before the penguins getused to you, you need to bepatient.Put away your camera-too oftenpeople are so focused on gettingthe pictures that they forget tolook with their own eyes, but mostof your most memorableexperiences in Antarctica will bemarked in your mind, not on a rollof films.1....
More people are visiting Antarctic, the frozen continent than ever before.1This has brought a new urgency to the question of how much, if any, tourism should be allowed on the icy continent. The distance most visitors travel to reach Antarctica makes carbon emissions a serious problem.2One st...
Antarctica lies in the most southern part of the world. It is the coldest area on Earth. There isn’t much rain, but there is a lot of snow and wind. The lowest temperature was on 21 July in 1983 at -89.2℃! Population Nobody lives in Antarctica all the time! The first people to...
【小题1】What do we know about lichens according to the passage? A.They will die if they leave Earth. B.There are more lichens than plants on Earth. C.They look similar to the environment around them. D.They are too small to be easily seen by people.【小题2】What does the second...
People aren’t allowed to visit The Bird’s Nest before Dec 19. C. The“snow festival”would run for at least five winters. D. More than 2.4 million yuan a day is expected to be made in the“snow festival”. (3) What does Wu Jingjun mean by saying“The Bird’s Nest will not...
This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.” Knowing where to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow. 【1】According to the passage, some job applicants were refused...
Meanwhile, tiny "micronations" declared by individual people usually aren't taken seriously enough to be put on the list. The closest contenders would probably beSealandand theKingdom of Papaala, but it's debatable whether those tiny "nations" really count as having a territory, population, or...
As is known to all, shouting and running are not allowed in most museums, and touching the exhibits (展品) is also forbidden. But the Science Museum in London is different. It is noisy! People talk about what they can see and do here, and there are some very noisy machines, too. If...
A solution may be at hand for holidaymakers who are strugling to find quiet, out-of-the-way places to go. For those who really want to get away from the crowded and much-traveled 1)___ , they now find it possible because a new holiday destination has 2)___- Antarctica. However, ...
Could you dare to take on any of them? Antarctica With a population estimated at somewhere between 1,000 and 4,000 people, the world’s fifth largest continent is a land of extremes — the coldest and driest continent on the planet. Travelers can only reach it by ice-strengthened vessels...