Lesson19 The Dead Sea Throughout history people all over the world have gone to special places where mineral-rich hot springs flow from beneath the earth@s surface. Countries with much volcanic activity such as Japan have many such hot springs and ha

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(261) / 评论(0) 分类 背诵为王第四册

Virgin will resume limited services from Melbourne, Tasmania and New Zealand in about half an hours time with Qantas is expected to recommence its flights from 10:00 this morning. Jetstar also hopes to get some of its planes back in the air this morn

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1. The Coast Guard says an oil platform that suffered a massive explosion two days ago has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. It's been burning since the explosion. And officials say it went down this afternoon. Meantime, the search continues for 11 workers

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1. Limited flights are resuming at certain airports in Europe, five days after a volcanic ash cloud forced planes to remain on the ground. Only a few flights are being allowed in and out of France today. And European officials say it will take severa

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Air traffic over much of Europe came to a halt for six days because of the huge cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland. Now the economic costs are still being counted as airlines try to get everyone t

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For most of us, Hawaii begins to weave her spell with some little glimmer of awareness. Golden beaches and golden people. Sun, sand, sea, and surf... And somewhere between the blue skies and the palm trees... we're hooked. 对于大部分人来说,那

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Iceland Airwaves is a super hip, long weekend music festival that dominates the festival scene each year. Its been around since 1999 and the name comes from its first location an airplane hangar. Part of what makes this festival so special is the unt

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Plateaus 高原 A huge flat area on the ground is called field. 地面上的大块平地叫做平原。 Then what is a huge high flat area? It is a plateau. 那大块的平坦高地又是什么?高原。 A plateau can be made by various activities.

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The Rock Cycles 岩石循环 Many people know what the water cycle is, but how about the rock cycle? 许多人都知道水循环,那岩石循环呢? Did you know that rocks also have a cycle? 你知道岩石也有循环吗? The rock cycle expla

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Geologists 地质学家 Geology is a very interesting field of science. 地质学是一个非常有趣的科学领域. People who study geology are called geologists. 研究地质学的人被称为地质学家. Geologists explore the Earth. 地质学家

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分类词汇:日本中部火山御岳山喷发 当地时间2014年9月27日,日本中部御岳山发生爆发,造成重大人员伤亡。日本气象厅召开记者会表示,今后仍有发生同等规模喷发的可能,但从地壳变动等情

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May 18th,1980Its erupting like it never has before, I am sure. Cause from where Im standing, I cant see the top of the mountain, but I see the whole eruption coming from it, its big.In Washington state, Mount St. Helens explodes, blasting away the to

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The golden dome which is mounted right at the top of the prayer pole is the most sacred object of all. Or it will be once it's retrieved. The old Shamanic beliefs of Tibet ascribed magical powers to the landscape, but theres a far more tangible sourc

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Im Bear Grylls. Ive served with the British Special Forces. Ive climbed to the summit of Everest and crossed the frozen oceans of the Arctic. Now, Im in Iceland, a land of huge glaciers and volcanoes. Every year, a thousand tourists need to be rescue

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 探索与发现2012年

I could actually eat the meat raw. But its harder to digest and can actually take energy away from the body. So cook meat whenever you can. You see here just where all the water is boiling. And all I need to do is take my shoelace off and then I have

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Now Im on the lookout for fuel for a nice warm fire. Therere loads of these birch trees around here, and these are what Im looking for. I can tell theyre birch just because of the way theyre silver-limbed. This time of year in the winter, all the lea

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We were left with this atmosphere made of molten rock and vaporous rock. It took millions of years for that atmosphere to fall out and to be replaced by an atmosphere made up of nitrogen and carbon dioxide and water vapour. These new gases came from

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Science and Technology The rise of the dinosaurs Pardon! 科技 恐龙的崛起 恕我直言! A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs' domination 地质上的甲烷释放可能是恐龙称霸地球的原因 THE s, famously, went out with a ba

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On Monday 6 August 2012, the North Island volcano, Mt Tongariro, erupted during the night. It had been dormant for over a century. During the previous month there had been a number of earthquakes below it, but the eruption was still a surprise. Becau

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sloping cone 有坡度的圆锥体 sodium n.[化]钠 solar system [天]太阳系 solidification n. 凝固 solidify v.(使)凝固,巩固 spine n. 脊骨,地面隆起地带 spiteful adj. 怀恨的,恶

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