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Passage 48 Population Growth It is well-known that there has been a drastic increase in world population. But it is probably less well-known that the extinction rate of wildlife species is experiencing a parallel trend. Take the United States for in

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Queuing like school children, these penguins are waiting to receive the life-saving medicines and nutrition. They owe their lives to SANCCOB, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds. SANCCOB responded to a call for help

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Most of our players have kept up the habits that they learned in this game. 大部分的游戏玩家保留了他们在游戏中形成的习惯 So, for the next world-saving game, 在接下来的一款拯救世界的游戏里 we decided to aim higher:

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EMMA Volume One by Jane Austen CHAPTER XVII Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley were not detained long at Hartfield. The weather soon improved enough for those to move who must move; and Mr. Woodhouse having, as usual, tried to persuade his daughter to stay

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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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In the same yearin fact, the same monththat the aristocratic and celebrated Cuvier was propounding his extinction theories in Paris, on the other side of the English Channel a rather more obscure Englishman was having an insight into the value of fos

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本期内容： Scientists have captured the first footage in the wild of one of the world's rarest - and ugliest - pigs. The Javan warty pig is under such threat from hunting and habitat loss that conservationists surveying its habitat believed it m

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1. This may not be the reception Mitt Romney was hoping for. The Republican presidential candidate was booed at the NAACP's annual meeting today when he pledged to repeal what he called ObamaCare. 2. Senate Democrats have blocked a pair of votes on e

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Some animals absolutely prospered including, a little surprisingly, the turtles once again. 有的动物再次一片兴旺的景象包括鳖，真有点儿令人感到意外。 As Flannery notes, the period immediately after the dinosaur extinction c

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Ten years ago, I wrote a book which I entitled Our Final Century? Question mark. My publishers cut out the question mark. (Laughter) The American publishers changed our title to Our Final Hour. Americans like instant gratification and the reverse. (L

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What was most surprising, however, was that there were so many body designs that had failed to make the cut, so to speak, and left no descendants. 然而，最令人吃惊的是，如此之多的体形，打个比方说，却缺少深度、没有留下

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Anyway, getting sick is a sensible response to infection. 生病正是对感染的一种能感觉到的反应。 Sick people retire to their beds and thus are less of a threat to the wider community. 病人躺在病床上，因此减少了对更多人的

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Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favor of the gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, 而且，正确地考虑一番，似乎也还提供不出任何论据，足以证明抹香鲸会逐渐趋于灭亡，比如说， th

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Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, 再把这种长着背峰的鲸群跟那长着背峰的野牛群比较一番吧， which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri

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For people in the cities, the simple beauty offered by a floating butterfly vanished long ago. In the valleys of Yunnan province in the southwest of China, explosions of brightly colored butterflies were a common spectacle. But even there, butterflie

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Not only did these hardy people manage to exist through the long cold spells which killed many ferocious animals, but when the earth became warm and comfortable once more,prehistoric man had learned a number of things which gave him such great advant