Horse 2007-4-11 19:34
旧托福听力mp3及脚本——《第十八天》（98年8月北美）
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(woman) Stan, do you have a minute?2v6HuL%zI1\
(man) Oh, hi, Cathy. Sure. What’s up?
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(woman) Well. I’ve been meaning to talk to you about the situation in the office.
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(man) I’m not in there very often. It’s so noisy that I can’t work.j(@.O'd2y.| `N;T*J2]
(woman) That’s exactly what I’m getting at. We’re supposed to be able to do our preparation and
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marking in that office, but have you noticed? Jack constantly has students coming in to get help with his course. A lot of people are going in and out.S+^QE
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(man) Has anybody spoken to him about it?/W)R/{U bG
(woman) No, not yet, but someone’s going to have to.
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(man) We can’t really ask him to stop having students come in for help, can we?W&_Q3T p-N:N2k{
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same for the others in the office.
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down the hall, a rather small room, that we could ask to use. It’s only for storing
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(man) Are you sure? With the cabinets taken out, it might be bigger than it looks.
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(man) Sure. Let’s go.
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对话听写训练 2
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(man) I really appreciate your filling me in on yesterday’s lecture.
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(woman) No problem. I thought you might want to go over it together. And, anyway, it helps me
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review. Hope you’re feeling better now.(f xND6G6L
(man) I am. Thanks. So, you said she talked about squid? Sounds a little strange.
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(woman) Well, actually, it was about the evolution of sea life—a continuation from last week. The
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octopus and the squid descended from earlier creatures with shells. They survived by
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shedding their shells—somewhere between 200 and 500 million years ago.Nc5j
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(man) That’s a pretty long span of time.
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(woman) I know. That’s what she said, though. To be precise: “Exactly when they emerged is
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uncertain…and why is still unexplained.”
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(man) Some squid are really huge. Can you imagine something that big if it still had a shell?1~C|2RS$a*ik4D9b2{
(woman) Actually, it’s because they lost their shells that they could evolve to a bigger size.
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weighed over a ton. Did she talk about how that happens?
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(woman) Not really. But she did mention some unusual cases. In 1933 in New Zealand they I#h:MCr
caught a squid…let’s see here…it was twenty-two yards long. Its eyes were eighteen inches across. Can you imagine?
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(man) Reminds me of all those stories of sea monsters.
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squid are intelligent and fast—so they can easily get away from humans. Maybe some of those monster stories are true.J8WX1x Exr0s.w`
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(man) Community service is an important component of education here at our university. We encourage all students to volunteer for at least one community activity before they graduate. A new community program called “One On One” helps elementary students who’ve fallen behind. You education majors might be especially interested in it because it offers the opportunity to do some teaching—that is, tutoring in math and English. 'u6Y q1JD4b
You’d have to volunteer two hours a week for one semester. You can choose to help a child with math, English, or both. Half-hour lessons are fine, so you could do a half hour of each subject two days a week.
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Professor Dodge will act as a mentor to the tutors—he’ll be available to help you with lesson plans or to offer suggestions for activities. He has office hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. You can sign up for the program with him and begin the tutoring next week. cpg:V)^?N
I’m sure you’ll enjoy this community service…and you’ll gain valuable experience at the same time. It looks good on your resume, too—showing that you’ve had experience with children and that you care about your community. If you’d like to sign up, or if you have any questions, stop by Professor Dodge’s office this week.R.T%on\
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(woman) I hope you’ve all finished reading the assigned chapter on insurance—so that you’re prepared for out discussion today. But, before we start. I’d like to mention a few things your text doesn’t go into.+ayn!W3\&^ E
It’s interesting to note that insurance has existed in some form for a very long time. The carliest insurance policies were what were called bottomry contracts. They provided shipping protection for merchants as far back as 3000 B.C.
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In general, the contracts were often no more than verbal agreements. They granted loans to merchants with the understanding that if a particular shipment of goods was lost at sea, the loan didn’t have to be repaid. Interest on the loans varied according to how risky it was to transport the goods. During periods of heavy piracy at sea, for example, the amount of interest and the cost of the policy went up considerably.
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So, you can see how insurance helped encourage international trade. Even the most cautious merchants became willing to risk shipping their goods over long distances—not to mention in hazardous weather conditions—when they had this kind of protection available.
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Generally speaking, the basic form of an insurance policy has been pretty much the same since the Middle Ages. There are four points that were salient then and remain paramount in all policies today. These were outlined in chapter six and will serve as the basis for the rest of today’s discussion. Can anyone tell me what one of those points might be? oVp ]h8q$H g
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(man)Located at the NASA Research Center in Iowa is a 5,000 gallon vat of water, and inside the ~ Z+H }+h&T&g
tank is an underwater treadmill designed by Dava Newman, an aerospace engineer. For four years Newman observed scuba divers as they simulated walking on the Moon and on Mars on her underwater moving bell. She wanted to discover how the gravity of the Moon and of Mars would affect human movement.
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To do this, Newman attached weights to the divers and then lowered them into the tank and onto the treadmill. These weights were carefully adjusted so that the divers could experience the underwater gravity of the Moon and of Mars as they walked on the treadmill. Newman concluded that walking on Mars will probably be easier than walking on the Moon. The Moon has less gravity than Mars does. so at lunar gravity, the divers struggled to keep their balance and walked awkwardly. But at Martian gravity the divers had grater traction and stability and could easily adjust to a pace of 1.5 miles per hour. As Newman gradually increased the speed of the treadmill, the divers took longer, graceful strides until they comfortably settled into an even quicker pace. Newman also noted that at Martian gravity, the divers needed less oxygen.9A-hR
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The data Newman collected will help in the future design of Martian space suits. Compared to lunar space suits, Martian space suits will require smaller air tanks; and. to allow for freer movement; the elbow and knee areas of the space suits will also be altered.
