【万物简史】PART II CH 6势不两立的科学（2）_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 6势不两立的科学（2）

听力简介：

法国自然学家布冯又来了，这次介绍的是他给美国人热衷于大生物的遗骸的原因带来了解释：新世界的生物低劣于旧世界的生物。他的观察结果得到了很多对事实一知半解的学者的热烈支持~~~

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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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the New World
the Old World
durability

That the bone didn't attract greater interest is [-1-], for its appearance came at a time when America was in a froth of excitement about the remains of large, ancient animals. The cause of this froth was a strange assertion by the great French naturalist the Comte de Buffon—he of the heated spheres from the previous chapter—[---2---]. America, Buffon wrote in his vast and much-[-3-] Histoire Naturelle, was a land where the water was stagnant, the soil [-4-] , and the animals without size or vigor, their constitutions weakened by the “noxious vapors” that rose from its rotting swamps and [-5-] forests. In such an environment even the native Indians lacked virility. “They have no beard or body hair,” Buffon sagely confided, “and no ardor for the female.” Their [-6-] organs were “small and feeble.”

Buffon's observations found surprisingly eager support among other writers, especially those whose conclusions were not complicated by actual [-7-] with the country. A Dutchman named Comeille de Pauw announced in a popular work called Recherches Philosophiques sur les Américains that native American males were not only reproductively unimposing, but “so [-8-] in virility that they had milk in their breasts.” [---9---]