2008-12-27 猴子大闹波多黎各

The Lajas Valley in southwestern Puerto Rico is one of the island's richest agricultural areas, but the population of non-indigenous monkeys is running wild in this region, destroying farmers' crops, eating baby birds out of their nests, and general

2006年VOA标准英语-Hubble Telescope Given Reprieve; Astronauts to

By David McAlary Washington 31 October 2006 The U.S. space agency says it will send space shuttle astronauts one more time to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. The decision reverses one made by NASA's previous management two years ago,

东西欧意见大分歧：强制分摊难民配额方案

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Scientists Expect ‘Unexpected’ from Largest Ground-based Telescope

Scientists Expect Unexpected from Largest Ground-based Telescope The mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope that gave the world stunning pictures of deep space is about 4.5 square meters. Compare that with the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Tel

VOA标准英语2015--James Webb Space Telescope Progresses Toward Launch

James Webb Space Telescope Progresses Toward Launch WASHINGTON While the space community is looking back this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, workers in an airtight cleanroom at Goddard Space Flight

美国国家公共电台 NPR Some Assembly Required: New Space Telescope Will Take Shape After Launch

Some Assembly Required: New Space Telescope Will Take Shape After Launch play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:13repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update yo

有声英文阅读-国油双峰塔：亚洲出头天！

Tradition Facing Forward 国油双峰塔：亚洲出头天！ With pinnacles ascending 452 meters above Kuala Lumpur, the Petronas Twin Towers have a slender elegance reminiscent1 of the graceful spir

新西兰英语 800 A telescope in a plane

An unusual Boeing 747 arrived in Christchurch at the weekend from California. It has a telescope on board. The plane will spend the next three weeks flying the skies of the South Island to study the Milky Way. It is called SOFIA, Stratospheric Observ

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Harvard Memorial Hall, erected in honor of Harvard graduates who fought for the Union in the American Civil War, is an imposing building in High Victorian Gothic style on Harvard campus. 哈佛纪念堂是哈佛校园里一座壮丽的建筑，是为纪

2006年VOA标准英语-Hubble Telescope Repaired

By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 05 July 2006 watch Hubble Repair report A Hubble telescope image of part of the universe Space scientists at the U.S. space agency, NASA, are celebrating the return to action of the Hubble telescope. --------- For more t

CNN 2010-06-07

AZUZ: Around 25 percent of those tornadoes form in an area that's called Tornado Alley. Colorado is part of that, and it's where this tornado showed up on Monday. These pictures are amazing; look at this. Twisters like this one can sometimes do a lot

VOA慢速英语2011--Is NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope a

Technology Report - Is NASAs James Webb Space Telescope a Time Machine? This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. If you could build a time machine, what would it look like? Maybe, it should look like a telescope. American scientists are bui

2017年CRI China' space telescope set to search for black holes, pulsars

China launches its first X-ray space telescope to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, via a Long March-4B rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on June 15, 2017. [Photo: thepaper.cn] China launche

2016年CRI World's largest radio telescope ＂can shed first light＂ in exploring universe: astronomers

The Five-hundred-meter wide Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is now operational in the mountains of Guizhou in southwest China. FAST has been designed to help Chinese researchers better understand our universe, as well as probe the cosmos for e

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Stung by breach after breach after breach after gaffe at the White House, the Secret Service is asking Congress for $8 millionso it can build another White House. 白宫在一次一次又一次被闯入之后，特勤局决定他们要向国会申请八

曼德拉正常呼吸

CAPE TOWN, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Ailing former South African president Nelson Mandela is now breathing normally, his ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said on Thursday. Winnie denied reports that Mandela was in a permanent vegetative state, saying there

美国变焦"隐形眼镜"华丽登场

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非谓语动词 1.______ with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountain doesnt seem high at all. (90.1/47) A. When compared B. Compare C. While comparing D. Comparing 2. The children went there to watch the iron tower ______. (90.1/55) A. to

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Two weeks ago, I made a podcast about immigration into Britain from Eastern Europe. Todays podcast is also about an immigrant from Eastern Europe. His name was Josef Stawinoga. He was born in Poland. We do not know much about his early life. It seems

2016年CRI World's largest radio telescope completes installation

The construction of the project was started in 2011 with an investment of 1.2-billion yuan, or about 180 million US dollars. The 500 metre Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is the size of 30 football fields. It's located in a hollow that was for