旧托福听力mp3及脚本——《第三十二天》（2002年1月）

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+ m' V/ v' O. u, T7 u [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]Woman: oh, Jack, I’m glad I caught you. I want to tell you I have to skip the history study group session tonight.`小马过河-新托福专业备考社区  {3 r4 C7 t0 y$ A- j
Man: Really? That’s too bad. Aren’t you feeling well? [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]2 q6 h+ J0 W+ d; ?
Woman:  oh, it’s not bad. It’s going to be a public meeting down at the town hall. The state senator from this area www.xiaomaguohe.net* t+ k9 M' J) ?
is going to be there. She had this meeting three or four times a year to speak with her constituency.
6 N) F* ?/ i4 s  gwww.xiaomaguohe.netMan: Is that what you’d like to do with your evenings, go and listen to politicians?
% B* O' E- _0 V) n  G7 Iwww.xiaomaguohe.netWoman: actually, it’s a class assignment. Prof Jackson, he’s teaching that political science seminar I’m taking. He
/ [: E4 q0 |' a1 \; K; Gwww.xiaomaguohe.nettold all of us in the seminar to go in and hear what the senator has to say tonight and also write up a report about 小马过河-新托福专业备考社区5 C, y. s% {1 T0 e- {
the issues people bring up.
% I' s0 ]6 V# {$ X4 C0 h9 O- hwww.xiaomaguohe.netMan: oh, like medical care, and tax and…?; ^) N& I) S8 u/ U
Woman: right, as long as I’m there, I think I’d like to bring up government funding for state universities. The 小马过河-新托福专业备考社区' q# n% {. {3 P$ g  K% @9 Y. Y
tuition keeps going up and it’s getting harder and harder for a lot of students to afford it.小马过河-新托福专业备考社区9 J5 |5 E% X" d# F% L$ G7 I7 J8 J
Man: tell me about it.
2 d. |7 ?4 ^! V$ J& GWoman: anyway, I want to do a really good job on this report. I need to get a letter of recommendation from Prof TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外- P2 H3 f5 ^2 ]* s% J
Jackson for graduate school. So I guess I’d better show up there tonight and see what’s going on.
1 ^' b+ D8 Y8 K& ~0 V小马过河Man: Yeah, but, what about the history test?
- S/ X; _, L' owww.xiaomaguohe.netWoman: Well, I already put in some extra time on that this morning. So I think by tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be ready.TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外1 w7 G4 @1 D" w( |+ O" B* f/ ~) A

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% t  t, p$ D+ Fwww.xiaomaguohe.netA:I just finished reading a book of short story by Hemlen Garlen called Main Traveled Road. I really TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外$ o* I4 Y5 a  n% I# g. v/ u( G
enjoy it. Have u ever read it?
' R/ u% W! b8 H* q& lTOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外B: Yes, it was a required reading in American literature course I took last year, even though its fiction, you get a
# F1 f. {$ n' D0 [# j2 p小马过河-新托福专业备考社区realistic picture of the hard life people had back on American frontier. I don’t think I would survive 19 century [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]$ a+ ~4 J5 I3 E6 |. d/ g$ x
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A: Me neither. Remember that story among the car roads. Garlen gives a vivid description of Julie Peterson, that young immigrant girl, she had to work on her family farm.www.xiaomaguohe.net! `4 t& Y+ I2 n& v' T
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A: Well when Julie feels exhausted, and she is wishing she can escape from her hard labor, she looks over her father
, \3 L: h: ^/ x* N, }7 wwww.xiaomaguohe.networking in the next field. And she is inspired to continue her own work.
# T* W8 p- Z& ~  hTOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外B: I do remember that story. Garlen really captures the spirit of hard work that was so typical of immigrants and
- Z" u9 K' r* Z [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]pioneers who settled the American Midwest. It’s difficult to image that nothing seems to discourage them for long.
3 e: \5 Y# f' M; f! H5 | [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]A:I wonder how Garlen learn so much about the Midwest. Wasn’t he from Boston?
5 N; I* A. v/ t2 BTOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外B: He lived in Boston. In fact, he studied and taught in Boston School of Oritory, but I think he was born in . O5 b2 N7 u2 o: n7 O& E
Lawcarbinlen, Wincosin. He did grow up in Midwest.
6 b3 z0 I( Q' @5 A* Q; I$ Gwww.xiaomaguohe.netA: No wonder his descriptions are so good, I’m going to take this book back to the library now and see what other TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外/ Q. p/ r6 U& E1 A, ?9 W( ]( \
Garlen’s works I can find.
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This is our last meeting before the campers arrive tomorrow. I’ll give you the activity schedules later. But, now I
6 R' r& s' x1 M' }) P+ q9 P+ L小马过河-新托福专业备考社区want to answer a question one of you asked me yesterday about campers with asthma. Let me explain a little about the disease. First of all, it’s chronical and very common. 20 million people in the United States alone have it. It 小马过河-新托福专业备考社区- D8 c: {; {! E, s% ]# a. Y) S
affects the bronchial tubes that are the airways of the lungs. During normal breathing, air is drawn in through the 小马过河, m, }+ C& }% M) U6 `4 }1 |7 R
mouth and nose, and eventually makes its way into the bronchial tubes. The asthma patient’s bronchial tubes are very sensitive, and easily irritated by exercises or strength, exposure to allergy or pollution, or breathing in cold air, www.xiaomaguohe.net: R. S2 A1 D& o8 \8 c. J
cigarettes smoke. When asthmatic suffers an attack, the airway path was constricted, making it difficult for the TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外' }8 E: \: r* ~- x6 Y- C
person from breathing normally. If a camper in your group has even a mild asthma, you would be informed and given [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]: V. ]/ G& ^3 u6 g$ E% h/ Z
further instruction about what to do in case of an attack. But don’t worry. Some of our campers might have a mild
( j3 `# F3 C5 g1 y+ I8 a8 m& wTOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外case, but they always bring their medicines with them and we never have a problem. Are there any other questions? Ok, then let’s talk about the schedule for tomorrow.
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  U  o6 }: E9 ~' `www.xiaomaguohe.netToday most astronomers accept the notion that groups of stars that make up the universe are all moving farther and
$ H6 F$ M* }1 E+ B小马过河-新托福专业备考社区farther away from each other but until fairly recently this idea of an expanding universe was not a theory most
9 m7 p9 \/ g7 S$ d, a# YTOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外European scholars believed in since ancient times and up to about the 17th century most of these scholars thought the size of the universe have remained unchanged since the moment of its creation or perhaps forever, with all the stars remaining more or less in place in relation to each other but that was challenged in the late 17th century by Izic
5 e& `$ m4 I; s2 n9 c% g( n [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]Newton’s idea of gravity as a force of attraction, which contradicted the idea of a university that is static,
3 w8 k! b9 n/ J6 w- f/ L( aunchanging. If gravity causes all the stars out there in space to attract each other as Newton said, then they could 小马过河- P; Y, J' M0 {. m7 Q1 J
remain essentially motionless. Sooner or later all the stars will fall toward each other well, scientists then propose [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]7 E, M* w& A6 Y/ O7 |# Z$ }7 z
a new model, taking Newton’s theory into account, they didn’t want to abandon the idea of motionless stars, but for
2 a! n+ h) y% J+ pwww.xiaomaguohe.netthis model to work, so the stars won’t fall in eachother, they had to modify Newton’s law of gravity, so they
4 R  c6 J/ r* Z# P小马过河-新托福专业备考社区theorize that for distance as large as those between stars, the gravitational force repels rather attracts. As you
6 {# m& X9 C9 |  l! N: a$ qwww.xiaomaguohe.netmight guess, this other contradictions. But this is prettily resolved in the past centuries by currently accepted
; S) ?+ j) {+ k9 I. i5 O! N小马过河theory, which says the universe is continuously expanding. You’ll be reading about all that as your homework tonight.
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6 G# u4 I  D4 _3 \: O- F/ Y [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]On Monday we talked about insects, and how they gather food. Today I’d like to talk about the common garden spider and how it captures its prey with the round net-like structure it first produced almost 200 million years ago. I mean, of course a spider web. What’s interesting is why such a delicate structure isn’t ripped a part. When a fast-flying insect crashes into it, and compared with the spider, these insects can be huge and really heavy. In fact capturing a large insect in a spider web could be compared to capture an airplane in a fishing net. So, how can the web absorb such a shock without breaking? Is it just because the silk-like thread is made of so strong? well, experts analyze spider webs using a computer program ,one designed for crash testing cars and they found the structure of the web, the way of threads connected together helps balance the strength and tensions caused by the impact and spread them all across the web this saves the web from being destroyed and by the way, suggests some creative new ideas that human might use in designing buildings. The big surprise, though, is the role of air resistance in cushioning the shock of collision. The computer model showed that dragging a tiny thread from a spider web through the air is a lot like pulling a heavy rope through water. And since air resistance acts on many threads all across the web ,its amazing effect that multiplies many times. And this definitely helps the web survive the impact.