【万物简史】PART I CH 2_3_英语听力练习mp3下载-科学-沪江听力酷

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【万物简史】PART I CH 2_3

听力简介：

这是一部有关现代科学发展史的既通俗易懂又引人入胜的书，作者用清晰明了、幽默风趣的笔法，将宇宙大爆炸到人类文明发展进程中所发生的繁多妙趣横生的故事一一收入笔下。惊奇和感叹组成了本书，历历在目的天下万物组成了本书，益于人们了解大千世界的无穷奥妙，掌握万事万物的发展脉络。
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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
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[---1---] That seminal event in astronomy was largely to the [-2-] of the astronomer Percival Lowell. Lowell, who came from one of the oldest and wealthiest Boston families (the one in the famous ditty about Boston being the home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells spoke only to Cabots, while Cabots spoke only to God), endowed the famous observatory that bears his name, but is most indelibly remembered for his belief that Mars was covered with canals built by [-3-] Martians for purposes of conveying water from polar regions to the dry but productive lands nearer the [-4-].

Lowell's other abiding conviction was that there existed, somewhere out beyond Neptune, an undiscovered ninth planet, dubbed Planet X. Lowell based this belief on irregularities he detected in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, [---5---] Unfortunately, he died suddenly in 1916, at least partly [-6-] by his quest, and the search fell into abeyance while Lowell's heirs squabbled over his estate. However, in 1929, partly as a way of deflecting attention away from the Mars canal saga ([---7---]), the Lowell Observatory directors decided to resume the search and to that end hired a young man from Kansas named Clyde Tombaugh.