The American space agencys lander InSight is to arrive on Mars Monday. The event will mark the space agencys return to the planet. Unlike NASAs Curiosity rover, which arrived in 2012, InSight will not move across the planets surface. Instead it will

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(366) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

Mountain Birds Will Die Out as Planet Warms Scientists have recreated a 1985 study of birds in Peru that shows climate change is pushing them from their natural environment. 科学家再现了1985年在秘鲁进行的一项鸟类研究,这次研究表

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We talked last week about ways to avoid cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment of hypothermia. Hypothermia can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild hypothermia is something that most people in cold climates have expe

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Section 9. Small talk Talking about the weather. 谈论天气 Wow, Is winter always this cold in Taiwan? 台湾的冬天总是这么冷吗? Not really. It's much warmer usually. Your are not used to cold weather? 不见得,通常暖和多了.你不习惯

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AS IT IS 2015-09-18 Palestinians Turn Organic Waste into Gas for Cooking 巴勒斯坦人将有机废物转化成天然气做饭 Rural communities in developing countries often have trouble securing dependable supplies ofenergy for cooking and lightin

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High-Tech Material Cools Buildings, Sends Heat Into Space 高新技术材料给建筑降温,将热量送入太空 Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new material that can move heat out of buildings and into space. The researchers say

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Join us for another edition of Travelling with STU-pid as we take a trip to a seafood market in Fuzhou, Fujian, and take a look at some of the interesting things you can find along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Route Economic Belt.

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At the teachers' meeting, Raymond said, It's summer time, but my students are freezing. You could hang beef in my classroom. My students come from the hot, humid summer air into my icy classroom. The temperature change is making some of them sick. Th

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Temperatures in the outback of Australia have been known to reach up to 57 degrees Celsius. Thats over 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Its unbearably hot. And the search-and-rescue guys say if someone is dropped into the middle of that, with nothing, no wate

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意大利一名企业家发明了披萨自动贩卖机,顾客每次只需要等待3分钟,便可吃到新鲜出炉的披萨。 当客人付款下单后,这款披萨自动贩卖机便自动混和面粉和水,放到烤炉上压成饼底,然后在

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A strong cold front is affecting most of China. Temperatures in northwest China and Inner Mongolia have fallen by 6 to 12 degrees Celsius, while freezing temperatures have been recorded in the northeast. 一股强寒流正在影响中国大部分地区

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First official draft for a deal at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen says the world should at least halve world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The blueprint was released as European leaders pledged over $10 billion to help poor countries cop

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China's national observatory renewed its orange alert for cold wave- the second highest level - on Sunday evening. Sun jun, chief forecaster of the National Meteorological Center, says the strong cold front is linked with the activity of the polar vo

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台湾籍旅美老师今天交给我们的句子是: My mind still works in Celsius sometimes. It's really helpful for us to have the conversion function. 我还是比较习惯用摄氏温度,所以换算功能真的很实用。

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Step by Step 3000. Book Two. Unit 10. News 2. Health. Part 1. Warming up. A. Keywords. building, department. Vocabulary. outpatient, physician, roundabout, ward, administrative, dispensary, surgery. You're going to hear some information about the lay

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This extra jostling pushes the atoms farther apart, causing the whole substance to slightly increase in size. If the substance cools off, its atoms stop pushing against each other so vigorously. This makes the substance shrink again. This connection

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Have you ever seen an old-fashioned ice cream maker? Nestled inside a wooden bucket, there's a metal canister with a hand crank on top. Cranking the handle scrapes the sweet, creamy mixture from the sides of the metal canister, which sits in a bath o

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Less use of air conditioners would be better for us all A strict no-air-conditioning ban was enforced for 87,000 Taiwanese students taking the college entrance examinations this month despite temperatures in many areas reaching 34 to 36 degrees Celsi

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Cells and Temperature Cells cannot remain alive outside certain limits of temperature, and much narrower limits mark the boundaries of effective functioning. Enzyme systems of mammals and birds are most efficient only within a narrow range around 37 ℃

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 双语有声阅读

Voice 1 Hello, Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Ruby Jones. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 A tall man stands s

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