【万物简史】PART II CH 6势不两立的科学（5）_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（5）

听力简介：

在那场争论的启发之下，居维叶于1796年在著作中表明了地球上格式化般的进化；杰斐逊不同意，组建了科考队，还请了个顾问——不是别人，正是那个错过第一个成为恐龙化石发现者的卡斯帕•威斯塔~~

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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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Great Chain of Being
deceased
Caspar Wistar

Inspired by the controversy, in 1796 Cuvier wrote a landmark paper, Note on the Species of Living and Fossil Elephants, in which he put forward for the first time a formal theory of extinctions. His belief was that from time to time the Earth experienced global catastrophes in which groups of creatures [-1-]. For religious people, including Cuvier himself, the idea raised uncomfortable [-2-] since it suggested an unaccountable casualness on the part of Providence. To what end would God create species only to wipe them out later? [---3---] Jefferson for one couldn't [-4-] the thought that whole species would ever be permitted to vanish (or, come to that, to evolve). So [-5-] that there might be scientific and political value in sending a party to explore the interior of America beyond the Mississippi he leapt at the idea, hoping the intrepid adventurers would find herds of healthy mastodons and other [-6-] creatures grazing on the bounteous plains. Jefferson's personal secretary and trusted friend Meriwether Lewis was chosen co-leader and chief naturalist for the expedition. [---7---]