Whether it was believed to have been a big ball of cheese home to the men in the Moon, or possess the power to turn people into werewolves, the Moon has been a perpetual source of wonder from ancient times to today. Just one quarter the size of Earth

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2008年

The Funniest Jokes in the World by Chris RoseRecently, a group of scientists and psychologists decided to try and find out what the funniest joke in the world was. This was obviously going to be a difficult task, as no two people ever really agree ab

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 英文杂志-Magazine

Steve Inskeep : Here is another installment of StoryCorps, the project that is traveling the country recording interviews between loved ones and friends. These interviews are archived at the Library of Congress and some of them are heard here on Mor

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But it was... what happened was the ...understanding of how to move these things forward, and how to create these new products, somehow evaporated, 他们不懂如何利用新技术,不懂如何创造新产品 and I think a lot of good people stuck

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Deep in the Shady Sadness of a Vale DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eves one star, Sat gray-haird Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest

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To Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818 My dear Woodhouse, The best answer I can give you is in a clerk-like manner to make some observations on two principle points, which seem to point like indices into the midst of the whole pro and con, about geniu

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Images taken by manned spacecraft, robotic space probes Susan Logue Koster | Washington, DC 26 May 2010 Europa (upper right) is one of Jupiter's moons. Jupiters Great Red Spot (left) is a vast cyclonic storm system about two times the size of Earth.

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(五)月

By Paul Sisco Washington 14 September 2007 They are the space probes that will not quit. Many of us are looking to retire after more than 30 years of work. Not NASA's two Voyager spacecraft, racing through interstellar space. VOA's Paul Sisco has mor

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EXPLORATIONS - NASA and the Early Apollo Flights of the 1960s BARBARA KLEIN: I'm Barbara Klein. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. The nineteen sixties were exciting times in space exploration. Today look back

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By David McAlary Washington 01 February 2006 Claims that our solar system has a 10th planet beyond Pluto are supported by a new finding by German and French astronomers. They calculate that it is bigg

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You Live In a Strange Solar System The more astronomers study the heavens, the more they realize: our solar system is weird.There are a few things that make the solar system kind of strange.Lauren Weiss, an astrophysicist at the University of Montrea

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Happy Birthday to Hubble 哈勃望远镜十周岁 Saturn, taken on Hubble's eighth birthday in 1998 (哈勃望远镜在98年第八个生日时拍摄的土星照片) Scientists have been paying tribute to the Hubble telescope, 10 years after it wa

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Huygens Spacecraft Arrives at Saturn Moon “慧更斯”号抵达土星卫星 After a seven-year ride to Saturn on the U.S. Cassini spacecraft, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe is finally at

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Unit 11. Visions of the future. Part 1. Warming up. A. Keywords. businesses, office, transport, advertising. Vocabulary. clerical worker, client. Listen to some predictions some people have made about the business world in the next 20 years or so, ad

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Steve Kitchin demonstrates his prototype invention. With the touch of a button he simply backs the chair in, and the elevator-like lift raises up and slides into the cab. Last spring, Steve Kitchin had had enough. For 10 years since an auto accident

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You're right, professor, he told me after a few moments of silence. This is a separate world. 您说得对,教授,他静默一刻后对我说,它是另一个世界,它跟陆地不相干, It's as alien to the earth as the planets accompanyin

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On the morning of July 16, 1969, Neil and his two fellow Apollo 11 crewmen rose at 4:15 A.M. They had steak and eggs for breakfast, the same breakfast all astronauts had before a flight. The night before a special visitor had arrived for dinner to wi

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THE APOLLO PROGRAM CAME AFTER THE GEMINI PROGRAM. APOLLO SPACECRAFT WERE BIGGER AND BETTER. NASA THOUGHT A MOON LANDING MIGHT HAPPEN IN 1967. THREE ASTRONAUTS WERE CHOSEN FOR THE FIRST APOLLO MISSIONROGER CHAFFEE, GUS GRISSOM, AND ED WHITE, THE KIND

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In March of 1966, Neil Armstrong got his first chance to put his training to the test. He was the command pilot of Gemini 8, which was to dock or connect with another satellite already in space. This was an important step in the goal of reaching the

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复习新托福阅读最好了解一些常考的托福阅读考试背景类型,尤其是学科分类,对于备考新托福阅读非常有帮助。 生物类 群居动物 social animal 独居动物 solitary solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude独特

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