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[00:09.40]Lesson 25 Text   THE LARGEST AND MOST POPULOUS
[00:28.76]THE LARGEST AND MOST POPULOUS
[00:33.62]Asia is the largest of the continents of the world.
[00:40.10]It is larger than Africa,larger than either of the two Americas,
[00:48.04]and four times as large as Europe.
[00:52.79]Asia and Europe form a huge land mass.
[00:59.04]Indeed Europe is so much smaller than Asia
[01:05.28]that some geographers regard Europe as a peninsula of Asia.
[01:12.75]Many geographers say that the Ural Mountains
[01:18.92]form the dividing line between Europe and Asia.
[01:24.87]Some think differently.
[01:28.53]But all geographers agree that Asia was once linked to North America.
[01:36.39]Or,to be more exact,
[01:41.85]Alaska was at one time connected with the tip of Siberia.
[01:49.90]The ancestors of American Indians,geographers say,were Asians.
[01:58.36]30,000 years ago they went across the land bridge
[02:05.44]and settled down in new homes.
[02:10.19]Only a small canal separates Africa from Asia.
[02:17.04]But before the Suez Canal was cut in 1869,Asia was also linked to Africa.
[02:27.10]The highest point of the earth is in Asia.
[02:34.23]This is the peak of the Himalaya Mountains.
[02:39.79]It is over 8,848 metres high.
[02:47.24]At this altitude,the air is very thin and the weather is uncertain.
[02:56.30]So the climbing is very difficult.
[03:00.98]People take great pride in getting to that peak.
[03:07.92]The world's great religions originated from Asia:
[03:13.80]Buddhism from India,Christianity from Palestine,Islam from Arabia.
[03:23.83]Today Buddhism and Islam are the principal religions of much of Asia.
[03:32.48]Asia is also the most populous continent.
[03:38.12]China,the country with the largest population in the world,is in Asia.
[03:47.68]One half of the world's population are Asians.
[03:54.53]A Chinese is an Asian,a Japanese is an Asian,and an Indian is an Asian.
[04:07.20]So is an Iranian,a Palestinian,an Iraqi,a Filipino,a Singaporean.
[04:20.26]A meeting of Asians is usually a large gathering.
[04:27.91]The Asian Games meet every four years,
[04:34.16]sometimes with as many as thirty-four nations taking part.
[04:42.02]There was a time when Asia led the world in civilization.
[04:50.77]Today most of the Asian countries are still developing countries.
[04:59.42]They are working very hard to catch up in science and technology.
[05:06.68]They must.They have little time to lose.
[05:13.13]Notes to the Text title:
[05:23.87]The largest and most populous
[06:14.39]Asia is the largest of the continents of the world.
[07:01.33]Asia is the largest continent in the world.
[07:09.98]It is larger than Africa,larger than either of the two Americas,
[07:27.84]and four times as large as Europe.
[08:30.17]Indeed Europe is so much smaller than Asia
[08:39.11]that some geographers regard Europe as a peninsula of Asia.
[09:02.28]much smallar
[09:10.82]so...that...
[09:43.08]Her voice is so weak that I can't hear it
[10:02.83]He walked so fast that we couldn't catch up with him.
[10:25.97]the Ural Mountains
[10:52.62]Some think differently.
[11:09.10]But all geographers agree that Asia was once linked to North America.
[11:42.85]Or,to be more exact,Alaska was at one time connected with the tip of Siberia.
[13:05.11]The ancestors or American Indians,geographers say,were Asians.
[13:28.36]Only a small canal separates Africa from Asia.
[13:45.50]separate...from...
[13:53.15]Theory should not be separated from practice.
[14:06.18]The paper has separated from the wall.
[14:20.87]a small canal     the Suez Canal
[14:53.52]It is over 8,848 meters high.
[15:22.88]the peak of the Himalaya Mountains
[15:35.92]Mount Everest
[16:17.55]People take great pride in getting to that peak.
[16:25.10]take pride in...
[16:36.65]getting to that peak
[16:42.40]get to
[16:46.76]The world's great religions originated from Asia:
[17:05.12]Buddhism from India,Christianity from Palestine,Islam from Arabia.
[17:41.77]China,the country with the largest population in the world,is in Asia.
[18:16.83]So is an Iranian,a Palestinian,an Iraqi,a Filipino,a Singaporean.
[18:51.78]the Asian Games
[19:02.05]The Asian Games meet every four years,
[19:09.02]sometimes with as many as 34 nations taking part.
[19:25.87]take part
[19:37.63]as ... as
[19:47.08]as many as
[19:53.74]With prices going up I found it's hard to make ends meet.
[20:20.60]He lay in bed with his eyes open.
[20:29.95]He stood there with his hands in his pockets.
[20:39.01]He has lived there for as long as ten years.
[20:57.06]The weather was as hot as 40 degree Celsius.
[21:07.12]developing countries
[21:25.98]There was a time when Asia led the world in civilization.