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Youre going to see some beautiful coral out at the reef, Melanie said, as they boarded a glass-bottom boat later that morning. They had driven into Key West after breakfast and were taking their seats on the upper deck of a large white boat called th

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英语畅谈世界文化lesson7:Great Barrier Reef大堡礁

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Wk 09 (1 March 1954) USA Tests Its Biggest Nuclear WeaponThis Week in HistoryThe USA explodes a huge hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. In 1954, the USA tested a massive hydrogen bomb nicknamed Bravo at Bikini Atoll, part of the Mars

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The waves of these azure seas hide an abundant treasure. Below the waves, coral reefs provide a habitat for teeming life, a life with a kaleidoscope of color. In oceans around the world, clear and well-circulating waters encourage corals to anchor a

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Many parts of the United States were first territories with the plan that they would someday become states. Former territories include Oklahoma, which became a state in 1907; New Mexico and Arizona, which became states in 1912; and Hawaii and Alaska,

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A MARTINEZ, HOST: There are few places on Earth where the impact of climate change is more noticeable than along the Great Barrier Reef. It's the planet's largest living organism that now has become the world's largest dying organism. In the past 18

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Like these sea fans, the last frontier of life on the reef. The divers reach their target-- a massive ridge, 190 feet down. Here, the air they are breathing is under pressure, squeezed down so that there's more gas in every lungful. They have to hope

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The reef was left high and dry, exposed to air and harsh sun. A trillion tiny creatures died in their own homes. For the coral, it was an apocalypse. When the ice age ended, the sea came back and submerged the dead reef. But what brought it back to l

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Here it is. Got it, I think. A spring. And whats actually coming out of this is fresh water. You can drink. You see this stuff bubbling out? This is what the traditional owners of this place call 'buiur bindi''fresh water in the ocean'. The locals ca

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Today, the elements that support the reef are in fine balance--sun, wind and waves. But it doesn't take much to tip the balance, plummeting this huge reef into disaster. It might happen sonner than you think. Eighteen million years ago, a series of r

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The pearl luggers then turned their attention to something else, a much bigger target. The reef has always provided a great haven for large animals, like turtles who nest on the coral piece. Whole populations of turtles were brought to the verge of e

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Eighteen million years ago, it arrived in warm, tropical waters. Only then could the world's greatest reef be born. Australia's epic journey may have created perfect conditions for coral, but it also put it in the line of fire of the most powerful st

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Where the forces of nature meet? In a hidden world, a tropical miracle. At this moment, evolution is building a living colossus, a giant built by nature's tiniest creature, a model of reincarnation, a survivor born from disasterthe Great Barrier Reef

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As a polyp grows, it puts up a wall of limestone around itself. And then it multiplies. Each polyp can produce thousands of offspring, which all work together to build a living fortress-- a coral reef. After just a few years, a single piece of coral

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Inside the flesh of these tiny animals are microscopic plants called algae, but these aren't parasites. None of this would be here without them. Wachenfeld: When the algae photosynthesize, they take energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide, then make

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Todd: So, Rebecca, in Australia you have the Great Barrier Reef. Now have you been to the Great Barrier Reef? Rebecca: Yes, I have once, probably about two years ago. There's the main part of the Great Barrier Reef and then there's a little island, a

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November 1st, 1765The Stamp Act takes effect, as Britain imposes a tax on its American colonists. They respond with stiff resistance and Britain later repeals the Act. But the episode sets the stage for the American Revolution a decade later. 1952The

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November 1st, 1765The Stamp Act takes effect, as Britain imposes a tax on its American colonists. They respond with stiff resistance and Britain later repeals the Act. But the episode sets the stage for the American Revolution a decade later. 1952,Th

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November 1st, 1765The Stamp Act takes effect, as Britain imposes a tax on its American colonists. They respond with stiff resistance and Britain later repeals the Act. But the episode sets the stage for the American Revolution a decade later. 1952,Th

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Todd: So, Rebecca, in Australia you have the Great Barrier Reef. Now have you been to the Great Barrier Reef? Rebecca: Yes, I have once, probably about two years ago. There's the main part of the Great Barrier Reef and then there's a little island, a

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学英语单词
academic examination
aglint
Alamannic
arlena di castro
astern ignition cam
avalanche ionization
aztlan
bacterio-erythrin
baries
beta-galactosidase
bulnesia sarmientis
bunching machine
capsule
cascade washer
chasing of belt
chitooligomers
coelenchyme
commodity arbitrage
Congosto
counterpropose
crossing guard
crystal varnish
dagdas
descriptor base
disfellowship
Dogmast
drumken sawing machine
East Indies
ethylene urea
exomomental
express read
fahan
false tissue
fluorotelomer
foys
Gephyra
gesticulated
girllover
heritable bond
herring-bone earth
holder of the check
hygrotramas
hypocoristic
internal trace table
isogloss
Khuzdar
KIMSV
kissing-gate
Laféria
lapping-in
lazy bones
lenzner
load-elongation curve
Lobelia davidii
malipoensis
microwave linear accelerators
modelling error
multiple-lob dovetail
natural order systematics
NLWL
ocular eye
ovarian hypoplasia
Pasania rhombocarpa
pimefylline
polymedicating
postcolonialist
primary fission yield
printer record
production payment owner
profile trace
public-service vehicle
Queen City of the Pacific
radial universal milling machine
renovate
RP-27267
Scotsmen
single-roll hammer crusher
sky component of daylight factor
soap-oil dispersion
solid physics
spectrochrome
stainless steel screen
static force
step delta
step sister
stereocampimeter
the-writings
transformation apparatus
trash disposal
upbuilt
updrainage
urticaria vesiculosa
Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck
wavefront splitting
weft clearer
wet-process
wildegranaat
wing gun
zero tillage
zincographist
zone of reservoir inundation
zygomatic bones