英语演讲比赛预赛朗读文章之二

2016 全新精品资料 全新公文范文 全程指导写作 独家原创 1 7 英语演讲比赛预赛朗读文章之二 6 The Dead Sea is alive FOR a long time we have believed that there s no life in the Dead Sea 死海 But it looks like we were wrong The Dead Sea lies on the border 边界 of Jordan 约旦 Israel 以色列 and the West Bank There is much more salt in it than in other seas So people thought it was impossible for things to live in it Too much salt also makes people float 漂浮 better For this reason many tourists visit the Dead Sea every year A diving team has found 30 giant craters 火山口 under the Dead Sea The craters spew 喷出 fresh water There are many tiny living things around them Team member Danny Ionescu told National Geographic News that the craters were a fantastic place for life 2016 全新精品资料 全新公文范文 全程指导写作 独家原创 2 7 7 Internet measures up HOW long does it take us to download 下载 a 500m megabytes 兆字节 计算机中的一种储存单位 movie from the Internet In China it usually takes half an hour But in South Korea it only takes four minutes According to a global Internet speed study released 发布 by the US company Pando Networks South Korea offers the world s highest download speed 2 202kbps kilobytes per second 千字节 每秒 网络速度单位 1m 等于 1 024kb Romania 罗马尼亚 and Bulgaria 保加利亚 come in second and third on the list 2016 全新精品资料 全新公文范文 全程指导写作 独家原创 3 7 The US showed up in the middle of the list and China is 80th The slowest country according to the study was the Congo 刚果 8 What s that in the sky MANY people recently reported seeing a UFO in China At 9 pm on August 20 the pilot of aircraft CZ6554 was flying above Shanghai Suddenly he saw a huge light in the sky It was round and kept getting bigger It looked hundreds of times bigger than the moon he said of the sighting 景象 2016 全新精品资料 全新公文范文 全程指导写作 独家原创 4 7 At almost the same time Chen Xu of Beijing saw a halo 光 环 in the sky He published a photo of the halo on his micro blog 微博 Chen said the halo was small at first then became larger moved north and disappeared several minutes later The experts at the Beijing UFO research organization held a meeting to discuss the UFO sighting In their opinion the halos are man made The military likely sent a missile 导弹 into the sky When its remains 残骸 fell people saw halos 2016 全新精品资料 全新公文范文 全程指导写作 独家原创 5 7 9 Dolphins are a lot like us ONE of the biggest differences between humans and other animals is humans use of tools 工具 But scientists found that some dolphins use tools too According to researchers from Murdoch University a group of dolphins in Australia made a new tool to catch fish They hold a large conch shell 海螺壳 in their beaks 嘴 and use it to shake fish into their mouths Researchers first saw dolphins shaking conch shells at the surface 表面 of the ocean in 2007 At that time they thought it was just a game or males giving gifts to females Researchers took photos and studied them carefully They finally found that this is a new fish catching trick made by a clever group of dolphins 2016 全新精品资料 全新公文范文 全程指导写作 独家原创 6 7 10 Mini Noah s Ark IN the movie 2012 a huge ark 方舟 saved people from a destroyed world Now a Japanese company has developed a mini Noah s Ark to help people in earthquakes and tsunamis 海啸 The yellow capsule 舱 looks like a huge tennis ball rather than a ship It s made of strong fiberglass 玻璃纤维 Company president and creator of the capsule Shoji Tanaka says it can hold four adults And it has passed many crash 撞击 tests It has a small lookout window and breathing holes on top It can also be used as a children s toy More than 27 000 Japanese people died or went missing in the big earthquake in