【万物简史】PART II CH 5敲石头的人们（11）_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（11）

听力简介：

巴克兰半夜推醒了妻子，和面让小乌龟在面饼上爬行来证实自己的猜想。莱尔放弃了律师的职业全身心地投入地质学研究，可是他的视力很糟糕，并且，一旦陷入沉思，他往往会慢慢地从椅子上滑下来，臀部几乎贴着地板。Orz（此姿势顺时针转一百八十度）~~~

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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，根据下面的TIPS训练听写。这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~

TIPS听写训练点：单词拼写，时态，单复数，连读，长难句（请边听边用符号先记下内容，然后自己回头组织语句，最后校对，不要逐字逐句听写）

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The Principles of Geology
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Even when conducting serious science his manner was generally [-1-]. Once Mrs. Buckland found herself being shaken awake in the middle of the night, her husband crying in excitement: “My dear, I believe that Cheirotherium's footsteps are undoubtedly testudinal.” [---2---] Mrs. Buckland made a flour paste, which she spread across the table, while the Reverend Buckland fetched the family tortoise. Plunking it onto the paste, they goaded it forward and discovered to their delight that its [-3-] did indeed match those of the fossil Buckland had been studying. Charles Darwin thought Buckland a buffoon—[-4-]—but Lyell appeared to find him inspiring and liked him well enough to go touring with him in Scotland in 1824. [---5---]

Lyell was extremely shortsighted and went through most of his life with a pained squint, which gave him a troubled air. (Eventually he would lose his sight altogether.) His other slight peculiarity was the habit, when [-6-] by thought, of taking up improbable positions on furniture—lying across two chairs at once or "[-7-]" (to quote his friend Darwin). Often when lost in thought he would slink so low in a chair that his buttocks would all but touch the floor. Lyell's only real job in life was as professor of geology at King's College in London from 1831 to 1833. [---8---] (Although Lyell never read Hutton in the original, he was a keen student of Playfair's reworked version.)