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Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forests? What if its the forests that actually generate the rain? That is the contention of a paper in BioScience

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英文短文：The Salinity of Ocean Waters

The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic s

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Because the greatest necessity for so doing would seem to be, when in feeding he accidentally takes in water. 因为，它之所以要这样排水，最大的原因倒似乎是因为它在吃东西的时候，偶然吸进了水的缘故。 But the Sp

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Furthermore, as his windpipe solely opens into the tube of his spouting canal, 而且，因为它的气管是单独通向它那喷水道的管子的， and as that long canallike the grand Erie Canal is furnished with a sort of locks (that open and s

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The Salinity of Ocean Waters If the salinity of ocean waters is analyzed, it is found to vary only slightly from place to place. Nevertheless, some of these small changes are important. There are three basic processes that cause a change in oceanic s

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James Watt And The Teakettle A little Scotch boy was sitting in his grandmother's kit- chen. He was watching the red flames in the wide open fire- place and quietly wondering about the causes of things. In- deed, he was always wondering and always wa