17.Evolution of sleep Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may extend back as far as the reptiles. There is some evidence that the two types of s

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(641) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念优美背诵短文50篇

These holes are the unmistakable hallmark of a violent death. Their shape suggest they were made by the teeth of a big cat, but which one? Today theres only one large cat in the region, the Florida panther. Though similar to the cougar at the western

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[Songbird and traffic noise] It's hard to be a bird in our human-dominated world. You can barely hear yourself sing, let along hear the songs of your friends and you can forget about hearing a predator. Noise is almost everywhere. Especially noise fr

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Small carnivoreslike foxes or raccoons or badgersare themselves prey for larger predatorslike wolves. So they spend time hiding instead of hunting. This influence that big predators have on their ecosystem is called a landscape of fear. But humans ar

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Further south still, unstooped, shrouded figures end the flat monotony of the Tundra. This is the tree line, the first place on our journey with sufficient warmth and liquid water to enable a tree to grow。 Surviving here is so crushingly difficult

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This trail leads to the cave and the freshly dead bison, just out of reach. Hunger makes the bear risk everything. He falls and joins the bison in its tomb. Now he can eat his fill. but after that there's no way out. ln time he'll be just one more ic

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Larger than any lion alive today, this would have been an awesome predator. These caves were probably its winter den. With such abundant game down on the plains, this hunter's life must have been pretty good. Sheer size and power and the benefit of l

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Meanwhile, the ground sloth, like the mastodons, must eat most of the day to fuel its huge bulk. This may be the ice age, but by midday, temperatures soar, drawing another predator to the spring to drinkthe notorious saber-toothed cat. Most creatures

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大家每天都用用纸巾擦手,但是你是否想过,其实你可能一直都没有正确的使用擦手纸。在这个既具启发性又具趣味的小演讲中,乔史密斯给我们展示了怎样完美使用擦手纸的方法。

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Somebody To Love For you i'd write a symphony 我愿意为你谱写一曲交响乐 I'd tell the violin 我想告诉小提琴 It's time to sink a swim 这不是计较得失的时候 Watchn' play for yaaaa! 和你观看和表演 For you i'd be 为了你我

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在《80岁的自己给出的建议》一书中,艺术家苏珊奥马利让7岁到88岁的普通人给未来(或者过去)的自己一些指导性建议。 在这个项目结束后不久,奥马利就不幸离世。她曾经说过,书中每个

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Wilder protected areas get eight billion visitors a year, and that's just on land. Underwater reserves? add a million to the tally, which, considering these are protected areas, seems like an insane number of people. It isn't insane. Dane Blumstaine,

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The strike of a great white shark lasts a mere second. Slowing it down forty times reveals the technique and immense strength of this massive predator. If surprise fails, there will be a chase. The shark is faster on a straight course, but it cant tu

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This is in Africa rarely seen, a lush water world. Some creatures are completely at home here. These are lechwe, antelope with hooves that splay widely enabling them to move at speed through the water. For others, the change is far less welcome. Babo

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Colombian mammoths had to feed almost round the clock to fuel their bulky bodies. But as the ice age ended, food was not the mammoths' biggest problem. A new and deadly predator began to infiltrate the plains, a match for any prey, even the mighty ma

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I think its a very beautiful idea that you have this little egg thats surprisingly small and out of it comes a baby sauroposeidon thats about the size of a rabbit and in two or three decades, its gonna be a 50-ton adult. But why does this huge animal

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Male lions defend their cubs against rivals who see their offspring as future competition for food and mates. So its likely that an intelligent predator like T-Rex would do the same. Compared to prehistoric plant eaters, its cerebrum, the part of the

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1.Clear the air 消除误会 To settle a dispute and restore good relations Example: We had a meeting with the workers, and I think weve cleared the air now。 2.Be in the air 将要发生的事情 The feeling or idea that something new is about to h

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英语简历并无固定不变的单一形式,应聘者完全可以根据个人的具体情况来确定采用何种形式,灵活设计。一般来说,根据个人经历的不同侧重点,可以选用以下三种形式: (1) 以学历为主

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1. Organise your life 第一步:组织好你的经历 In functional CVs, you put your skills into categories then briefly list past job titles at the bottom. These are suitable for those who have been unemployed for long periods, held different typ

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