大学英语精读第四册 Unit Three:Why Do We Believe That the Ear

Text Can you prove that the earth is round? Go ahead and try! Will you rely on your senses or will you have to draw on the opinions of experts? WHY DO WE BELIEVE THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND? George Orwell Somewhere or other — I think it is in the prefa

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The Moon 月球 We find that the moon is about 239,000 miles (384,551 km) away from the earth, and, to within a few thousand miles, its distance always remains the same. Yet a very little observation

双语有声阅读:The Moon 月球

The Moon We find that the moon is about 239,000 miles (384,551 km) away from the earth, and, to within a few thousand miles, its distance always remains the same. Yet a very little observation shows that the moon is not standing till. Its distance fr

当心您的爱车成为细菌的温床

Do you know so many of you will climb into your cars today perhaps to shuffle your children to soccer, to football, make their (refer to the cars) run to the grocery store. But do you also know what's

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Quarter 25分硬币 A quarter is an American or Canadian coin. quarter是指美国或加拿大的一种硬币。 How much is a quarter? 这种硬币值多少钱呢？ A quarter is equal to 25 cents. 它等价于25分。 It is worth one fourth of a do

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CNN 2010-10-12

Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to this Columbus Day edition of CNN Student News! We'll be talking more about Columbus Day in just a couple minutes. But first, we're reporting on a breakthrough in Chile. And we mean that literally. A hole big enough to re

CNN 2010-10-03

Declassify US government documents and witness testimony from former or retired US military personnel confirm beyong any doubt the reality of ongoing UFO incursions at nuclear weapon sites. When I say UFO, the witnesses have described this craft as d

SSS 2009-01-14

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. When we think about how to represent sound visually, most of us probably picture those volume-dependent sine waves. But thats not how John Stuart Reid

SSS 2010-01-12

If youve ever had a garden or grown flowers in a window box, youve probably heard that you shouldnt water your plants at high noon because their leaves might scorch. Now a study in a journal called New Phytologist confirms that water droplets can foc

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Sand 沙子 If you look around you, you can find sand very easily. 你若环顾四周，就很容易发现沙子。 Sand comes from rocks. 沙子源自岩石。 Each grain of sand is less than 2 millimeters in diameter. 每粒沙子的直径小于两毫

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TED演讲 :飞向海洋(5)

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A: I am looking for a pan. B: No problem. What size would you like? A: A big one would be nice. B: How about this one? It's our biggest16 in diameter. A: Oh, yes. I like that one. But it's too heavy. B: Okay, try this one. It's made of aluminum. A: O

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A: I am looking for a pan. B: No problem. What size would you like? A: A big one would be nice. B: How about this one? It's our biggest16 in diameter. A:I like that one, but it's too heavy. B: Okay, try this one. It's made of aluminum. A: This is muc

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For one thing, if this was just the Ebbinghaus effect, 首先，如果真是艾宾浩斯效应， then we would expect the moon illusion to disappear for pilots flying high above the clouds 那么我们应该预期月球错觉对于空中的飞行员来

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Bad weather meant that oil could not be pumped out of the ship the Rena today. The waves were too high. Pumping the oil is slow work because the oil is cold and thick. The pipe from the Rena to the oil barge is nearly 200m long and quite narrow, 7.5c