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After a lethal 1995 heat wave 在历经了1995年致命热浪侵袭后, turned refrigerator trucks from the popular Taste of Chicago festival into make shift morgues, 它将那些在芝加哥美食庆典的冷藏车转换成临时搭建的停尸间

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Heat and drought are threatening some of America's most productive farmland. The Department of Agriculture says an early summer heat wave across the West has increased demand for water to save dry c

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA慢速英语2007年(七)月

AS IT IS 2013-05-01African Elephants, The Information Revolution and Nigeria's Safe Water From VOA LEARNING ENGLISH, welcome to As It Is! Hello, Im Steve Ember. Today on our program: African elephants facing their worst crisis in yearsa revolution in

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(五)月

Rising Sea Levels Endanger Senegalese Islands 海平面上升威胁塞内加尔岛屿 Senegal's Saloum Delta region is an egregious example of how rising sea levels caused by global warming endanger coastal communities around the world. Mangrove fore

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(131) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)

Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Liz Waid. Voice 2 And Im Colin Lowther. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 In 1953, a flood destroyed Zeela

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 环球英语 Spotlight

Rivers: what do they mean to you? Are they just something boring you learn about in geography at school? For many people the answer is probably yes, but anyone who has ever lived beside one and gone for walks along its bank, swum in it, gone fishing,

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(209) / 评论(0) 分类 英语音频杂志

But they never got there. The first disappeared into deep space. Another missed its target when its coordinates were confused. One NASA control center was working in metric, the other in feet and inch

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(201) / 评论(0) 分类 火星生命

It seemed like a good ideabecause rivers and ponds in Bangladesh were contaminated with bacteria, Bangladeshis switched to wells. But soon after, in the early 80s, researchers realized those wells were harming Bangladeshis with a new poisonarsenic. T

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(150) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(十一)月

The burgeoning Mississippi River is forcing residents in the poverty-stricken delta to run for higher ground. Teresa Welsh, a mother of three, says she's trying to keep it together. Knowing full well, her home will go underwater before the river cres

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(152) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

AS IT IS 2014-12-20 Disagreement Over Lower Mekong River Dam Project A two-day meeting in Laos has left government officials and environmental activists deeply divided. The meeting was called to examine plans for a 260 megawatt dam on the Lower Mekon

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

By Nico Colombant Niger Delta, Nigeria 24 May 2007 Environmental awareness is growing in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, as well as anger over spills and drastic changes to the region's ecosystem. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from the towns of Ikaram

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(191) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(五月)

Singer-songwriter Eric Bibb delves deep into the Delta blues on his new release, Booker's Guitar. The album was inspired by a vintage guitar once owned by Mississippi bluesman Booker White. Eric Bibb claims he's a lifetime fan of the late Booker Whit

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(191) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(一月)

Will There be Enough Water for Everyone? As the global population grows, so does the need for water. The Worldwatch Institute says increased demands for food, energy and industry, along with climate change, could lead to water scarcity in some places

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(137) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(三月)

Asian Water Summit Focuses on Security, Disaster There was no sign of a water shortage here in northern Thailand as delegates gathered for the Asia-Pacific Water summit. But inside, there was talk about an impending crisis facing Asia. For the region

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(五月)

Niger Delta Communities Pressure Shell on 2011 Oil Spill YOUBEBE, NIGERIA Local leaders in the Niger Delta want to unite competing communities to pressure Shell Petroleum to pay billions of dollars in reparations and clean up of fishing areas they sa

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This mud is very rich soil in which the Egyptians grow wheat and a very fine kind of cotton. 这种泥土成了非常肥沃的土壤,埃及人就在上面种植小麦和一种优质棉花。 In the olden times the Nile used to overflow the banks on

发表于:2019-01-25 / 阅读(225) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生世界地理教材

The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters says water levels of 127 rivers across China have surpassed alert levels after most parts of the country entered the main flood season. 国家防汛抗旱总指挥部近日表示,全国大部分

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

首先,我建议同学们不要上完辅导班就去参加考试。虽有趁热打铁之说,但是我相信绝大部分同学在上课期间已经把大部分的精力用于听讲和记笔记了,回家之后基本上就直奔安乐窝了。能够

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 雅思英语

近来在所接触到的考生当中,绝大部分都是准备到海外读语言、预科或是对雅思分数要求不高的准大学留学生。在他们身上都有着一个共同的特点,那就是时间比较紧迫且对雅思分数要求并不

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(173) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

IF CALIFORNIA were not already so famous for Silicon Valley and Hollywood, it might be renowned for the cluster of water-technology firms in its San Diego County. The reverse-osmosis (RO) spiral module, the trick that underpins turning sea- and waste

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(282) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合