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By Gary Garriott Broadcast: September 15, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. 1)Clay is found almost everywhere in the world. It is formed by the action of wind

CNN 2011-05-28

Today ,we ask for your thoughts on athletic ability ,today we are gonna share some of your opinions and tackle another controvercial sports story.But we start on Capitol Hill.That's where members of both Houses of Congress held a meeting to hear a sp

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By using cutting edge technology and every available piece of fossil evidence, 60-million-year-old mysteries have forensically decoded. 通过最新的科技和每一块相关的化石证据，六千万年的谜团水落石出。 From their ability t

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Pockets of sub surface gas will build up and eventually burst through Pluto's frozen surface as geysers, Will G demonstrates how even a small increase in temperature produces a large geyser. Okay,we're going to put liquid nitrogen into this plastic b

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(Woman) Today I want to talk about the Earth's last major climatic shift, at the end of the last ice age. But first, let's back up a moment and review what we know about climatic change in general. First, we defined climate as consistent patterns of

SSS 2009-09-17

The early Earths oceans were home to a lot of interesting chemistry. Now scientists have found that amino acids thought to be present way back when could have been cooked into other compounds vital for lifean idea you should take with a grain of salt

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Sand 沙子 If you look around you, you can find sand very easily. 你若环顾四周，就很容易发现沙子。 Sand comes from rocks. 沙子源自岩石。 Each grain of sand is less than 2 millimeters in diameter. 每粒沙子的直径小于两毫

VOA慢速英语2016--朝鲜火山或爆发

AS IT IS 2016-04-19 North Korean Volcano Waiting to Blow 朝鲜火山或爆发 A volcano in North Korea is at risk of erupting, according to scientists. Scientists say Mount Paektu, on the border of North Korea and China, had one of the largest erupt

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You know, thats kind of a manageable temperature. Ive got to get in fast and if I dont get these wet clothes off, my body will get into shock. In this wind, they should hopefully dry in maybe a couple of hours. But at least during that time I can lie

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The little prince was still not satisfied. 小王子仍然还不满足， If I owned a silk scarf, he said, 他说，对我来说，如果我有一条围巾， I could put it around my neck and takeit away with me. 我可以用它来围着我的脖子，

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BBC News Scientists think they have found a smart way to constrain carbon dioxide emissions - just turn them to stone. The researchers report an experiment in Iceland where they have pumped CO2 and water underground into volcanic rock. Reactions with

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After six days of being grounded aeroplanes have been given the all-clear to fly in British airspace again. The UK has effectively been a no-fly zone since last Thursday when a huge cloud of volcanic ash was thrown up into the atmosphere by a volcano

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The obvious risk of this happening to crowded passenger planes in British airspace was enough for the UK's Civil Aviation Authority to enforce a total ban on flights a move which was mirrored by other northern European countries. The dangers of flyin

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And in between there's everything you could possibly imagine. 介于二者之间的东西应有尽有，只要你想得出来。 I've never been any place where geology is more evidentor prettier. 我从来没有见过哪个地方，地质情况是如此

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14 The Fire Below 第十四章 地下的烈火 In the summer of 1971, a young geologist named Mike Voorhies was scouting around on some grassy farmland in eastern Nebraska, 1971年夏，一位名叫迈克沃里斯的年轻地质学家在内布拉斯加

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The first Anderson or Witzke learned of this setback to their careers was when they arrived at a conference in South Dakota 这对他们的事业是个挫折。安德森和威策克最初听到这个消息是在他们出席南达科他州的一次会议

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He insisted that the iridium had been deposited by volcanic action, 他坚持认为，铱是由火山活动沉积的， even while conceding in a newspaper interview that he had no actual evidence of it. 即使他在一次记者采访中承认，他拿

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现在，我们拿GRE阅读NO题的NO8-1这篇文章做一个示范，来说明一下怎样提高新GRE阅读能力。 NO8-1，我们从词--句--篇章来谈谈这篇文章。 原文： Geologists have long known that the Earths mantle is heterogene