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发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(201) / 评论(0) 分类 情景英语口语100主题

In the Southeast Asian country of India, exhausts from old cars and motorcycles, pollutions from industries, dust smoke from cooking and fires from when farmers burn their crops double, all of this contributes to the toxic air pollution in the Indian

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年11月

Qantas has given the green light for flights to take off from London. Earlier this morning, passengers were stranded as flights were cancelled or delayed for more than ten hours because of a new threat from volcanic ash. Airlines are putting on extra

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年

First story takes us to the South Pacific nation of New Zealand, where a powerful earthquake jolted the country's south island just after midnight on Monday. A little more than a million people live in the south island and though earthquakes are comm

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2016年11月

What country has more historically active volcanoes than any other? 历史上哪个国家活火山最多? United States, Indonesia, Japan or Philippines? 美国、印尼、日本还是菲律宾? According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are more

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年5月

美国阿拉斯加发生7.9级地震 已发布海啸预警 AZUZ: Just after midnight on Tuesday, the earth jolted beneath the Gulf of Alaska. This is a Pacific body of water surrounded by southern Alaska. The earthquake that hit there was powerful, m

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2018年2月

Greek Island Shows Signs Of Volcanic Unrest Fira is a typical Greek city overlooking the Aegean Sea. Sitting atop a twelve hundred foot cliff on Santorini Island, its an ideal vacation spot. But this island wasnt always a paradise. Thirty five hundre

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力文摘 English Digest

Our climb continued. The gradients got steeper and narrower. Sometimes they were cut across by deep pits that had to be cleared. 我们继续往上走。石径愈来愈难走,愈来愈狭窄。有根深的空洞时时把路径切断,我们必须跳

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 《海底两万里》中英双语有声读物

Rangers Watch Over America's Protected Sites 国家公园管理员照管美国的历史遗迹 It was called The Yellowstone Act, a law passed by Congress in 1872 that created Americas first national park. 在1872年国会通过的被称为黄石法的这

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(四月)

Unusual Mars Rock Surprises Rover Scientists Curiosity's engineers on Earth put the drilling and sampling tools on the rover's robotic arm to full use this week as they assessed the makeup of the pyramid-shaped rock. The sample is named Jake Matijevi

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十月)

Large Impacts May Cause Volcanic Eruptions巨大冲击引发火山喷发 Other rocky planets in our solar system show a common feature: within giant craters caused by impacts theres evidence of volcanic activity. Which made scientists wondercan big i

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年Scientific American(六)月

A volcano that started erupting on one of the Galapagos Islands last week may be changing the landscape of the island. According to the Associated Press, rangers and tour guides spotted lava flowing down the northeastern flank of the Cerro Azul Volca

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2008年

Glatsmire's model shows that the magnetic poles swap places spontaneously due to / complex processes within the core. We were used to the idea that a compass points somewhere near the North Pole and hence we can use it for navigation, but there are p

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2011年

As these robot submarines accomplish great missions, the possibility of one day melting our way into Europas deep ocean is moving from fiction toward fact. Lets just imagine, there were on a little spacecraft with the capability to melt to the ice, w

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

Are we alone ?And it ties into all the big questions: how do we get here ? where are we going ?Are we a part of a bigger picture? But for the longest time ,the question was taboo to science . Before the Mid-1990s ,it was considered somewhat embarassi

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2010年

The canyon has power and attraction compelling the visitor to gaze into its depth. These few points to a time when rainfall here would be significantly greater and the river evermore able to cover its channel through the granite landscape. This volca

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2013年

Really, its a balance between the size of the object, its speed into the atmosphere and critically the altitude at which it explodes. Too high, if its too small and it explodes too high, the shockwave has little effect on the ground. If its quite low

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2014年

Data from the first flyby of the planet Mercury in January of 2008 by the spacecraft MESSENGER are reported in eleven papers this week in the journal Science. The findings reveal new details about the solar system's smallest planet 77 million kilome

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(七月)

And thats the first time; it was return black-and-white panoramas of the Venus surface. These images were extremely important, because it was the first time, we ,human beings had a chance to see with our naked eyes completely different other world. W

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 自然百科2012年

Tortoise Not Seen for Over 110 Years Found on Galapagos Island A kind of tortoise not seen in more than 110 years has been found in the Galapagos Islands. 加拉帕戈斯群岛发现了一种110多年未见的乌龟。 A female from a species known a

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