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泛听材料第2周(国外英语资料) 2010 - 08 04 蝴蝶的战役 One thinks of nature as red in tooth and claw, as the old saying goes. Species compete with each other for resources, and members of the same species compete with each other for kill. There s a lot of scratching and biting going on. Unless you re a butterfly. People love butterflies for their gentleness. According to new studies, that soft, fluttery quality persists all the way down to butterfly battles. Yes, male butterflies compete for the attentions of female butterflies. In fact, some evils it is by fluttering. Researcher Darrel Kemp, who is now at Arizona State University in Tempe, worked on an Australian butterfly called hypolimnas bowline. As is the case with many species, the male hypolimnas centerboards seek to mate with as many females as possible, but the females only mate once. At any given time the vast majority of females aren t in the sexually accommodating state, and the evils have to duke it out for the few who are. 2010 - 08 - 05 究竟怎样回收塑料 (上) When plastic containers are recycled, they are first cleaned, then ground into tiny pellets and put into a flotation tank. This separates out the various plastic resins from other waste material. Once they are separated out, the plastic resins are ready for reuse. They are melted down, then molded into new plastic products. Plastics are made mostly of polymers, large molecules of carbon and hydrogen and oxygen. These polymers can be mixed with a number of other ingredients, including stabilizers, fillers, and coloring agents. This makes for a wide variety of types of plastic, having many different useful properties. Unfortunately, this variety also makes plastic one of the most difficult things to recycle. 2010 - 08, 07 年老与失去知觉 Y: when you get older, your senses start to decline. Around the age of fifty, the bones and nerves of your inner ear start to break down. Plus, the nerve that transports sound signals to the brain can change with age, making it more difficult to inter