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Unit 1 Text A Many people often turn a blind eye to the

How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -04

And then came an even more exciting find, in a cave called Lascaux, a gallery of pictures of breathtaking beauty. As more and more paintings came to light, they revealed prehistoric artists had painte

How Art Made The World 人、艺术、世界 -05

Henri Breuil was a French priest, but he was also the foremost expert on cave art for much of the 20th century. He believed, perhaps not surprisingly, that the paintings were about hunting. Prehistori

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Evolving Toward Cancer Is it possible that humans evolved to get cancer? Thats what scientists at Ben Gurion University in Israel claim in a study. They found that the same genetic mutations involved in the evolution of modern humans also gave rise t

走遍全世界66: Athens

Greece is the birthplace of the Olympic Games, and has a long history and cultural background. The history of Athens begins more than 3,000 years ago when during the prehistoric times its first inhabitants created their first settlement on the rock o

侏罗纪搏击俱乐部 第169期:十年间谜团依旧未解

How big an asteroid would it take to distribute this much Iridium around the entire planet? 到底要多大的小行星才能将这么多铱散布在整个星球上？ And they come up with a very rough number of something on the order of ten kilomet

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When Witmer studied the skull, he saw that there were serrated ridges in the teeth. 维特莫研究其颅骨时，看到牙齿里有锯齿状的脊状隆起。 The ridges are remarkably similar to those of another animal with a deadly bite, a Komodo

侏罗纪搏击俱乐部 第153期:被气候变化逐出家园

The fact that Pachyrhinosaurus is found in so many different areas suggests that these dinosaurs had a remarkable ability to adapt to a variety of different environments. 肿鼻角龙在那么多不同的地方被发现，说明这种恐龙对不同环

侏罗纪搏击俱乐部 第51期:一处史前水坑

A prehistoric watering hole. 一处史前水坑。 By using cutting edge technology, some of its fossilized secrets are scientifically decoded. 通过利用前沿科技，它的一些化石秘密如今已经被科学地揭开了。 Multiple species,

侏罗纪搏击俱乐部 第59期:吃了兴奋剂的鹰爪

Of the tens of thousands of fossil remains, only a single Ceratosaurus was found. 在数千具化石遗骸中只有一具属于角鼻龙。 This mid-sized predator did not have the power to cause the damage to the tens of thousands of bones. 这数万块

研究鸵鸟有助于了解恐龙的行动特征(有声)

Ostrich wings, in addition to use in display and thermoregulation, let the giant birds make subtle, quick movements. Which could help researchers better understand the behavior of bipedal dinosaurs Sometimes it seems theres only so much we can learn

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第一套题： ISSUE: College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the

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1. Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half. 2. But it will be the drivers responsibility to make sure that children under 14 do not ride in the front unless they are wearing a seat belt of

英语杂谈：30 Walt Disney's work - part 1

The new family movie Ice Age: The Meltdown is written for laughs. But some people might also see it as a serious message about the dangers of climate warming. The film brings back the animated animals from the two thousand two hit movie Ice Age. The

英语听力：探索发现 2012-09-14 长毛象王国 Mammoth—3

The Yukon and its neighbor, modern-day Alaska, were once part of the land that was Beringia. Stunning though this region is today is just a shadow of the world that was encountered by the First Americans. Underground, the soil is frozen solid, as it

英语听力：探索发现 2012-09-21 长毛象王国 Mammoth—6

In one remarkable discovery recreated here, the head and hide of a large carcass was exposed a unique opportunity for scientists to tap some Ice Age secrets. The remains were of an extinct steppe bison, a longer-horned relative of the North American

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That's just where you're mistaken, professor, Ned replied. 教授；这是因为您搞错了。尼德兰说。 The common man may still believe in fabulous comets crossing outer space, or in prehistoric monsters living at the earth's core, 一般的人

世界小史 第34期:星期

There are seven days in a week. 一星期有七天。 I don't need to tell you their names because you know them already. 我不必告诉你他们的名字因为你已经知道了。 But have you any idea where and when it was that the days were each

《荒野求生》之跟着贝尔去冒险第345期:雄踞食物链之上

I'm Bear Grylls. Whoo! 我是贝尔格里尔斯 I'm gonna show you what it takes to get out alive from some of the most dangerous places on earth. 我将让你知道如何 在地球上最恶劣的环境下 逃出生天 I've got to make it through a w