Grandpa’s Bees

A long time before I was born, my grandma and grandpa moved into the house on Beechwood Avenue. They had a young family of four little girls. The little girls slept in the 1) attic in a big feather be

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Costa Rica, 1986. 30 years after Doctor Cur's fateful African trip, graduate students from the University of Miami are on a field trip exploring caves. Moving ahead of the group, 24-year-old Inn-Saing Ooi climbs into a deep crevasse . He's not alone.

英国学生科学读本 第80期:我们脚下的土地(2)

The rock called sandstone is made up of a great many grains of sand. The beating of the rain on this rock washes the grains apart, and so the hard sandstone slowly changes into loose sand. 砂岩主要由大量沙粒组成。当雨水打下来的时候

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The Strange and Beautiful World of Arches National Park 犹他州拱门国家公园:奇怪而美丽的世界 This week on our national parks journey, we travel to Utah. The western state is home to several of the most popular national parks in Americ

英语听力文摘 English Digest 585、不同年龄的蜜蜂有不同的分工！

Bees Have Different Jobs According To Their Age Bees take on different jobs in a bee hive according to their age. Many become food scouts when older, but not all scouts are the same. Some search for new flowers, while others fly to and from establish

Bees and Beekeeping1

Broadcast: May 13, 2003 By Mario Ritter This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Most people have heard the sound of bees among flowers. Bees live almost everywhere in the world--except the

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Bees Keep Busy Producing More Than Just

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The Strange Way 'Birds and Bees' Help Us

Now, its time for Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English. Spring is in the air! Well, at least, in half of the world. The amount of daylight in the northern half is increasing, day by day. And air temperatures are slowly rising. Spring is

The Bees and the Wasp

Some bees once built a fine honeycomb in a hollow tree-trunk．Now there are two kinds of bees in a hive：worker bees，who gather pollen and make honey all their lives，and drones，who lie lazily in the hive all day long doing nothing．It happen

美国习惯用语:452 bird dog; the birds and bees...

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

英文乡村歌曲：The Birds And The Bees

Let me tell about the birds and the bees让我给你讲一些关于鸟儿和蜜蜂 And the flowers and the trees还有花儿和树 And the moon up above还有天上的月亮 And a thing called Love还有一种东西叫做爱 Let me tell you about the

英语听力文摘 English Digest 491、蜜蜂也吃肉？

Carnivorous Bees 蜜蜂也吃肉？ I guess you never heard of Trigona hypogea, a South American bee that not only collects meat from animal carcasses, but has more recently been discovered to have a taste for live prey as well. Scientists have seen

AGRICULTURE REPORT - All About the Birds and the Bees -- No,

AGRICULTURE REPORT - All About the Birds and the Bees -- No, Just the Bees By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Most p

AGRICULTURE REPORT - The Buzz About Bees

AGRICULTURE REPORT - The Buzz About Bees By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. More than ninety kinds of fruits, vegetables,

美国国家公共电台 NPR NPR's Bees (Moderate, Middle Of The Road Bees) Up And Left

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: A swarm of potential stingers were unleashed on Washington, D.C., this week. This is not a political statement. A swarm of bees from one of the two hives atop NPR headquarters buzzed over the streets as they followed their queen ou

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Lesson 50 Only A Stone 第50课 只是一块石头 What is the oldest thing you have seen? One boy thinks it is a church, for he has seen a date on one which tells that it was built hundreds of years ago. 小朋友，你见过的最古老的东西是什

英语听力文摘 English Digest 387、小心蚂蚁！

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

英文乡村歌曲：Honig - Choke on bees

And when the bee sat down upon my tongue I was pretty sure I would be stung I needed calming words to sooth my mind Cause my imagination was running wild If you hold your breath till the swellings past You could still be with us next morning But if y

英语听力文摘 English Digest 298、蜜蜂怎样过冬？

Honeybees in Winter 一只蜜蜂无法度过严寒的冬天。一群蜜蜂则不同。据说蜂箱中的蜜蜂要过冬的时候，往往要抱成一团。最外面的一层是工蜂，它们拼命地煽动着翅膀，像厚厚的衣服一样阻隔着外

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Fatherless Honeybee s How male honeybee s can be without fathers? The reason lies in whats called a haploidiploid system of sex determination. Approximate ly one-fifth of the animal kingdom, including ants and wasp s , use this system. What it boils