And speaking of mountains, Alaska has more than seventy volcanoes that are potentially active, meaning that someday they could erupt.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

You said that you used to live in Alaska.

你说过你以前住在阿拉斯加。

我来自阿拉斯加 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Most of the shaking is not very strong, but Alaska has had some of the biggest quakes ever recorded.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In eighteen ninety-seven,the word came to mean the huge groups of people running or stampeding to Alaska and the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

He made several stops for gas and a few hours rest before flying across the Bering Sea to Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Their discovery started a rush of people traveling to the American territory of Alaska and across the border to Canada.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

We tell about the thousands of people who traveled to Alaska and on to Canada hoping that they would become rich.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Alaska is on the border of northwestern Canada, far enough north that part of it is within the Arctic Circle.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Today environmental groups are fighting proposals to open protected areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The Alaska Travel Industry Association says tourism directly pumps a billion and a half dollars a year into the state economy.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The first ship carrying the gold seekers arrived in the port town of Skagway,Alaska, on July twenty-sixth,eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Men who had no jobs decided to use all the money they had left to go to Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

NOAA's National Weather Service center in Palmer,Alaska supervises a warning station for the United States mainland and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

He said the most difficult period of the trip was crossing the Yukon Arctic and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

VOA: special.2011.03.23

Alaska and Hawaii are very different states, but they shared attention last year during the presidential campaign.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Alaska's wealth in oil, natural gas,trees,fish and animal skins makes its purchase one of the greatest deals any country ever made for territory.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Finally,in nineteen fifty-eight, Congress passed the Alaska Statehood Bill and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Oil and gas was found in nineteen sixty-eight near Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Werner Herzog's movie "Grizzly Man" tells about the bear expert Timothy Treadwell who lived with and studied bears in the state of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Alaska is the biggest of the fifty states by territory but one of the smallest by population.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

She wrote about their flight in a single-engine airplane over Canada and Alaska to Japan and China.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

The discovery of the largest oil and gas field in North America led to the Alaska Pipeline.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

There are more questions than answers,they say, about how the worldwide economic downturn will affect Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The area was just across the border from Alaska, which was owned by the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Alaska Senator Mark Begich is leading a group of other United States senators, organizations and businesses to try to stop the FDA approval process.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

Alaskans accepted it, and on January third, nineteen fifty-nine, President Eisenhower declared Alaska the forty-ninth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Opponents argued that Alaska was far away, disconnected from the other states and little populated.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The possibility of finding gold caused thousands of people to make plans to travel to Alaska and then to the Klondike area of the Yukon.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

The company said a ticket on a ship from Seattle to Skagway,Alaska was thirty-five dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

For example, he says glaciers are melting in Alaska as a result of higher temperatures.

VOA: special.2009.09.28