【万物简史】PART II CH 6势不两立的科学（6）_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（6）

听力简介：

不大知名的英国人威廉•史密斯发表对化石价值的见解。他是萨默塞特的科尔运河建筑工地上的年轻监督员。绘制英国的岩层图，成为近代地质学的奠基石~~~

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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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carboniferous
Devon
Cambrian
Wales

In the same year—in fact, the same month—that the aristocratic and [-1-] Cuvier was propounding his extinction theories in Paris, on the other side of the English Channel a rather more obscure Englishman was [-2-] the value of fossils that would also have lasting ramifications. William Smith was a young supervisor of construction on the Somerset Coal Canal. On the evening of January 5, 1796, he was sitting in a coaching inn in Somerset when he jotted down the notion that would eventually make his reputation. [---3---] Smith's insight was to realize that the answer lay with fossils. At every change in rock strata certain species of fossils disappeared while others carried on into [-4-] levels. By noting which species appeared in which strata, you could work out the relative ages of rocks wherever they appeared. [-5-], Smith began at once to make a map of Britain's rock strata, which would be published after many trials in 1815 and would become a [-6-] of modern geology. (The story is [-7-] covered in Simon Winchester's popular book The Map That Changed the World.)