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旧托福听力mp3及脚本——《第九天》（96年12月）
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I haven't seen you here for a couple of weeks. Have you stop eating or something?
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No. Does it look as I've stopped eating? I've been spending a lot of time in the library. $^M9~ n;GOmI7x
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I wish I were working on A paper. I was working on three different papers: anthropology, English lit, and history.
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Yeah. And what's frustrating is that I'm studying 19-century British Empire in all three classes. But I can't write a single paper for all the three.
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The professors won't let me. Even if I make it three times as long as the suggested length.
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Well, let's see. Hmm, Maybe you could do something with Romanticism, like, Ohh ---write you anthropology paper on a cultural basis of Romanticism; and your history paper on the influence of the Romantic poets on the British foreign policy; and---OK--- and your English paper on analysis of some Romantic poems.
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Hey. That's not a bad idea. I've already started the research for one of my papers. So I can use that. what can I do to repay you? V {*D5e\'CfZ`{b-I
You want wrap up my chemist lab for me?
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I'd love to. But I've never taken chemistry. So I'm not sure you like the results.
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Oh, well. No thanks necessary then. Have a good weekend. And try to get out of the library and get some sleep. You have big circles under your eyes. e w0c!~6K
OK. I'll try. See you later.
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Hi! Mitchell. Look what I've just found. Right here in the sand. A~ ?5MNL%J
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MM. Must've been in the water a long time. It could've been drifting in the ocean currents for months or even years. C7~*h] tN&D*y
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Well, sure. But the currents are always moving too. Almost like rivers.
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but underwater rivers flowing through the ocean.
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So how do they find out where these currents go? Stick a message in a bottle and throw it in the water? MmJ&b,f4W'N
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Don't laugh. In fact, I was reading in the Science magazine that oceanographers have released huge numbers of bottles into the ocean over the years. They want to map out where the currents will carry them. i h {)f8y*P] ^(i
Say. I'll bet after they've found out where all these bottles ended up, they could enter all that data into a computer and make a pretty detailed model to show where these currents go.
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In fact they did. And they also found they a neat way to test the model. there was a freighter carrying sneakers from a factory in Asia. It was caught in a big storm and thousands of pairs of sneakers got dumped into the Pacific Ocean. 3p-h,U Vj ]
Really? What a waste.
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Yeah. Turns out though that hundreds of these shoes started washing up on beaches somewhere hear Seattle. Just about where the computer models have predicted the currents would carry them.
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Gee. You mean all that stuff I've found on the beaches might be part of some big scientific experiment? I thought it was all just trash.
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I need to make sure you understand how to get housing for next year. When you entered as first year student this year, the school assigned you to a dorm and a roommate. But next year as returning students, you'll choose both your roommate and your dorm. But whether or not you actually get to live in your first choice depends on what number you or your roommate draws in the lottery system. The system gives priority to the students who have been here the longest. Fourth year students get the first block of numbers, third years get the second block and second years, like you'll be, get the third. The lower the number you draw, the sooner you choose. No. one gets the first choice, No. two gets the second choice, and so on. You can use either your own or your intended roommate's number to make your room choice. If your roommate for next year has been in the school longer than you have, they'll be in a better block of numbers and so will have a better number than any second year student. But most of you will probably be rooming with other second year students and so neither of you may have a great number. You may not get into your first or even second choice. Of course, if you've made plans to live off campus, you don't need to enter the lottery at all. Dorm space will be especially tight this year because the dorms on north campus will be closed for renovations. This means that those of you who draw the worst numbers won't be able to get dorm housing at all. In that case the housing office will help you find off campus housing. *?r!?b TPMM
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Before I tell you about the interesting discovery related to the tyrannosaurus rex, I need to review something we studied last semester: the difference between what we commonly called cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals. In warm-blooded animals, birds and mammals for examples, the body temperature normally stays within a narrow range no matter what the outside temperature is. As a result, a warm-blooded animal is usually active in both cold and hot weather because the body temperature can adjust to the temperature as in the environment. On the other hand, cold-blooded animals, such as most reptiles, amphibians and insects, are unable to create enough heat internally to raise their temperature above the temperature of the environment. So, for example, the temperature of a cold-blooded animal falls when the environment is cool. I hope this extension is clear. Now moving on to the tyrannosaurus rex, you may know that dinosaurs being reptiles are generally believed to have been cold-blooded. Well, a recent research study has found that a chemical composition of the bone of the tyrannosaurus rex was consistent with the bone of the animal that has a very narrow range of the internal temperature, indicating that it was probably warm-blooded.
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Thank you all for coming out this evening to meet sociologist Allen Lambert. Ms. Lambert specializes in research on work place and recently has been writing about the future of work. This topic should have been of special interest since I know many of you are already at the forefront of the work place technology. For example, let's have a show of hands to see how many people here telecommute at least part of the time. Mm, I see eight hands raised. Well, you eight folks who work at home and communicate with the office by the computer represent one of the trends Ms. Lambert has described. The people are becoming less tied to the work place. One of the important tools for telecommuting is electronic mail or email. Email let you send and receive messages almost immediately on your computer.
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But you control when you read them and when you respond to them. This technology allows people to have more control over time than one relying solely on the telephone. Our guest tonight will discuss how these important changes will alter the way we work. But before turning the floor over to Ms. Lambert, I would just like to remind you that she will be available to answer any individual questions at the reception immediately following the talk.
