marine Life has released the most comprehensive inventory life in the ocean today. Its an unprecedented database of marine species living in 25 key ocean areas around the world. The findings published in the open access scientific journ

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