By Gary Garriott Broadcast: September 15, 2003 This is Robert Covent with the VOA Special English Development Report. 1)Clay is found almost everywhere in the world. It is formed by the action of wind

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A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no c

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There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse and heavy; but it had high thoughts of its own value, and wonderful dreams of the great place which it was to fill in the world when the time came for its virtues to

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Lesson 44 How Bricks Are Made 第44课 砖是怎么做出来的 We know that bricks are made of burned clay; but let us try to learn something more about them. Have you ever measured a brick? If you do so, you will find that its length is nine inches

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What has become of the water? Dry clay is full of tiny pores, and it has sucked up the water into its pores. 水上哪儿去了?干燥的粘土满是细小的孔洞,把水都吸到孔洞里去了。 Now let us mould our lump of soft clay into the

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Science and technology 科学技术 Materials science 材料科学 Don't slag it off 废渣别融掉 How to make bricks out of industrial waste 怎样用工业废渣制造砖块 BUILDING houses and offices out of toxic waste sounds like a pretty ecce

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