老托精选93篇-听力原文.doc
《老托精选93篇-听力原文.doc》由会员分享,可在线阅读,更多相关《老托精选93篇-听力原文.doc(176页珍藏版)》请在咨信网上搜索。
1、老托 Part C 精选 93 篇1Community service is an important component of education here at our university. We encourage all students to volunteer for at least one community activity before they graduate. A new community program called One On One helps elementary students whove fallen behind. You education m
2、ajors might be especially interested in it because it offers the opportunity to do some teachingthat is, tutoring in math and English. Youd have to volunteer two hours a week for one semester. You can choose to help a child with math, English, or both. Half-hour lessons are fine, so you could do a h
3、alf hour of each subject two days a week. Professor Dodge will act as a mentor to the tutorshell be available to help you with lesson plans or to offer suggestions for activities. He has office hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. You can sign up for the program with him and begin the tutorin
4、g next week. Im sure youll enjoy this community service and youll gain valuable experience at the same time. It looks good on your resume, too, showing that youve had experience with children and that you care about your community. If youd like to sign up, or if you have any questions, stop by Profe
5、ssor Dodges office this week.【生词摘录】1. component: n.Cone of several parts that together make up a whole machine or system (机器或系统的)零件;成分;组成部分2. tutor: n. Csomeone who teaches one pupil or a small group, and is directly paid by them 家庭教师,私人教师 v. to teach someone as a tutor 给当家庭教师;指导3. mentor: n. Can ex
6、perienced person who advises and helps a less experienced person 顾问,指导人,教练12I hope youve all finished reading the assigned chapter on insurance so that youre prepared for our discussion today. But, before we start, Id like to mention a few things your text doesnt go into. Its interesting to note tha
7、t insurance has existed in some form for a very long time. The earliest insurance policies were what we called bottomry contracts. They provided shipping protection for merchants as far back as 3000 B.C. In general, the contracts were often no more than verbal agreements. They granted loans to merch
8、ants with the understanding that if a particular shipment of goods was lost at sea, the loan didnt have to be repaid. Interest on the loans varied according to how risky it was to transport the goods. During periods of heavy piracy at sea, for example, the amount of interest and the cost of the poli
9、cy went up considerably. So, you can see how insurance helped encourage international trade. Even the most cautious merchants became willing to risk shipping their goods over long distances, not to mention in hazardous weather conditions when they had this kind of protection available. Generally spe
10、aking, the basic form of an insurance policy has been pretty much the same since the Middle Ages. There are four points that were salient then and remain paramount in all policies today. These were outlined in chapter six and will serve as the basis for the rest of todays discussion. Can anyone tell
11、 me what one of those points might be?【生词摘录】1. insurance: n. Uan arrangement with a company in which you pay them money each year and they pay the costs if anything bad happens to you, such as an illness or an accident 保险;the money that you pay regularly to an insurance company 保险费;the business of p
12、roviding insurance 保险业2. bottomry: n. 船舶抵押契约(如船舶损失,则债务取消),冒险借贷3. contract: n. Ca formal written agreement between two or more people, which says what each person must do for the other 契约;合同4. loan: n. Can amount of money that you borrow from a bank etc (银行等的)贷款5. understanding: n. C usually singular
13、a private, unofficial agreement(私底下、非正式的)协议,协定6. interest: n. Ua charge made for borrowing money(借贷的)利息+on7. piracy: n. the crime of attacking and stealing from ships at sea 海上抢劫,海盗行为8. cautious: adj. careful to avoid danger or risks 小心的,谨慎的,慎重的9. hazardous: adj. 危险的10. salient: adj. formal the sali
14、ent points or features of something are the most important or most noticeable parts of it 【正式】显著的,突出的11. paramount: adj. more important than anything else 至高无上的,最重要的3Located at the NASA Research Center in Iowa is a 5,000-gallon vat of water, and inside the tank is an underwater treadmill designed by
15、 Dava Newman, an aerospace engineer. For four years Newman observed scuba divers as they simulated walking on the Moon and on Mars on her underwater moving belt. She wanted to discover how the gravity of the Moon and of Mars would affect human movement. To do this, Newman attached weights to the div
16、ers and then lowered them into the tank and onto the treadmill. These weights were carefully adjusted so that the divers could experience underwater the gravity of the Moon and of Mars as they walked on the treadmill. Newman concluded that walking on Mars will probably be easier than walking on the
17、Moon. The Moon has less gravity than Mars does, so at lunar gravity, the divers struggled to keep their balance and walked awkwardly. But at Martian gravity, the divers had greater traction and stability and could easily adjust to a pace of 1.5 miles per hour. As Newman gradually increased the speed
18、 of the treadmill, the divers took longer, graceful strides until they comfortably settled into an even quicker pace. Newman also noted that at Martian gravity, the divers needed less oxygen. The data Newman collected will help in the future design of Martian space suits. Compared to lunar space sui
19、ts, Martian space suits will require smaller air tanks; and, to allow for freer movement, the elbow and knee areas of the space suits will also be altered.【生词摘录】1. gallon: n. AmE a unit for measuring liquids, equal to 3.785 litres 【美】加仑(等于 3.785 升)2. vat: n. Ca very large container for storing liqui
20、ds such as whisky or dye, when they are being made(酿酒、盛染料用的)大缸,大桶3. tank: n. Ca large container for storing liquid or gas(盛放液体或气体的)大容器4. treadmill: n. Ca mill worked in the past by prisoners treading on steps fixed to a very large wheel(过去用以惩罚犯人的)踏车5. aerospace: adj. involving the designing and buil
21、ding of aircraft and space vehicles 航空和航天(器制造)的 n.Uthe industry that designs and builds aircraft and space vehicles 航空和航天工业,航天工业6. scuba diving: n. Uthe sport of swimming under water while breathing through a tube connected to a container of air on your back 斯库巴潜泳,水肺潜泳(戴自携式潜水呼吸器潜泳)7. simulate: v. to
22、 make or produce something that is not real but has the appearance of being real 模仿,模拟8. Martian: adj. of or relating to the planet Mars 火星的9. stride: n. Ca long step 大步,阔步10. elbow: n. Cthe joint where your arms bends 肘4Welcome to Everglades National Park. The Everglades is a watery plain covered w
23、ith saw grass thats home to numerous species of plants and wildlife. At one and a half million acres, its too big to see it all today, but this tour will offer you a good sampling. Our tour bus will stop first at Taylor Slough. This is a good place to start because its home to many of the plants and
- 配套讲稿:
如PPT文件的首页显示word图标,表示该PPT已包含配套word讲稿。双击word图标可打开word文档。
- 特殊限制:
部分文档作品中含有的国旗、国徽等图片,仅作为作品整体效果示例展示,禁止商用。设计者仅对作品中独创性部分享有著作权。
- 关 键 词:
- 精选 93 听力 原文
1、咨信平台为文档C2C交易模式,即用户上传的文档直接被用户下载,收益归上传人(含作者)所有;本站仅是提供信息存储空间和展示预览,仅对用户上传内容的表现方式做保护处理,对上载内容不做任何修改或编辑。所展示的作品文档包括内容和图片全部来源于网络用户和作者上传投稿,我们不确定上传用户享有完全著作权,根据《信息网络传播权保护条例》,如果侵犯了您的版权、权益或隐私,请联系我们,核实后会尽快下架及时删除,并可随时和客服了解处理情况,尊重保护知识产权我们共同努力。
2、文档的总页数、文档格式和文档大小以系统显示为准(内容中显示的页数不一定正确),网站客服只以系统显示的页数、文件格式、文档大小作为仲裁依据,平台无法对文档的真实性、完整性、权威性、准确性、专业性及其观点立场做任何保证或承诺,下载前须认真查看,确认无误后再购买,务必慎重购买;若有违法违纪将进行移交司法处理,若涉侵权平台将进行基本处罚并下架。
3、本站所有内容均由用户上传,付费前请自行鉴别,如您付费,意味着您已接受本站规则且自行承担风险,本站不进行额外附加服务,虚拟产品一经售出概不退款(未进行购买下载可退充值款),文档一经付费(服务费)、不意味着购买了该文档的版权,仅供个人/单位学习、研究之用,不得用于商业用途,未经授权,严禁复制、发行、汇编、翻译或者网络传播等,侵权必究。
4、如你看到网页展示的文档有www.zixin.com.cn水印,是因预览和防盗链等技术需要对页面进行转换压缩成图而已,我们并不对上传的文档进行任何编辑或修改,文档下载后都不会有水印标识(原文档上传前个别存留的除外),下载后原文更清晰;试题试卷类文档,如果标题没有明确说明有答案则都视为没有答案,请知晓;PPT和DOC文档可被视为“模板”,允许上传人保留章节、目录结构的情况下删减部份的内容;PDF文档不管是原文档转换或图片扫描而得,本站不作要求视为允许,下载前自行私信或留言给上传者【天****】。
5、本文档所展示的图片、画像、字体、音乐的版权可能需版权方额外授权,请谨慎使用;网站提供的党政主题相关内容(国旗、国徽、党徽--等)目的在于配合国家政策宣传,仅限个人学习分享使用,禁止用于任何广告和商用目的。
6、文档遇到问题,请及时私信或留言给本站上传会员【天****】,需本站解决可联系【 微信客服】、【 QQ客服】,若有其他问题请点击或扫码反馈【 服务填表】;文档侵犯商业秘密、侵犯著作权、侵犯人身权等,请点击“【 版权申诉】”(推荐),意见反馈和侵权处理邮箱:1219186828@qq.com;也可以拔打客服电话:4008-655-100;投诉/维权电话:4009-655-100。