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2015年11月19日---------

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两天一篇 听到稀烂 ：60-Second Science http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/60-second-science/




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两天一篇 跟读VOA http://learningenglish.voanews.com/




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11/19 Thursday 听力：

http://www.scientificamerican.co ... ap-and-rotten-eggs/

Comet Reeks of Cat Crap and Rotten Eggs
The Rosetta spacecraft has unexpectedly detected hydrogen sulphide and ammonia coming from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Lee Billings reports     

What smells like rotten eggs, a used litter box and an almond-munching mortician? The answer is one of those dirty snowballs in space, a comet. Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, to be exact, which is starting to thaw as it closes in on the sun.

Since August, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been monitoring the comet. Right now, Churyumov-Gerasimenko is between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, some 300 million miles from Earth. It’s so chilly out there that scientists expected Rosetta’s instruments to detect scarcely more than odorless carbon dioxide from the comet.

But instead Rosetta has also detected hydrogen sulphide—with its rotten egg odor—as well as ammonia, with a smell familiar to anyone who has changed a cat pan. Also in the mix: formaldehyde and methanol, found in embalming fluid, mixed with faint traces of poisonous hydrogen cyanide, which has an almond-like aroma.

Rosetta will deploy a probe to land on the comet this November, and will soon gather more pungent whiffs of the comet’s appalling perfume. But by studying this eau de comet, researchers hope to better understand the deep—and apparently smelly—chemical origins of our solar system.

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第一篇60-Second Science 感觉非常吃力，听了接近10遍还是不顺。 生词，长词，化学词汇，自己怎么也念不顺溜。

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http://learningenglish.voanews.c ... killed/3065014.html

French officials say the man suspected of organizing the deadly attacks in Paris last week was among those killed Wednesday.

Police say Abdelhamid Abaaoud was shot many times during a raid on an apartment in Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Abaaoud was identified by his fingerprints.

Abaaoud was a 27- or 28-year-old Belgian citizen. His family is Moroccan.

The November 13 attacks killed 129 people and injured more than 300 others. Officials said all 129 victims of the attacks have been identified. They believe that 20 people planned and carried out the attacks on a stadium, a concert hall and restaurants.

At least eight people were arrested in the raid. A woman whom police say was a family member of Abaaoud died when she detonated a suicide vest of explosives.

Three police officers were wounded and a police dog was killed.

On Thursday, the French National Assembly approved an extension of the country’s state of emergency for three months. The Senate is expected to vote Friday.

On Wednesday, President Francois Hollande said the extension gives police the power to close “any association or gathering.” That includes community groups and Muslim religious centers. Police can shut down meetings where people express support for terrorism or urge others to conduct terrorism.  

The bill is being criticized by civil rights activists.

On Thursday, police officials said officers off duty may carry weapons to protect citizens until the emergency ends.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said he rejects criticism that French security services failed to prevent the attacks. He told parliament, “I do not accept the criticism seeking to disparage our security services, who do a difficult and tough job.”

Valls also said the country faces the threat of chemical or biological attacks.

French police have carried out 414 raids, made 60 arrests and seized 75 weapons since Friday, they said. They have also put 118 people under house arrest, meaning they must stay at home. House arrest is one of the powers given to officials by the state of emergency put into effect Saturday.

Mr. Hollande is to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama next week in Washington to talk about ways to fight terrorism. And he is to meet November 26 with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Mr. Hollande wants to change the country’s constitution to help officials fight terrorism. And he wants people found guilty of terrorism to have their French citizenship removed.

I’m Christopher Jones-Cruise.

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