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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Katy Blake. Voice 2 And Im Christy VanArragon. 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 Small, shiny shells. Roun

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1. protagonist /prəˈtgənɪst/ -- the leading(first) character in a play, novel or story Brutus is the protagonist in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony is the antagonist. 布鲁特斯在威廉莎士比亚的《尤利乌斯凯撒》中是

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China has more plants than anywhere else in the temperate regions of the world. In fact, it has almost twice as many kinds of plants as there are in the United States which is about the same size and about three times as many as there are in Europe.

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CANBERRA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A rare virus that can be contracted by humans has killed a large number of Victorian pigeons after being detected in the Australian state for the first time, Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday. According to the

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 03 December 2007 Kevin Rudd has been sworn in as Australia's new Prime Minister with an agenda of action on climate change and the repeal of unpopular industrial laws. The new government has signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate

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While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, 当我观察这只奇怪动物的时候，两道水和汽从它的鼻孔吐出来，直喷到叫十米的高度

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The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, 我们的蛇形玻璃管中的光学，照在这些天然的凹凸不平的拱形建筑物上面， or some overhang suspended

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In the first group: organ-pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea-pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus

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In 2001, a team from Tel Aviv University argued that B. permians were almost identical to a strain of modern bacteria, Bacillus marismortui, found in the Dead Sea. 2001年，以色列特拉维夫大学的一个小组认为，二叠纪芽孢杆菌与一

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MOSCOW, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Russian Football Union chief resigned Monday and apologized for the national squad's failure during the Euro 2012 tournament. Sergei Fursenko, head of the RFS, told President Vladimir Putin his decision during a morning me

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What makes the sun shine? For a lot of folks, this is the kind of thing that doesn't even require explanation: it just does. But just being a commonplace phenomenon in no way explains it. Something must cause the sun to shine. And, in fact, there is

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A triggerfish, I said. 是一条箭鱼。我于是说了。 It's a Chinese triggerfish, Ned Land replied. 尼德兰回答：是一条中国箭鱼。 Genus Balistes, family Scleroderma, order Plectognatha, Conseil muttered. 康塞尔于是低声说：箭

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There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, 我在这里又看到的，不是像在诺第留斯号船上风干的标本，而

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At intervals it hands down decrees, declaring that Zauschneria californica (a common plant in rock gardens) 它不时下达命令，宣布从今以后加州倒挂金钟（一种普通的假山庭园植物） is to be known henceforth as Epilobium can

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The British actor Alan Rickman has died of cancer at the age of 69. In movies, he won fame for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series and before that in films such as Truly Madly Deeply, Love Actually, Die Hard, Sense and Sensibility an