Welcome to the Bottom of the World Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest place on Earth. It is also the remotest, a fact which accounts for its unspoiled environment. It is difficult for people to get there, and not a comfortable place for p

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 剑桥英语之常用英语

模仿文本: Exploraton is always bold and always fraught with risk, from Antarctica to the boundaries of space, from President Kennedy's famous speech at Rice University to the conquest of the Moon less than seven years later, from today's intern

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Unit 5 Text A Ernest Shackleton made many great achievements in his life as an explorer. The following story does not tell us, however, what he achieved but how he managed to rescue his men after his

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Scientists are predicting a 110-mile sheet of ice -- a chunk the size of the state of Delaware -- will break off Antarctica in the coming days or weeks. The cause is warming ocean waters, and the ice melt has implications for sea level rise well beyo

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I am at the very center of the great white continent, Antarctica. The South Pole is about half a mile away. For a thousand miles, in all directions, there is nothing but ice. And, in the whole of this

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Researchers say part of a very large shelf of ice on Antarctica could soon break off and become an iceberg. A team of scientists is closely watching part of the Larsen Ice Shelf, off the coast of northwestern Antarctica. The area is connected to land

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Radio, too, carried amusement and information to Little America as easily a s it carried news from Little America to the world. 广播也把娱乐和信息带给了小亚美利加,就像它把小美国的新闻带给了全世界一样。 Sometimes

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Idiom: No question 毫无疑问 Hit the book: Episode Antarctica Destination Naval Expedition Ecological Sensitivity Scenic Hazard Antarctica has become one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. Since 1969, the average number of visitors

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Welcome to the Bottom of the World Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest place on Earth. It is also the remotest, a fact which accounts for its unspoiled environment. It is difficult for peop

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

Prime Minister John Key and his wife flew to Antarctica last night (Friday) for a three-day trip. The plan was for a four-day trip, leaving on Thursday evening but the weather in Antarctica was a problem. So Thursday evening, John Key and his wife we

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The ground here is permafrost, a mixture of soil and ice frozen together. A group of Russian scientists have teamed up with NASA to drill down into it in search of microorganisms. It's work that's bee

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Back from the weekend and ready to bring you the headlines, this is CNN Student News and I'm Carl Azuz. Let's get started. First up, parts of northern California shake off the effects of an earthquake that struck over the weekend. The tremor had a ma

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Tons Of Methane Gas Could Be Trapped Under Antarctica BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Im Bob Doughty. SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: And Im Shirley Griffith. Today, we tell about methane gas thought to be tr

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Do you know what centenary means? It means the 100-year anniversary of something. This week is the centenary of the arrival at the South Pole of the first British explorers , led by Captain Robert Scott. The English word Arctic means the area of the

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New Words: trailer n. 预告片; Antarctica n. 南极洲 penguins n. 企鹅; intrepid adj. 无畏的; spectacle n. 景象;场面;奇观; Flying Penguins 会飞的企鹅 It's a BBC prank, this one was a trailer for a nature documentary exp

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本期内容: As the number of Chinese tourists to Antarctica soared to the No 2 ranking, experts urged the country to speed up legislation on Antarctic travel to protect the environment there as well as tourists' safety and interests. Last year, 5

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【英文原文】 Sometimes the biggest finds are the smallest finds. Researchers examining a segment of siltstone taken from ground along the Beardmore glacier in Antarctica found something unexpected. They found a fly. Well, not exactly a fly. The

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Sleeping next to a 200-foot icefall, walking amongst a colony of 6,000 emperor penguins, and standing at the lowest point on earth... this trip is certainly one for the bucket list. Would-be adventurers with cash to burn can now follow in the footste

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The outline of Gondwana, a once-mighty continent connecting Australia, Africa, Antarctica, and South America, was based in large part on the distribution of a genus of ancient tongue fern called Glossopteris, which was found in all the right places.

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