听力差的一个重要原因是脑子跟不上、记不住长句子。短了还行,一长就乱,连前边也忘了。怎么办?背长句子!脑子里有几十个长难句,到了考场上什么也不用怕了!魔力英语贯彻其历来“简单粗暴最有效”的原则,从最新的TPO听力中精选了51句长难句供大家背诵。里面的词汇、句型请彻底弄明白意思,然后模仿TPO中教授的语气把它们背过、背熟!开始吧,同学们!突破听力,在此一举!
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Since you are already here, I can give you a quick summary of how whales hold their breath underwater. |
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It is not even clear that assisted migration or any migrationfor that matter will help at least for some species. |
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In one case, a group of conservationists has alreadytaken it upon itself to try on their own to save an endangered tree, the Florida Torreya tree, through assisted migration. |
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The group believed its effort is justified, but I and many other biologists will be watching very closely how this maverick group makes it out, because like I said there could be unintended consequences. |
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And initially I was surprised none of you chose to write about Bela Bartok that is until I rememberedwe haven’t had a chance to discuss him in class yet. |
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He attended weddings, dances and religious ceremonies, where he heard a very different sort of music from the romantic stuff being played in the concert halls in the cities. |
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But it turns out that what would hater have a notable influence on European music on the whole, was the way Bartok used elements he heard in folk songs in his own compositions. |
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The rosetta stone was remarkable because as I said, on it, was the same text in three different alphabets. |
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As we have said before, the main point of the renaissance was to revive the genius of the ancient Greeks and Romans, which is why designers of renaissance gardens designed them as the ancient Romans would have designed them, or at least as they imagined the ancient Romans would have designed them. |
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And then before we decide to include a book in the sale, we review its circulation history again, which can take a while. We’ve got a lot of books in storage. |
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Well, actually, while I was reading it the second time, I sort of realized that you don’t need surprises or excitement to have a great story. |
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It made me think that when I write my story, the one we have to write for this class, I can maybe use my own memories to get me started. |
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But what I really wanted the class to take away from it was that you don’t need to write about the great exciting world when you write your stories. |
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You know, as the due day of your stories approaches, I am hearing from a lot of students that they are worried because they don’t have anything exciting enough to write about. |
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As you will recall, Dada began in Switzerland, in the city of Zurich, in 1916. The artists who studied it were reacting against traditional notions of beauty, of reason, of progress, which had been standards of western thought since the 18th century. |
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And so we have that collage we looked at, with an artist took different, you know,cut-out squares of colored paper, threw them onto the canvas, and wherever they landed, that was the composition of the work! |
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The performers at the Cabaret Voltaire would also get the audience involved, which was extremely unusual. |
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At the end of yesterday’s class, we were discussing landfills and the hundreds of millions of tons of everyday garbage, which are deposited into them each year in the United States. |
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We have government recycling programs for materials like plastics, glass and metal, yet widespread solutions for organic waste materials haven’t really been addressedin the United States. |
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The gases are captured and can be burned to produce electricity, which saves a lot of money and ultimately decreases our need for fuels like petroleum and coal, which are not only expensive but are also polluting. |
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But the APS containers are small enough to be set up on site, where the waste is generated, like at food processing plants or on farms. |
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Not only did the university same money, we are also learning even more about the APS process. |
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There are several important factors associated with pollination when and how often a plan flowers, how long the flowering cycle lasts, and the number of flowers that open at the same time. |
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It can fragment habitats in a variety of ways, reducing the number of pollinators, which in turn may reduce the number or size of the flowers, which of course affects the animals that feed on them. |
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But eventually, moving over to the right side there, interest begins to fade and the growth and sales levels off. |
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And as a market analyst, you could say that with Kind of Blue, he was jumping to the beginning of a brand new S-curve, with all that potential for profitable development still ahead of him. |
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Well, campus businesses like the cafeteria or bookstore don’t quite follow the kinds of service models we’re studying in class. |
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So your next step in this process needs to do is to go look at the work you’ve selected as your topic and bring a pencil and a notepad with you. |
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Because I don’t mean you should just drop by at the museum and glance at it, so you can say you’ve seen it in real life, you need to go and sit in front of the work and really look at it carefully and slowly, and keep careful notes about what you see. |
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The area was named Cape Cod because there was so many Cod fish in the waters just off its shores, so many that the first Europeans who fished there in the 17th century reported it was better than in New Finland, Canada. |
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And sure enough, biologists noticed that around Cape Cod, the cod were beginning to mature at an age earlier than normal. |
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It doesn’t involve taking pictures, but it does involve working with pictures, filling requests for specific photos from students and professors. |
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Because without carbon and other greenhouse gases, our planet would be the same temperature as outer space, around four degrees above absolute zero. |
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You have shellfish that use the CO2 dissolved in the water to make carbonate shells and when they die, they fall to the ocean floor and the carbon gets sequestered down there. |
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But lately, local and state governments have started to consider and sometimes actually enter into various deals to privatize parts of their infrastructure, particularly in the transportation sector. |
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Last time we finished going over some of the fundamental concepts of nanotechnology, the multi-disciplinary science of manipulating or controlling extremely small units of matters on the scale of molecule or even atoms. |
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A team of material scientists in Massachusetts have been working on a new ultrathin coating, a nana coating that might be applied to objects like bathroom mirrors, car windows and eye glasses to prevent fogging. |
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What happens is they cause the tiny water droplets to flatten when they condense on the surface of shower door or bathroom mirror or whatever the object it is. |
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Hippolytus been sent off by his father, then a little later a messenger arrives and describes how Hippolytus was ridding in his chariot when a giant bull appeared at the ocean and caused the chariot to crush. |
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Some theatres have fifty or more rows of seats accommodating up to fourteen thousand spectators, ascending way of the hillside, and this was long before theatre binoculars were invented. |
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So, it had been assumed for a long time that New Guinea, that domesticated plants and animals, the practice of agriculture generally, had been introduced from Southeast Asia about 3500 years ago, had come south essentially. |
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It was unclear whether the forest had been cleared by farmers to plant fields, or by hunter gatherers so they could hunt more easily, and many plant remains like seeds and fruits don’t preserve well in swampy soils. |
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From developing wind farms to tapping into an underground source of geothermal energy, and when you’re considering a new project, it’s important to look at the cost, as well as benefits of developing that energy source. |
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Critics back then were unimpressed by it, though it’s likely that their own feelings about how play should be, neoclassical or romantic, affected their opinions about it. |
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He was part of a growing movement of er…, young authors and artists, who were rebelling against neoclassicism, against the conventions of neoclassicism. |
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Now usually when we talk about birds flying long distances, we are discussing seasonal migration, but there are some species that fly long distances not as part of a migration, but as part of their regular foraging for food. |
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But it still works out because albatross fly using a technique called dynamic soaring,which enables them to cover very long distances while expending very little energy. |
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But the problem is that we’ve also found magnetite in non-migratory birds, which suggests that it may in fact serve a completely different function, not related to navigation at all. |
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Ok, in my career, I’ve learned, well, as part of building and maintaining strong relationships in working on administrative skills, you’ve got to consider the other needs of your team, beyond the sport itself |
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But if coaches spend too much of your time on game strategy, well, you see, maybe that’s secondary, too, to the knowledge and skills you’ll need for the other roles you undertake as a coach, especially, as that survey emphasized, skills in dealing with people and administration. |
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One result of these interactions is that equatorial air masses move away from the equator, and in the process, those equatorial winds actually take heat away from the equator and transfer it to some cooler part of earth. |