【万物简史】PART II CH 5敲石头的人们（22）_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（22）

听力简介：

威廉汤姆森——后来的开尔文勋爵， 19世纪的--也是任何世纪的--最杰出的人物之一，有着过人的洞察力。10岁被格拉斯哥大学录取，才华横溢；22岁回到格拉斯哥，担任自然哲学教授。他也对达尔文关于地球年龄的测算问题产生了兴趣。

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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，也不用写序号。答完一空换行继续下一空作答。文中需听写单词或词组用[-No-]表示，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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Unfortunately for Darwin, and for progress, the question came to the attention of the great Lord Kelvin (who, though indubitably great, was then still just plain William Thomson; he wouldn't be elevated to the peerage until 1892, when he was 68 years old and nearing the end of his career, but I shall follow the [-1-] here of using the name retroactively). Kelvin was one of the most extraordinary [-2-] of the 19th century—[-3-]. The German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz, no intellectual slouch himself, wrote that Kelvin had by far the greatest “[-4-]” of any man he had ever met. “I felt quite [-5-] beside him sometimes,” he added, a bit [-6-].

The [-7-] is understandable, for Kelvin really was a kind of Victorian superman. [---8---] There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly [-9-] age of ten. By the time he had reached his early twenties, he had studied at institutions in London and Paris, graduated from Cambridge (where he won the university's top prizes for rowing and mathematics, and somehow found time to launch a musical society as well), been elected a fellow of Peterhouse, and written (in French and English) a dozen papers [-10-] and applied mathematics of such dazzling originality that he had to publish them anonymously [-11-] . [---12---]