旧托福听力mp3及脚本——《第四十二天》（2004年8月）

对话听写训练1：
$ ]8 ?; L. A6 F+ C# o1 t# E: `小马过河W：So you are up to some tennis this afternoon or what? [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]9 E4 X+ ]6 `# z0 f
  M:  Well, to tell you the truth, I’m not feeling so hot today.7 Q6 g0 |- U/ [5 I
  W:  Come on. How long has it been since we played.TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外/ ^; l# D0 c6 n" X* H  \
  M:  A couple of days.
8 n* J! ]8 a) K2 _小马过河-新托福专业备考社区  W:  A couple of days? Come on. It’s been more than a couple of days.
  g) p/ M5 ?" R- t9 D; Q: Y" F0 N/ V小马过河-新托福专业备考社区  M:  Yeah. I guess you’re right. It’ been almost a week .
! F% R; \0 D: Y. a7 W+ X [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]  W:  It’s been exactly a week. And we used to play at least three times this week.小马过河! G% o1 ^* c+ ?: ]  J1 v& M
  M:  I know. Playing right after classes was something to look forward to.
* ?- E2 k  x' k! _" F+ z7 _" m9 Bwww.xiaomaguohe.net  W:  Yeah. And it was right before dinner. So we build up our appetite.
! h. C% Y* O- [& O) ]5 XTOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外  M:  I’ve just been very busy. I guess. And my stomach is bothering today.
; Q* s8 u5 M( ~小马过河-新托福专业备考社区  W:  But you look ok to me.
- A  {; H/ n+ v. X0 iTOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外  M:  Well, I was up late with Steve in the library working on a project we got to do by tomorrow for that          anthropology class. We've been working on it all weekend. And I was drinking a lot of coffee. I guess. I just       drank too much.7 f$ D3 L! f0 o2 A6 B7 J) ~0 u% J! ^% t
  W:  Listen. I took that class last semester. And I could meet you in the library later tonight and help with if you       want. And then you have time to play tennis this afternoon.
% C! C2 r& Y2 ?* K3 R$ xwww.xiaomaguohe.net  M:  Yeah. I guess my stomach doesn’t hurt that bad. And I could certainly use your help. But it’s also….
+ X7 O, U5 @* C! d0 N4 `www.xiaomaguohe.net  W:  Is there something else bothering you?www.xiaomaguohe.net+ V/ ]0 `# ^( `
  M:  Well, to be honest., I’m getting tired…..and always losing.小马过河-新托福专业备考社区) X) m8 A& v! d8 p$ q' x

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) x+ R; L' ~! {7 v% E6 e* RM: How about a walk, Nancy?
1 k1 R. K" W5 ~  NW: Sure. Let’s go now before it gets dark.; `& P, f: `# a& ~
M: What’s your hurry?TOEFL,IBT,托福,新托福,机经,小马过河,留学,美国,海外( ?" S. ^2 E% ~$ k5 L
W: Haven’t you noticed? The street lights on campus are different. They gave off a hazy yellow glow that make some     colors fade out. It is not as much fun taking an evening walk as it was before.小马过河' t: I" R) B$ x3 m9 s) ~) H
M: Oh, you mean the new sodium bulbs. Yeah, that was in the newspaper. They make things look different alright. But     they provide better visibility than regular lighting. They are tuned to the colors in which human vision is the     sharpest and that section is amplified. The problem is that a lot of the colors are blocked out. [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]4 {& {( a7 X! S, X% Z
W: Well, I don’t feel comfortable when green looks like brown. Sodium bulbs might make sense for highway, though, if     they really do improve visibility so much.
6 K# y. [* j) x% N: T" v小马过河M: Yeah. And the interesting thing is that the new headlights on cars cancel out the adverse aspects of sodium     lighting and the colors appear natural again.
/ U7 y& i$ O) X' O' s  l3 J" bwww.xiaomaguohe.netW: Well, then sodium bulbs should be used only where there are a lot of cars. Why they are in places where I want to     take a quiet walk? The city must be trying to save money.小马过河- L9 u  `7 W- P% P4 s
M: It is. Sodium bulbs last about 7 times longer than regular bulbs. It can be that, I guess.
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I’d like to share with you today my experience with a new approach to building a house. It’s called Envelop Building. Essentially, what it means is that as you are building a house, you try to leave the landscape feature on the land, especially the vegetation in the original condition. So what you are not doing is the usual practice of land scraping. By which I mean literally scraping or cleaning the land of any and all the original plants. Why is the approach called Envelop Building? Because instead of clearing everything away, you let your original landscape elements envelop or surround your house. Let the vegetation physical features such as hills and slopes or interesting rock formations, constituted a significant part of the character of the building sight. The design of the house should take these features of the property into account. Actually integrating your original wild landscape with a house is not that new. The famous American architect Wright was doing it about 65 years ago. So we are in good company. Envelop Building is not as easy as it sounds though. It’s not just that you build your house and leave the land alone. By building, you are already damaging the original landscape. But as architects, we should try to work with environment, not against it. A creative architect can find ways to incorporate natural landscape into the overall design. For example, why used the massive boulders on the side of one of the most famous houses as part of the house foundation?www.xiaomaguohe.net" h. K  _& O4 V8 b

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Today we are going to talk about copyrighting works of art. A copyright is a proof of authorship. It protects artists against someone else using their work without their permission. It’s important to remember that United States Copyright Law protects artistic expressions such as paintings, but does not protect any ideas, concept, procedure or technique. In all the United States Copyright Law, Artists needed to take several steps to obtain copyright protection. The law as changed in 1978 and again 1989. For artists the current law means everything they create is automatically and immediately copyrighted. They don’t have to file any documents and under the protection of the Copyright Law, any recreation of their original work such as prints are also covered by the artists copyright. Further more, any changes artists made to their original works are covered. The Law also makes it clear that when someone buys the work of art, they are not allowed to destroy or change that work of art. Artists keep the copyright even after selling the work of art. The purchaser may buy the physical work, but the right to make prints or copies is still the artists’ and buyers does not automatically have any right to make and sell prints or copies of work. Although works are automatically copyrighted, artists are encouraged to register their work with United States Copyright Office. Registering art provides additional legal protection and also gives the people around the world the ability to approach the honors about licensing and purchasing right. [小马过河-新托福专业备考社区]) g5 b1 \/ L. h) P$ l

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4 [9 I% f0 M$ o$ Twww.xiaomaguohe.net  Today let’s talk about synesthesia, that’s a brain condition in which a person’s sense  are combined in a unusual ways. For example, a person with synesthesia may taste sounds. To them, a musical note may taste like a pickle. Many people who have synesthesia experience intense colors when they hear specific words. For example, they might see a flash of pink everytime they hear the word “jump”. For a long time, many scientists were unconvinced that synesthesia really exists. So in the 1990s an experiment was done to find our for sure. Two groups were studied. One was a group of people who claim to experience colors when they heard certain words. The other was a controlled group, people who experience nothing out of the ordinary when hearing words. Each group was asked to describe the colors they thought of when they heard a list of spoken words. When the test was repeated, the difference between the two groups was startling. After just a week, the controlled group gave the same answers only a third of the time. But even a year and a half later, the synesthetic group gave the same answers 92% of the time. Clearly, this is not just a matter of memory. Scientists are still not sure just why synesthesia happens. But certain drugs are reportedly able to produce it artificially. So we all probably have brains with connections that could synesthesia. It’s just the connections normally we used in that way.