时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英文阅读


英语课

 You may have thought that the age of exploration was over. But you would be wrong. The world is a big place and even in this modern age we are still finding hidden corners–places untouched by humans.


 
Thanks to our modern age exploring has become a lot easier. In 2005, a scientist at London’s Kew Gardens discovered a rainforest, but he didn't have to travel halfway 1 around the world to do it. He didn't even have to leave his desk.
 
Mozambique Rainforest
 
Dr. Julian Bayliss, a conservation scientist, was using Google Earth to search for rainforests in Africa. One day, he discovered a large area of lush forest on a peak called Mount 2 Mabu in Mozambique. In fact, at 27 square miles, it turned out to be the largest medium-altitude rainforest in Africa. Moreover, he discovered the area had never been studied before.
 
Next, Kew Gardens sent a research team to Mount Mabu. What they discovered was beyond their wildest expectations. The forest was full of endangered species 3 of birds, orchids 4, trees, large animals such as monkeys, and antelopes 5 and many kinds of insects. They even found completely unknown species on the first visit.
 
Mount Mabu Map
 
Since its discovery, the government of Mozambique has worked to protect the ‘Google Forest’ as it is sometimes called. For one thing, commercial logging is banned in the area and it has been made into a national park.

1 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
2 mount
n.山峰,乘用马,框,衬纸;vi.增长,骑上(马);vt.提升,爬上,装备
  • Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
  • She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。
3 species
n.物种,种群
  • Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗?
  • This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。
4 orchids
n.兰花( orchid的名词复数 )
  • Wild flowers such as orchids and primroses are becoming rare. 兰花和报春花这类野花越来越稀少了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She breeds orchids in her greenhouse. 她在温室里培育兰花。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 antelopes
羚羊( antelope的名词复数 ); 羚羊皮革
  • One jump, and you're out, and we'll run for it like antelopes.' 你只要一跳就出来了,我们可以像羚羊那样飞快地逃掉。”
  • Most antelopes can withhold their young for weeks, even months. 绝大部分羚羊能把分娩期推迟几个星期,甚至几个月。
学英语单词
a good sailor
abductor m.
absorbing rod,absorber rod
accident repeater
aeromedical indoctrination
affine evolute
allendorf
antimony alloy
Bachian
bark up the wrong tree
book entry system
bottling cellar
budget regulation
chemical transformation
compasses with detachable legs compass
complementaries
concatenator
contribution box
cryogenic forming
deprofessionalised
depth-diffusion process
Derekoy
double chained tree
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
ellsworths
epistolean
fractional concept
Garacad
gets you
glandulifera
Glasford
hair-fields
Huaibei
hydraulic balance
hydroxyamino-norleucine
Ileoscopy
in situ geostress
industrial banks
inert weight
integral
Katowickie, Województwo
kerosine heaters
knowledge discovery in database
Kootwijkerbroek
laser gyro axis
lastes
library entry
light drawn
Lipotidae
loan bill
lorra
Magnoliatae
Mannheim School
Mkumbi, Ras
offshore oil technique
on the minute
one way line
Otus scops
outdoor transformer
overmature
overthoughtful
permanent hearing loss
protonephridia
punchily
rated freezing capacity
relatednesses
riboregulation
Rosh Hashanah
scaled decimal arithmetic
scatophagus
Scorzonera mongolica
search procedures
self baking electrode
semifusinite
Sephadex
shiftworking
Shirley Bassey
siphonoglyph
software category
sprung mass
start at the bottom
stephensons
stout-heartedness
surface-activated polymerization
technical notes
technological production target
thematic flexion
thioether bond
threaded-rod
tobacco drier
tome's process
tpc-c
trial lenses
unit solid angle
valve management program
vergimycin
vesicular stomatitis virus (vsv)
voluntary obligatory right
warning colour
Windsor chair
xigris
Zanoxin