Lesson 61 Trouble with the Hubble哈勃望远镜的困境 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 What is the special importance of a telescope in space? T h

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Hubble's Dazzling Mission Nears Its End 哈勃太空望远镜使命渐入尾声 The Hubble Space Telescope has changed the way we see the universe. For almost a quarter of a century, it has sent vast amounts of data and images from space. A new exhib

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The next morning, Adam turned on the radio. The fire had spread to 350 acres, and 550 homes had been evacuated. More than 400 fire fighters were busy in the foothills. The winds had really picked up overnight. Fire officials declared that the fire wa

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美国航天局倾力寻找生命之星 For decades, looking for life elsewhere in the universe meant listening for signals that could be from distant civilizations. But recent breakthroughs in space technology refocused some of that effort toward fi

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A few days later, Duke and Bo drove a few miles out of town where there were no electrical wires. They used fishing line to secure 50 balloons to the lawn chair. The chair was secured to the truck. They filled up all the balloons. The balloons were a

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Bill told Jimi to look up at the ridge, near the park. Bill thought he saw flames. Jimi went outside with his binoculars. He could see a suspicious glow. Using the binoculars, he could see flames. God damn it! he yelled. He called Bill back. Then he

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1. The body of Coretta Scott King was carried by horse-drawn carriage Saturday morning to the Georgia's state Capitol where she is the first black person and the first woman to lie in honor. The widow

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A: Dan, Dan, dude. You have to come over to my house right now! B: Is everything OK? A: Just get over here! A: Come in! Quickly! B: So, since when is your house a bank? A: What do you mean? B: I mean, whats up with the locks and iron bars on your w

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Technology Report - Is NASAs James Webb Space Telescope a Time Machine? This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. If you could build a time machine, what would it look like? Maybe, it should look like a telescope. American scientists are bui

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NASA Focuses on Earth-Like Planets 美国国家航空航天局寻找类地行星 For decades, looking for life elsewhere in the universe meant listening for signals that could be from distant civilizations. But recent breakthroughs in space technolog

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Samantha, like many renters, is tired of renting. One reason is that her annual rent goes up like clockwork. Every year her landlord raises the rent five percent. Another reason is her neighbors. New neighbors always seem to be more inconsiderate tha

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David Penny, a world-famous magician who can make elephants and locomotives disappear, is being investigated by the FBI. A woman charged him with sexual assault while she was visiting him on his private island, about 50 miles northeast of Puerto Rico

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One morning when the wind was from the west, Stuart put on his sailor suit and his sailor hat, took his spyglass down from the shelf, and set out for a walk, full of the joy of life and the fear of dogs. 一天早上,当风从西边刮过来时,斯

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She called his name. Then she said hello loud and slow. He said, My name's not Hello. When are you going to learn that? He went into the living room. She asked him to close the blinds. She was getting dressed. She was afraid that people across the st

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Where else would the world's biggest dinosaur live, but in the world's trendiest town? Live may be stretching it a bit. Brachiosaurus brancai has been dead for 150 million years, but he remains impressive, towering more than 13 meters over visitors t

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Searching the Heavens for Mountains In the last few decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars. Now, scientists want to know what they look like. Do they have oceans? Atmospheres? Researchers have even searched

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way to the basketball game at the weekend, we stopped at a restaurant for dinner. The consensus was that we wanted asian food. So, as we drove along, half of us in the car looked out in one direction, and the rest of us looked in the other, until som

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