旧托福听力mp3及脚本——《第四十一天》（2004年5月）

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2 @' P$ L) h# @+ ], swww.xiaomaguohe.netA: What’s up Marcy? U seemed to be in a good moon today.小马过河9 p7 x6 c/ r. r# A. G, b6 P
B: I guess I am. It’s the new printer I just bought for my computer.
* d( N0 k) k2 t小马过河-新托福专业备考社区A: Hey, that’s terrific.
4 g+ z' f* R& g8 X% r; P8 O [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]B: Thanks.
* `) z7 R) ~; I1 T4 ~5 N; ]TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外A: It’s good I can charge it to my credit card though. if I’d had to come up with that much cash on the spot, I just wouldn’t be able to afford it.
8 z8 ~2 v7 Y* d# }$ v- Q小马过河-新托福专业备考社区B: U know, I’m doing a term paper on that for my economic seminar. I read that a lot people in the world would be able to support themselves and their families much better if they could start their own businesses. But usually the bank won’t lend them money they need to start it. Often, if u don’t have property or other assets, they won’t give u even the smallest loan.
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B: Exactly. But now there’re something known as micro-credit. That’s what we call very small loans that enable people to go into business for themselves. In Southern Asia micro-credit programs were set up to lend people that regular banks even wouldn’t look at.
( S- k* e3 I, K& M) }! twww.xiaomaguohe.netA: And the borrowers used the money？小马过河& ^3 V6 l! x( G$ N; s
B: To buy tools and materials for producing cloth or food or whatever that they can sell to make a little money to feed their families and also start to pay back the loan, and then they can borrow a little more and make a little more profit. And…www.xiaomaguohe.net$ O, g& O4 ^2 d! y. R
A: And the lenders get their money back?小马过河-新托福专业备考社区) f# V) Q. @8 y3 h# o2 K
B: With interest. It’s been so successful that now micro-credit lending is spreading to other parts of the world too, even to North America. That’s what my paper will be about.小马过河-新托福专业备考社区. ?7 B, `4 }% \1 S2 }3 i% c
A: Say, do u need someone to type it for u? My rates are reasonable, and it’ll look really nice when I print it out. www.xiaomaguohe.net0 f" \* k5 H9 u. H' m& N
B: On your new printer? Hey, how could I say no.
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对话听写训练2：
" [4 b9 T) w" a4 ?4 ^小马过河A: I think I’ve finally decided what to write my paper about. It’s a new museum right near the Capitol building in Washington D.C.
' B0 [0 ^0 ?8 `3 l  x0 B小马过河-新托福专业备考社区B: Really? I picked a museum too, a science museum up in Alberta, Canada. They look sort of like spaceship.TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外5 v1 t" w. \6 r0 N
A: Say I read about that. It was built about 20 years ago, I think by the same architect who designed the building I’m interested in. Douglas Cardinal. 小马过河-新托福专业备考社区& R7 q' ^# u0 V2 N: j
B: That’s him! But I can’t image Cardinal designing anything in the traditional classical style of the Capitol.* _3 h* j+ Z0 u/ N5 t7 y5 Y
A: Well this new structure has to fit in with the architecture of the Capitol, but its style is anything but traditional. I don’t mean that it’s one of those big glass boxes they call modern architecture though. Instead of rectangles and straight lines, this build has rounded free form shapes and sweeping curves. It supposes to represent the natural forms like the Canyon cliffs in the western states, rock formations that were shaped by water and the wind.
5 M8 {4 I1 z# t% ]6 @! ]* m  ^2 G小马过河B: Sounds fantastic. But I wonder why that sort of style would be chosen for a building in Washington D.C.
. U6 A* g0 }) M% J小马过河A: That’s easy. This place is called the National Museum of American Indian. And it’s devoted to exhibits of Native American cultures, including those of the west. And for Cardinal this is his own family heritage too. And in designing this museum he was careful to respect the various Native American values and traditions, like paying attentions to the directions of winds and the position of the sun in different seasons of the year.小马过河# F% X* z6 k. r) h9 G: H
B: Wow, an untraditional building, designed to show case some of north American’s oldest traditions. Interesting!小马过河-新托福专业备考社区/ _- O+ D  |9 Z

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Today let’s consider the neutrino and the resolves of some experiments down in the 1995 at the Los Alamos national laboratory in New Mexico, which bear on the neutrino. These resolves suggest that this little particle does indeed have mass that tiny bet to be sure but measurable by the very sensitive instruments of that lab. The neutrino’s origin has always been an interesting case, though a case not unusual in the history of physics. As you know, ordinarily scientific observation precedes scientific theory. Ocean tides were observed, ocean tides were explained; gravity is observed, gravity is explained. However, let’s consider what happened in the neutrino’s case. When the neutrino was proposed over sixty years ago, it was a convenient fiction. Scientists had not observed such a particle nor even as a fact. So what let them to conceive of this imaginary object? They had been writing equations about neutron decay in which the energy amounts on each side of their equations were unequal. In order to keep this energy amounts the same on both sides of the equations, they added little particle named neutrino and gave it precisely enough energy to balance the equations and the loan be hold years later. About thirty-five years ago real neutrinos were found. Now we have the more recent developments. Originally, the neutrino was thought not to have any mass at all. But Los Alamos experiments seem to disprove this premise. They indicated that neutrinos do have mass—about one-millionth the mass of electron.
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演讲听写训练2：
6 Z. K  {3 y4 V% J/ E7 [9 M/ Iwww.xiaomaguohe.netThe forests of New England constituted both are resource and barrier for the first British settlers who reach these shores. In addition to the maples, firs, oaks and birches were white pines whose scientific name is Pinus strobus. These white pines were straight and tall, perfect for use as masts on the sailing ships of the time. Britain had used up its supply of mast trees, so is eager for this product of its young colony. By the first load of masts reached Britain in 1634 and Britain was marveled the size of the trees, which had diameters of up to 4 feet at the wide end. For every yard of mast height, the body end needed to be one inch in diameter. In1705, Britain passed a law stating that all white pines over 24 inches at the body end were reserved for the use of king’s navy. Such trees were marked by blazing the king’s arrow symbol on the tree with three cuts of the hatchet. These trees were selected by the surveyor general, whose work often met with resistances of colonists.  小马过河1 N. D1 `7 U7 H( B

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) n, \( e- S) ^1 V0 @  zNow the Australia jumping spider as you can image got its name for its ability to leap. But it can swim too. What’s most interesting though is its ability to use try and error tactics when solving problems. Now the jumping spider attacks and eats other spiders. It’ll sit at the edge of another spider's web and attract the spider by tapping out different signals to mimic the struggles of a trapped insect and it’ll keep changing the signals till successfully lured its prey out. Well, to see if the jumping spider could apply the same problem solving technique, try and error to unfamiliar situations, scientists conducted an experiment. They field a trap full of water and then put some sand in the middle, like an island. In between the island and the edge of the trap, they put a rock. When they put the spider on the island, some tried jumping to the rock, and some tried swimming. All the spiders that successfully reached the rock either by jumping or by swimming use the same method to make it from the rock to the edge of the tree. If the spider failed to reach the rock, it was placed back on the island, but the next time they try to leave, spiders did opposite of whatever didn’t work the first time, leaping if it had swum, or swimming if it had leaped. So we see the spiders using the same try and error in crossing the water as they used in hunting.