神秘死亡谷(1/3)
概述：位于美国加利福尼亚州的死亡谷是一个美丽与危险并存的地方，让我们一起走进这个神秘地带。Hints:
Death Valley
Badwater
Western Hemisphere
Ubehebe Crater
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答疑：mly123sm
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本期材料发音模仿地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11885/item/766123/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201305/201305120827231695747.mp3Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. There are mountains that reach more than 3,000 meters into the sky. There is a place called Badwater that is the lowest area of land in the Western Hemisphere. If there were water there, it would be 86 meters below the level of the ocean.
Death Valley can be dangerously cold during the winter months. Storms in the mountains can produce sudden flooding on the floor of the Valley.
The air temperature during the summer has been as high as 57 degrees Celsius.
The extreme heat of Death Valley has killed people in the past. It will continue to kill those who do not honor this extreme climate. Death Valley does not forgive those who are not careful.
Death Valley is a good example of the violence of nature. It contains evidence of several ancient volcanoes that caused huge explosions.
Evidence of one of these explosions is called Ubehebe Crater. The explosion left a huge hole in the ground almost a kilometer and a half wide.
In many areas of Death Valley it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed up violently by movement deep in the Earth. This movement has created unusual and beautiful rock formations. Some are red. Others are dark brown, gray, yellow or black.
Other areas of rock look as if some huge creature violently broke and twisted the Earth to create unusual, sometimes frightening shapes.死亡谷是一个无比美丽但又极端危险的地方，该地山脉海拔三千多米，高耸入云。有一个地方名叫恶水，那里是西半球的最低点。如果那里有水的话，恶水将处于海平面86米以下。
死亡谷冬季极度严寒，山脉上的暴风雨会给峡谷底部带来突如其来的洪水。
夏季气温可达到57℃之高。
过去，死亡谷的极端高温曾致人丧命。如今，它将继续向那些不尊重此地极端气候的人们索命。它对粗心的人们毫不留情。
死亡谷是自然暴力的典范，几座导致大爆炸的远古火山在这里都有迹可循。
其中一次爆炸的证据被称作优比喜比火山口，爆炸在地面留下了一个约1.5千米宽的巨坑。
在死亡谷的很多地方，你都可以轻而易举地看到哪里的地面曾被地底深处的运动猛烈推起。这些地底运动创造出了怪异却美观的岩石结构。有红色的，还有深褐色，灰色，黄色以及黑色的。
还有些地区的岩石看上去仿佛是地球被一个巨人猛烈地折断并扭曲，形成的异常，有时甚至是令人惊恐的形状。
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