Stone Age Pottery Reveals Signs of Beekeeping陶器揭露人类养蜂历史 You have bees to thank every time you drizzle some honey into your tea. And the human-honeybee relationship is long-standing. Iconography of honeybees adorns 4400-year-old wa

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年Scientific American(二)月

Bees Protect Crops from Wild Elephants in India People in Mayilattumpara, a village in southwest India, could not sleep at night. Because of habitat loss, wild elephants would enter their village to look for food, destroying crops and farmland. The v

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Scientists Fear Non-Pest Insects are Declinin Butterflies are as beautiful as the flowers they feed on.But they appear to be less abundant than in years past and that has scientists worried.Because butterflies, bees and other beneficial bugs pollinat

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The Mysterious Honeybee Disappearance 神秘的蜂群消失事件 by Rebecca A. Fratzke Honeybees are used to help many crops flower and grow. Thus, they play an extremely important _(1)_ in agriculture. However, since 2006, beekeepers in the US have

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Researchers: Bees Help Kenyan Farmers Fend Off Elephants 蜜蜂助肯尼亚农民驱赶象群 VOI, KENYA African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, weighing as much as six tons, and measuring up to 7.5 meters long. But despite their siz

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Pesticide Additive Could Be One Culprit in Bee Deaths 农药添加剂是蜜蜂死亡的一大诱因 Springtime is flower season. And that includes some 90 million almond trees in California. It's the largest pollination event in the U.S.and beekeeper

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary entire: whole; complete constrain: to restrict or force rules on someone translate: to rewrite or express in a different language refrain: to avoid driven: motivated A Novel Without The Letter E A French novelist named George

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What the Robin Told 知更鸟说 The wind told the grasses, 风儿告诉青草, And the grasses told the trees. 青草告诉大树, The trees told the bushes, 大树告诉灌木, And the bushes told the bees. 灌木告诉蜜蜂, The bees told

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听歌学英语:我是你坚实的依靠 我是你亲爱的Honey Bee Blake Shelton,一个身高196cm的乡村歌手。作为一个不在意是否成为明星的人,Blake Shelton 在过去的几年中确实闯出了名头。他的第一张专辑就令

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上一次我们讲了三个带有bird这个词的习惯用语。它们是: bird brain。 Bird brain指没头脑、愚蠢的人和early bird special。 Early bird special是给早来顾客的特价优惠。还有strictly for the birds。 Strictly for

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If somebody from 1973 looked at what was on a dormitory message board in 1993, 如果一个1973年的人看着1993年一个学生宿舍信息栏, the slang would have changed a little bit since the era of Love Story, 俚语等习惯用语会跟爱情

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Walk through Times Squareyou're bombarded with advertising. And it turns out, a bumblebee might have a similar feeling, buzzing through a field of flowers. So these flowers are these billboards, they're advertising a good, this delicious nectar rewar

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Understanding language;Talk, talk; 文艺;书评;理解语言;不停地说; Language: The Cultural Tool. By Daniel Everett. 《语言:文化的工具》,丹尼尔埃弗雷特著。 For half a century an inf

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Fungicide for Plants May Hurt Honeybees除草剂可能对蜜蜂造成伤害 根据一项最新调查结果,一种广泛用于抵抗植物疾病的化学剂会对蜜蜂造成伤害,这项结果令人吃惊。美国之声记者梅根麦格拉思带来

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Artist:Tamas Wells Song:Lichen and Bees Lichen, the bees and a fortress of weeds in a small town venture Only the stale and a quart of an ale and a cold intention Over the lawn and the rail And only to gather the mail He likened to me but I wonder

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Sure, you talk to your cat now, but does he know what the heck youre saying? And do you understand his purrs and meows? If not, its time to have a good chat with your furry friend. 当然,你现在也可以和你家猫猫说话,但是你家猫猫知

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Recently, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Institute have developped a robotic platform consisting of multiple single-propeller machines that autonomously dock with each other and take flight. Each vehicle is simply designed

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当你决定要学习一种新的语言,你得明白,从初学到掌握,这将是一个漫长的过程。有时你会因为语法过于复杂而想将它弃之不顾,有时你又会因为能够用这种语言表达自己的想法而感到欣喜

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Ant Attack! Imagine this. Youre coming home to your gated community after a long day of work. As you stop to show the guard your ID, a mugger jumps out from behind a bush and grab s you by the mouth. Okay, that last part sounded a little weird, but t

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1. 准确:用词选择,时间描述等,这是语言的基本要求,所需要的基本功是对于图表信息和议论文审题的准确把握,其实是个思维水平的问题,要求考生在进行考前练习的同时,要观察生活,

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