我也是犯困！！！（就是听写不犯困，嘿嘿，阅读、背单词就睡着了 ）
5 C3 Y1 C9 s9 C7 f' @" T. p& a求救：麻烦高人去我那一趟，我的好多的问题没有解决  

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开始听写在：2008-5-16 下午 08:51:14( g) t! D2 I/ Z* F( J
Listen to part of a talk in an architecture class, as you probably know, log structures are gaining popularity, they are no longer just as the simple of the country homes that we think of as the traditional[ly] log [on] cabin[et], some upscale{['ʌpskeil]a.高标度端的}[obscure] homes [in]now incorporate {[in'kɔ:pəreit] v.合并}natural round logs in ceiling beams and walls, people seem to think the rounded logs give their home [them] a cozy, [and] warm atmosphere, and even people who want to built a traditional log cabin on their own can buy a kit {[kit] n.装备,工具箱}[kids] with precut{v.按规格裁切} logs that fit together like [the] pieces of a jigsaw{['dʒigsɔ:] vt.用竖锯锯}puzzle, before showing you some slides of modern log houses, I’d like to [ll] give you a little {bit} historical background on the subject, log cabins were first built in late sixteen hundreds along the Delaware river valley, the European immigrants who settled there, brought century-old traditions of working with logs, and [they habitat] in this heavily wooded area, logs were the material at hand, log cabins were most popular in the early eighteen hundreds, with the settlers who were moving west, they provided the [a] answer to the pioneer’s need [live] for a safe and sturdy { ['stə:di] a.强健的,健全的}[steady] home that an ordinary family could build quickly, they had dirt floors and sliding boards for windows, but the log building have probably had most influence on modern architects are those of mountain retreats of wealthy New Yorkers, these country houses, which were popular in the early nineteen hundreds, typify [to define] what’s know as the Adirondack style, now let’ look at those slides.
. P0 |# B  b# \5 c1. What does the speaker mainly discussing?
! X# w( h- j5 p& S2. According to the speaker, what gives modern log home their warm atmosphere?
+ m" E9 J/ {# l5 X! A4 r& ]" Q3. Why did early settlers using logs for building homes? , t0 J, y: _2 S9 _8 q
4. According to the speaker, why were log cabin especially popular with settlers who move west?5 [/ d/ n! X/ ]7 {' Q4 j, M( H
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4 r% d! a, p$ q; l$ ZListen to this talk being give on college campus, I was really glad when your club invited me to share my coin collection, it’s being my passion since I collected my [the] first Lincoln cent in nineteen seventy one, that’s the current penny with Abraham Lincoln’s image, just a little history before I start[ed] in on my own coin collection, Lincoln pennies are made of copper, and they were the first United Sates coin to8 p/ Z. ]3 T3 i$ A" l
bear {具有，带有}[bare]the likeness{n.肖像}of a [the] president, it was back in nineteen zero nine when the country was celebrating the centennial {[sen'teniəl] n.百年纪念} [sentinel] of Lincoln’s birth in [at] eighteen zero nine that[but] the decision [design] was made to [we] redesign the [on it] one cent pennies for his honor, before that [back], the penny had an American Indian head on it, the new penny was designed by artist Victor David Brenner, this is interesting because he put his [an] initial VDB on the reverse of the coin in its original design, there were a general uproar{['ʌprɔ:]n.喧嚣,骚动}when the initials were discovered, and only a limited number[s] of the coins were struck with the [in] initials on them, today a penny with the [an] initial from the San Francisco and Mint called the ninety zero nine’s VDB, is worth over five hundred dollars, now when I started my coin collection, I began with the penny for several reasons, there are a lot of them, several hundred billion have been minted [were], and there were a lot of people collecting them, so [though] I had plenty of [planning] people to trade with and talk to about my collection, also, it was the coin I could afford to collect as a young teenager, in my twenty five years since then, I’ve managed to acquire over three hundred [of] coins, some of them [were] very rare, I’ll be sharing with you today [in] some of my rarer specimens, including the nineteen zero nine’s VDB.- X8 e8 U/ D! _3 @' \
1. Why does the woman collect coins?
9 W( N9 E9 i% I( D" ^; v! P2. Why was the letters VDB on some pennies?
$ `: ^2 Y+ S6 h. S$ y3. What was one of the reasons does the speaker collecting coin as a teenager?
1 L9 Y: r! C6 H% S6 A' A- ^' B4. What’ll the speaker do next?
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73. 历史20
, n: e, B3 S( [, ~/ O开始听写在：2008-5-16 下午 10:53:12, N# O1 V! Y+ t
Listen to a talk in the class about United States history, one of the most popular myths [maps] the United States in the nineteen century was that of the free and simple life of the famer, it was said that farmers worked hard3 I( M9 ~5 A: q$ J& T0 m7 h, ?
[were tart] on their own land to produce whatever their families needed, they might sometimes trade with neighbors, but in general they could get along just fine, by relaying on themselves, not on commercial ties with others, this is how Tom Jefferson idealize the famer at the beginning of the nineteen century, and, at that time, this may have been closed [enclosed] to the truth, especially on the frontier, but by mid century, sweeping changes in agriculture were well under way as farmers began to specialize[d] in the raising of crops such as cotton or corn or wheat, by late in the century, revolutionary advances in farm machinery had vastly increase production of [for] specialized crops, and the extensive network of railroads had linked farmers throughout the country, to market in the east and [or] even overseas, by raising and selling specialized crops, famers could afford more about finer good and achieve a much standard of living, but at a [add] price, now, famers were no longer dependent just on the weather and their own [narrow] efforts, their lives were [for] increasingly controlled by banks, which had power to grant{[grɑ:nt]n.拨款vt.授予,同意,承认} or deny loans for new machinery, and by the railroads, which set the rates for shipping their crops to market, as businessmen, farmers now had to worry about national economic depressions, and influence of world supply and demand [depend] on man, for example, the price of wheat [split] in Kansas, and so, by the end of nineteen century, the era of Jefferson’s independent farmers had come to a close.
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2. According to the professor, what is the major change in agricultural during the nineteen century? % c* K: H: r% r9 p2 ~# `" \. Z
3. According to the professor, what was one result in use of the new machinery on farms in the United States?8 W6 e8 U! e4 `; J" H/ Y! K
4. According to the professor, why were world market important for the United States culture?
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3 b. [+ {5 Z3 m9 I9 q/ h! b8 H/ }5 X开始听写在：2008-5-17 上午 12:30:00$ o! b3 m% r- e  q; Q8 D; D1 w+ Q
Listen to a talk in a mass communication’s class, moving away from newspapers, let’s now focus on magazines, now, the first magazine was a little periodical{n.期刊}called the review, and it was stated in London in seventeen zero four, it looked a lot like the newspapers of [at] the time, but in terms of it’s content, it was much different, newspapers were concerned mainly with news events, but the review focused on important domestic[ated] issues of the day, as well as the policies of the government, but in England at the time, people could still be thrown in jail for [on the] publishing articles that were critical of the king, and that is what happened to Daniel Defoe, he was the outspoken{a.直言的,坦率的}founder of the review, Defoe actually wrote the first issue of the review from prison [in person], you see, he has been arrested because his writing was criticized the policies of the church of England, which was headed by the king, after his release, Defoe continued to produce the review, and the magazine started to appear on a [in the] more frequent schedule, about three times a week, it didn’t take long for other magazines to start popping [pump] up
0 N, g$ `& E! r4 l9 T! `. K! `, I( s% }{pop up突然出现,冒出来}, in seven zero nine, a magazine called the tatler began publication, this new magazine contained the political analysis, and philosophical essays.
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' a- S% H0 i- @( x4 @2. What is significant about the review?6 g, k9 ]  x; ?! T
3. According to the speaker, how was the review different from the early newspapers?' T* w0 v# r" l5 y" C( I+ \9 \
4. Why was Dannie Defoe arrested?
, @( O6 h. ?/ g9 C' R8 d* ~& `5. What does the speaker say about the?7 {: T0 {5 U. ^5 O1 s8 s, ]6 @
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75. 历史228 C# x) a; K, _% Q# @/ t
开始听写在：2008-5-17 上午 01:02:19* k( z3 ~& h* ^" F1 \% q# L
Listen to a talk given by an art history professor, there is an art exhibition here [artist observation give] on campus [calendar that] which ties in [on] well with the [was] discussions we had [pad] about folk art, it is an exhibition [the observation] of wildlife [like] art calendars from [for] about a hundred years ago, like most other folk art [focus], the calendar [they account] pictures were not considered [concern] to be art in their own [all] day, people just thought of [able to start] them as a way of decorating a practical object, in fact, the calendar pictures were originally printed [rationally predict] as advertising for various [barriers] companies that made hunting [harding] or fishing [fiction] products, like guns or fishing rods{n. 竿} [of fictions wards], the calendars were handed out [the] free to customers to thank them for their business, most people just hung the calendars on the walls where the [and were their] pictures faded in [painted] the sun, and then tore the picture[s] off the calendar as each month passed, as a result, collectors today place [play] a lot of value on calendars that are complete and in good condition, even though the people used the counters didn’t regard them as art [the messed], the[y] original paintings the prints were made from were often of [a] good quality, in fact, many famous wildlife [like] painters were created calendar art at [count in] some point of their lives, to them, it [then they] was a way to getting their work [away] reproduced and [them] shown around, one aspect of the exhibit [they used to] that I find very interesting is the way the painters reflect changing attitudes toward wildlife, the pictures in the exhibit often portray the thrill[θril]{n.震颤,激动}and
8 J2 v" x( _" J) O# K3 ?& V$ n# u3 V% Lthrough of adventure7 T; P; a* m- s+ I6 t8 R
of hunting [party] rather than any particular concern for wildlife preservation, but most of today’s wildlife art [are] shows animals in their nature surroundings, without any [the] humans in the scene [machine], this modern [the smart] wildlife appeals[ə'pi:l]{v.求助,诉请,呼吁}[appeared] large numbers of nature lovers, even those who [though] oppose [d] the practice of hunting [honey].
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" }. }' `# L% _9 n; m' LAccording to the speaker, why is it difficult to find calendar pictures that are in good condition?
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* d0 `$ m) x$ U& M- e# _4 @What was the theme of many early wildlife calendars?$ A, w$ C0 S7 R2 T& U
4. According to the speaker, why did artists want to produce work for calendars?' ~# }9 G  e9 ]% C' I1 t
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76. 历史23
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2 C. \6 p# G8 X5 e8 tListen to an art historian give a talk in the museum, welcome to the largest retrospective{[.retrəu'spektiv]a.回顾的,怀旧的,
+ i5 H0 z! v9 C6 Z' ?0 N作品回顾展}[extra art] exhibit this art museum has ever devoted to an architect, the architect[ure’s] chosen for this honor [designer] is Frank Lloyd Wright, probably the greatest United States architects in twentieth century, Wright has the reputation of being arrogant['ærəgənt]{a}.傲慢的,自大的[elegant] and insensitive [incentive] to his client’s{['klaiənt] n.顾客} [its cline] needs, but his work is based on a set of principles rather than a [the] style, because of his belief in unity of design and the elimination of unnecessary [on] detail, he resisted his client’s wishes to introduce [cline was produce] what he called foreign objects to his carefully designing interiors [materials], Frank Lloyd Write always tried to achieve harmony of building and setting, the first drawing in the[se] exhibit, of [is] one of his prairie [priary] houses, illustrate{['iləstreit] v.举例说明,作图解} [it was the straight] the integration of the house with the landscape of the American mid-west, you can see % E/ ], F  D; B4 l+ `# H
how he stress the horizontal [the strive oriental] line with spreading roofs and strips{n.特性}[stripe] of windows, outside porches [pouches] stretch in to the gardens, making one harmonious whole, because of this [the] goal of harmony, you won’ t see skyscrapers among his designs, Wright was criticized for his impractical house with leaky{['lɪ:kɪ] adj.漏的;有漏洞的}[of weakly] flat roofs, but his houses also had great virtues [vultures], the design of the prairie houses, for example, made them warm in winter and cool in summer, the drawings and photos in this exhibit will [were] show the enormity {[ɪ'nɔːmətɪ]n.巨大，极为重要} of
! H' i8 d" z+ E6 R+ a3 YFrank Lloyd Wright’s contribution to [of the] modern architecture.
$ Y% _; h' y+ A7 m4 i" y- S1. What is the purpose of the talk?' x- D- o2 ?) b" o5 G
2. How would the speaker characterize for Frank Lloyd Wright?. u/ z# Z/ |* i1 v9 D6 q8 ]
3. According to the speaker, what does the drawings of the prairie hones show?& O' y0 P7 d- e: r+ E3 R
4. Why does the speaker mention skyscrapers?
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, `3 r8 r; h0 i; K9 t* B开始听写在：2008-5-17 下午 08:21:59/ m  ?) M  k* }: f/ E& w! S0 m2 ^
Listen to part of the talk in the class on interior{[ɪn'tɪər]n.内部}design, the next style of furniture design I’d like to discuss is shaker furniture design, the shakers are [our] religious group that is flourished in the nineteenth-century United states, at that time, the shakers lived in their own [the old] communities and believed in living simply, this ideal implicitly extended [is send] to their furniture design, as you will see, because the shape of the furniture wasn’t supposed to be unnecessarily decorative, the furniture’s surface became the only place to create visual pleasure, shake furniture use light colored woods, like pine [palms], maple{['meipl]n.枫树}or cherry{['tʃerɪ]n.樱桃树}, it was often painted with green, blue, or yellow, as these slides show, some of their most interesting pieces were made for the workplace, notice that this sewing table has drawers that can be pulled [drawing to put] out from either [other] side, this feature enables two people to sew at the same time, likewise{adv.同样地, 也}, if you look closely at this slides of counters{n.柜台,厨房操作台} and workbenches, you’ll notices that these pieces were also designed to be used for more than one side, thus, several people would be able to work at one time, nowadays, [the] shake furniture design’s enjoying a [the] revival, the[se] simple but stylish [established] furniture made by the shakers is [of] popular among affluent{['æflʊənt] adj.富裕的; 富饶的; 丰富的; 流畅的}collectors, including such celebrities as Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfery [labricities were still called the end over win print], as you’ve seen, the plainness['plain·ness || 'pleɪnɪs]
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/ t" z+ e; s, i; Rof shake [print the] furniture makes it strangely [strain] modern in appearance, in fact, their austere{[ɒ'stɪə] adj.严峻的, 简朴的}, [there are still] minimalist{['mɪnɪməlɪst]a.
- o: A$ _9 H1 N5 o2 J5 `极简抽象派艺术的}designs influenced several modern furniture designers, some of whom [them] we’ll discuss[ed] next.+ k/ L( d  H+ W; @6 c. ?7 B2 e
1. What does the speaker say about the wood used to make shake furniture?
& T+ ~' ?0 q# h! b7 m2. What does the speaker say is an important characteristic of shake work place furniture?, K: h) p! f; I: _) |4 d. K
3. What will the class probably discuss next?
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78. 历史25
9 D* k7 ]' I: s; _" b4 r开始听写在：2008-5-17 下午 08:51:363 ^* f( O; o& z5 D" M
Listen to a talk given in a history class, today, I want to talk about the Cariboo gold rush in eighteen fifty eight, which began when gold was discovered in the frontier town of Quesnel Forks in the Canadian province of British Columbia, by eighteen sixty one thousands of men have flocked [flux] to the region hoping to strike{v.发现、找到（埋于地下的石油、天然气、黄金突然致富}it [stract in] rich, naturally, as the town grew, supplies have to be brought in [broading], and this was done with mules, now the mules were quiet reliable, but there were some drawbacks, for example, a mule carrying a heavy load could travel only fifteen miles a day, meaning that a typical trip into the Quesnel could take it as long as twenty days, so, it demand for supplies continue to grow, a group of merchants and packers{n.包装工人} decided to try a new approach, believe it or not, they shipped [shaped] in a herd of camels, I know that sounds strange, but camel trains{n. 行列} had been [happen] used quiet effectively during the California gold rush some ten years earlier, but the results in the Cariboo region weren’t quiet the same, in fact it was a disaster, the camels couldn’t carry the heavy loads for merchants expected them to, their two-toed [toad] feet were perfect [adapt] for desert travel, but they weren’t suited for Cariboo’s rugged{adj.高低不平的, 粗糙的, 崎岖的} [rigid] mountain terrain, to make matters worth, the mules became very agitated{a.焦虑的，不安的} [to make the] whenever they came across a [the] camel, and that caused a lot of accidents on the- N0 W! Q: u& w9 c
treacherous{['tretʃərəs]adj.背叛的, 奸诈的, 背信弃义的} mountain trails, the mule packers went so far to threaten {vt.威胁,恐吓;扬言要 (+with) } [travel that] the camel owners for [loss] lawsuit{n.诉讼,控诉}, but the reason the merchants finally got rid to [raise] the camels is because these animals simply weren’t cut out for the job. {9 G* [2 ]$ R# X) _2 l8 t% c
be cut out for适合担任}
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' X, I2 P5 R! h! U! R2. According to the speaker, how were mules used in the frontier town of?
  f2 y+ s  j0 y5 w3. What was the problem with using mules?: z* b) ]) D0 Q& @
4. In what way were camel were not adapt to the region?
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' Y# |9 @  P) {7 ?5 {8 K. P; L- m开始听写在：2008-5-17 下午 09:24:181 ~8 g5 Z, h* B2 D; `
Listen to a talk in an art history class, today, we are going to continue our discussion of modern arts and talk about Charles Csuri, Charles Csuri has been a part in many modern art movements, he’s work in Pop art, Cubism {n. 立体派}, [kappa, sovilism] and conceptual art, but he made his mark as a pioneer in computer art,6 d4 |0 g, y2 |' q7 g: a
{make one’s mark as…扬名,成功}9 e; A& f# U% S, ?4 c% w7 k( Q, J
even long before computers became popular, he was punching [the panssion] cards{punch card 穿孔卡片}and feeding them into the big mainframe{['meɪnfreɪm]n.主机}[pigment] of computer at Ohio state university, in the beginning, he had to work without a [the] monitor, so he was1 x7 P  Y; X9 Q) U
virtually{['vɜrtʃəlɪ]adv.事实上, 实质上}[actually] creating art in the dark, he even learn the computer programming so he could experiment with this new tool, through these computer, Csuri has been able to explore a new world of possibilities, for example, the computer enables him to sculpt{[skʌlp(t)]v.雕刻} [scope] in three [conceive] dimensions, also, he can look at the sculpture from any angle, and move{d} it around, change the location of the light source, or he can copy it in different colors, over the years, Csuri received numerous grants for various projects, this money allowed him to train students in computer graphics{['græfɪk]adj.绘画似的; 图解的}and animation techniques, and to advance the computer as the medium for artists, even though he [the way] uses [of] modern technology, Csori still insists he is creating art[s], he’s always told his student to keep the issues of [to] art in focus, and not get so caught up in [at] the technology that you [the] forget about the image.0 y$ I0 K: B" @6 }% Y" j) U# j
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2. Why did the speaker say Csuri was creating in the dark?
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3 u$ A7 W- Z: VListen to a tour guide in a museum, and as we enter this [actually into the] next gallery, please turn your attention to the statue on your right, it’s a bust of the seventh president of [in] the United States, Andrew Jackson, it was done by American sculptor Hiram Powers, Mr. Powers is particularly significant to our sculpture collection [in] here at the [is a] metropolitan museum of art, his statue entitled [in type of] California, was the first work by an American artist to become part of the collection at the met [of the mass], but back to this piece, when Powers was modeling{v.做…的模型，塑造} [meldowing] this bust, he ask the president, who was sixty year old at the [that] time, if he [you] wanted to be made to appear younger than that, president [but] Jackson replied he didn’t, so as you can see, he shown here with wrinkles and lines{n. 轮廓} of ageing etched on [in] face, consequently, this bust is considered to be one of the most realistic portrayals of Andrew Jackson, Powers traveled from his studio in [to] Italy to the white house to do the regional study for [in] the bust, he did the study in clay, but he sculpted [got] the final statue from fine Italian [in] marble, as you can see, I should add that the usual practice at the time was [with] to get the local artisans to do the actual carving of the marble, note [now] the president is draped
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披在…上;装饰}[drasted] in a Roman toga
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{['kʌstəməri]a.习惯的,惯例的} attire{[ə'taiə]n.服装}[cast matisl tire] for the representations of heads of [for the] state and other important figures, Powers kept [catch] the bust in his studio until after president Jackson’s death, when it was sold to the Democratic Club in [come credit in so to the] New York city, it was lent [land] to us here at the Met [was the map] in eighteen seventy four and twenty years later became part of our permanent{['pə:mənənt]a.永久的,持久的} [prominent] collection, now, if you’ll step this way, we’ll move on to the next piece.
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Listen to a talk given in the museum of natural history, ok, as you look at this [the] next exhibit, you’ll notice something [it] quiet common, an ordinary bar of soap, now, soap have been around [for] a long, in fact, the ancient Phoenicians
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