【万物简史】PART II CH 5敲石头的人们（1）_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 II CH 5敲石头的人们（1）

听力简介：

从今天起，我们要开始听读第五章，了解地理知识了。卡文迪许的实验完成的同时，650公里之外的爱丁堡詹姆斯•赫顿去世了。他留给人们一部奇怪的作品~~~

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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~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据上下文注意各句标号，这样有助于提高正确率。

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Hutton

5 THE STONE-BREAKERS
AT JUST THE time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, 400 miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton. [---1---]

Hutton was [-2-] a man of the keenest insights and liveliest conversation, a delight in company, and without rival when it came to understanding the mysterious slow processes that shaped the Earth. Unfortunately, it was beyond him to [-3-] his notions in a form that anyone could begin to understand. He was, as one biographer observed with an all but [-4-] sigh, “almost entirely innocent of rhetorical [-5-] .” Nearly every line he penned was an invitation to slumber. Here he is in his 1795 masterwork, A Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations , discussing . . . something:

The world which we inhabit [-6-] the materials, not of the earth which was the immediate predecessor of the present, but of the earth which, [-7-] , we consider as the third, and which had [-8-] the land that was above the surface of the sea, [---9---]