VOA慢速英语2011--Getting to the Root of How to Water Tree

Agriculture Report - Getting to the Root of How to Water Trees This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some trees can survive a long time without water. Think of trees that grow in the desert. But other trees may need more moisture than t

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Why Shrews Twitter Small mouse like mammals, shrews are not actually rodents or even closely related. Shrews are noisy little creatures constantly twittering and squeaking as they scramble through their habitat. But why? All that noise could surely a

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Gibraltar looks like a nose on the map, but if you were in a boat out on the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar would look like a long, high rock. 直布罗陀在地图上看起来像个鼻子，但是当你坐船在地中海行驶的时候，直布罗陀看

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Many people fill a bottle with some of the muddy water and take it home to use as holy water, 很多人还用瓶子装上一些约旦河浑浊的河水，带回家，当做圣水使用， or in order to baptize their children with water from the same

2008-11-03 地中海净化行动

Volcanoes forged the rocky coast of Cabo de Gata in southeast Spain. But the tides blanket it with reef-like structures built by snails. An algine marine biologist Diego Moreno says this sea of life can be deadly. Filth and contaminants accumulate o

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Rome's savagery was matched by its size. When the Colosseum was built, Rome was a city of a million people and growing. Not until London of the 19th century would a city approach this size again. What

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Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on(1) a vast reservoir of groundwater. They say that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface. The British Geological Survey and t

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As the sun beat down, something like 4,000 cubic kilometers of water evaporated from the Mediterranean surface every year. And with no Atlantic water to replenish it, the Mediterranean dried out. In j

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美联社,新闻一分钟,Pacific,Russian,flight,1. In the Pacific, Russian crews struggle to raise a mini - sub snarl ed deep in the ocean with 7 crew men trapped on board the vessel. 2. The most anxiety-ridden part of its flight yet to come, shutt

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The northeastern Spanish city of Zaragoza is hosting an international water fair to highlight the importance of this vital and increasingly threatened resource. Spain is no stranger to water scarcity. The country is juggling competing demands of urb

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Volcanoes forged the rocky coast of Cabo de Gata in southeast Spain. But the tides blanket it with reef-like structures built by snails. An algine marine biologist Diego Moreno says this sea of life can be deadly. Filth and contaminants accumulate on

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I have told you of a White Sea and a Black Sea. Here is a Red Sea. It is a long, narrow sea bordering Arabia. 我介绍过白海和黑海，现在要讲红海了，它是与阿拉伯毗连的一个狭长的海。 I don't know why it's called Red, unl

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GWEN IFILL: Pernille Ironside of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, has been on the ground in Gaza since the conflict began. I spoke with her via Skype earlier today. Pernille Ironside, as you travel around in Gaza, tell us, what are you seeing? PERN

酷暑天冰雹突袭俄罗斯海滩 游客怕死忙表白

Swimmers on the popular river beach say there was no warning on a sunny day before the downpour of hailstones, some the size of golf balls and hen eggs. 正值酷暑，西伯利亚一处有名的沙滩却毫无预警地迎来了一场冰雹，冰雹大

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You're right, professor, he told me after a few moments of silence. This is a separate world. 您说得对，教授，他静默一刻后对我说，它是另一个世界，它跟陆地不相干， It's as alien to the earth as the planets accompanyin

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The number of those killed in the Italian cruise ship disaster has risen to five after search crews on Sunday discovered the bodies of two elderly men in the submerged section of the Costa Condordia. The huge vessel with more than 4,000 people on boa

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LISA DESAI: It's just after sunrise in the coastal town of Zarzis in Southern Tunisia. Tourism and fishing are the staple of the local economy. And the fishermen sell their catches of dorado and tuna, in the early hours of the morning. Here on the Me

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When you look at a lake, you are looking at a collection of molecules that have been there on average for about a decade. 要是你望一眼湖水，你看到的是一大堆分子，它们在那里平均已达10年之久。 In the ocean the residence

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