SUMMARY: After their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion Katniss and Peeta become targets of the government. DIRECTOR: Francis Lawrence WRITER: Suzanne Collins (book) Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt (screenplay) STARRING: Jennifer Law

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英文阅读

You may have thought that the age of exploration was over. But you would be wrong. The world is a big place and even in this modern age we are still finding hidden cornersplaces untouched by humans. Thanks to our modern age exploring has become a lot

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 轻松英文阅读

Nanotyrannus is one of my very favourite dinosaurs. 矮暴龙是我非常喜欢的一种恐龙。 The name actually means pigmy tyrant. 它的名字意思其实是小暴君。 And it's pretty aptly named because this was a one mean dinosaur. 这名字挺

发表于:2018-12-28 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 侏罗纪搏击俱乐部

February the 12th is Darwin Day. It is to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809 and his life as a scientist. This day also aims to encourage children to get into science. Darwin was one of the worlds greatest s

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Disappearing Forests The world's forests are disappearing.As much as one third of the total tree cover has been lost.Since agriculture began some ten thousand years ago.The remaining forests are home to half of the world's species,thus becoming the c

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Sexual selection and evolution 性选择与进化 My pretty maid 美丽的雌性 A glamorous raiment sometimes helps a female bird as much as it helps a male 华丽的外表有时给雌性的益处和雄性一样多 HOW the peacock got his tail is on

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I don't care what you wanted from us. 我不在乎你想从我们这里得到什么 There must have been a way to get it peacefully. 肯定能通过和平的办法得到 You didn't even try to talk to us before the attack. 你在攻击之前甚至没尝

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> 58 菌类植物产生于几十亿年前 DATE=8/24/01 TITLE=ENVIRONMENT REPORT - Early Plant Study BYLINE=Cynthia Kirk (Start at 1’00” )This is Bill White with the VOA Special English ENVIRONM

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 自然探索

Prehistoric people may have hunted and killed other members of their own species and eaten them, but probably not for food. That is what a new study written by James Cole of the University of Brighton in England says. Cole says compared to large anim

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Scientists who study primates say that we are moving towards a time when species like gorillas will no longer be found in the wild . They say Orangutans would be gone too. And Madagascar would lose its lemurs. Jo Setchell is a primatologist at Durham

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(三)月

初中英语可数名词知识点(一) 1.可数名词 可数名词一般可以分成以下三类: 第一类:如bike,desk, factory等,这类名词占可数名词的多数。以bike为例: There are fifty bikes at this shop.这家商店有5

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英文语法词汇

Soon we will be in a position to go forth in the field with sequencers on our backs to hunt bacteria in tiny crevices of the habitat's surface, 不久的将来,我们还将可以通过便携式的测序机完成这样的操作,直接寻找到那些隐

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Conservationists are overestimating the number of species that have been driven to extinction(消失), scientists have said. A study has found that a third of all mammal species declared extinct in the past few centuries have turned up alive and well

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Evolution continues today, and sometimes we can watch it happening. Researchers in the November 6th edition of the journal Science say that they caught in the act a population of butterflies in Ecuador potentially diverging into two distinct species.

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十一)月

Music is known to make us happy, or calm, or sad. But do other animals respond to dulcet tones, as well? In studies, our primate cousins prefer silence to our music. But maybe we were playing the wrong tune. Psychologist Charles Snowdon and musician

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(九)月

Many of our medicines originate in plants. But were not the only ones who tap into nature.Theres increasing evidence that some animals seek out specific plants for their medicinal qualities. A new study shows that monarch butterflies may be among the

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When your kids misbehave, maybe you tell them to stop acting like chimps. Well, that would be an insult to the familiar common chimp, Pan troglodytes, which actually grows up pretty fast. Now bonobos, the other chimp species, or Pan paniscus, enjoy h

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(二)月

This is Scientific American 60 Second Science, I am Christopher Intagliata, got a minute. Scientists discover new species all the timeon the order of 15,000 a year. One of the latest additions to the tree of life is a new type of leopard frog. Which

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Whales 鲸鱼 Whales are very large mammals and they living in the sea. 鲸鱼是生活在海里的巨大哺乳动物。 They breathe air into their lungs. 它们把空气吸入肺里。 They feed their babies milk and they have some hair too. 它们给

发表于:2019-01-10 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 与美国小学生一起学英文第5册

VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. On our program this week, we will tell how fishing for sharks may affect other sea animals. We will also tell about a newly identified

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(五)月