Earth and Sky:Acid Rain 酸雨

Acid Rain 酸雨 Damage from acid rain is widespread - not just in eastern North America, but throughout Europe, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia. Is the rain that's falling on your umbrella acidic? A listener's question -- on today's Earth and Sky. J

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists have discovered that stored blood loses a life-saving gas. This discovery may explain why a great number of people get sick after receiving stored blood. In recent years, experts have wondere

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With Camarasaurus, it's operating purely by instinct. 对于圆顶龙它完全靠本能行动。 They also discovered that the Camarasaurus would have sent out a distress call which Allosaurus would pick up and recognize. 人们还发现圆顶龙会发

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I am Jolly Joy, and I?m a happiness! But you, as a human, might know of me as simply, ?sunflower?. Little do you know that we flowers have our own identities and souls, for indeed we do, along with divine purpose and goals, albeit our goals are much

知性英语－Acid rain 酸雨

How does acid deposition affect human health? We eat food, drink water, and breathe air that has come in contact with acid deposition. Canadian and U.S. studies indicate that there is a link between t

英语导读1000句[28]:Acid Rain

Section 28 Acid Rain 50 years ago, no one talked about acid rain. Then we didn't really know the harm it was causing to the world. Today almost every adult and school child is aware of acid rain and i

VOA慢速英语 2007 1113b

SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Discovery That Stored Blood Loses a Life-Saving Gas Could Solve Mystery By Lawan Davis, Soo Jee Han and Caty Weaver / Broadcast: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm S

VOA慢速英语2013 Can Folic Acid Prevent Childhood Autism?

Can Folic Acid Prevent Childhood Autism? From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. A new study found that women who took folic acid supplements in early pregnancy were less likely to have a child with autism. Folic acid

AS IT IS 2016-02-13 Work Soothes Pain of Acid Attacks In India

AS IT IS 2016-02-13 Work Soothes Pain of Acid Attacks In India A caf in India is hiring women who once stayed in hiding after being attacked with acid. One woman, Dolly Kumari, says she stayed inside for two years after a man threw acid on her. He wa

VOA标准英语2012--Acid Attacks Continue in Cambodia Despite Harsher Punishments

Acid Attacks Continue in Cambodia Despite Harsher Punishments For Som Bunnarith, memories of the day acid violence changed his life forever are as vivid in his mind as the scars on his skin. When it splashed on me, it felt hot. It even burned through

VOA标准英语2012--Pakistani Acid-Attack Victim Enjoys New Life in Texas

Pakistani Acid-Attack Victim Enjoys New Life in Texas After taking the oath of citizenship, Julie Aftab celebrated. I have waited eight-and-a-half years to hear those words, and those words mean so much to me, she said. Ten years ago, when she was 16

VOA标准英语2013--Magnetic Ring Used to Stop Acid Reflux

Magnetic Ring Used to Stop Acid Reflux Heartburn is usually linked to gastric acid that reaches the esophagus when a weak muscle does not close as it should after swallowing. When stomach juices back up into the esophagus, the acid can cause a burnin

VOA常速英语2007年-Acid Attacks Are a Growing Form of Revenge in U

By Birungi Machrine Kampala 26 November 2007 Attacks using acid are becoming more frequent in Uganda. Up to 2003, there were only 145 recorded attacks, but over the last three years, there have already been 87. Survivors often suffer from severe emot

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I hold myself the grand reformer of the age. 我自认是这一时代了不起的改革家。 From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of a vast portion of its crime and anguish, 从我的喷嘴或姑且

中英双语新闻——54 Exposed: canteen rules

Although the price of a bowl of Lanzhou noodles has soared to over 10 yuan in restaurants, you can still get a bowl for 4.5 yuan at college canteens. 尽管饭馆里的兰州拉面已经飞涨到了每碗10块钱以上，但在大学食堂你仍然可以

Taste for Hard Cider Grows in US

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont More Americans are quenching their thirst with hard cider. In 2011, U.S. sales of the alcoholic beverage made of fermented apple juice were up 20 percent over the previous year, according to the U.S.-based Beer Institute. There we

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There was no way she could come to terms with death; she lay night after night in a confused terror, trying to imagine if death was perpetual night, or an abyss of flames she had to jump over to reach the golden fields on the far side, or a sphere li

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For over 7,000 years, Asians have been brewing beer. But it's only in the past few years that Asia has overtaken Europe and America to become the world's biggest beer-drinking continent. With an increasingly young and upwardly mobile population, ther

新西兰英语 172 Folic Acid in Bread

On September 18th, all New Zealand bread was going to have folic acid added to it. However, now the government has decided to wait three years. New Zealand and Australia have an agreement about food standards. Australia is going to add folic acid to