【万物简史】PART III CH 12大地在移动（4）_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 III CH 12大地在移动（4）

听力简介：

种种研究成果表明地球表面不是一成不变的，也不是在冷却紧缩。提出一种新的理论的时机显然已经成熟。不幸的是，地质学家们不希望把这个任务交给阿尔弗雷德•魏格纳来完成。首先，他的观点很激进，对他们学科的基础提出了质疑，不大可能在听众中产生多大热情。他是个气象学家，没有地质学背景——“天哪，气象员播报大陆漂移啦？！”很难让人接受~~~

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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，这样可以提高听力准确度，并为训练听译打下基础哦~~~

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spheroid
divots
Suess
Wegener

Never mind that James Hutton had shown long before that any such static arrangement would eventually result in a [---1---] There was also the problem, demonstrated by Rutherford and Soddy early in the century, that Earthly elements hold huge reserves of heat—[---2---] And anyway, if Suess's theory was correct then mountains should be [-3-] distributed across the face of the Earth, which [-4-] they were not, and of more or less the same ages; [---5---] like the Urals and Appalachians, [---6---] like the Alps and Rockies. Clearly the time was ripe for a new theory. Unfortunately, Alfred Wegener was not the man that geologists wished to provide it.

For a start, his radical notions questioned the foundations of their discipline, seldom an effective way to generate warmth in an audience. [---7---] He was a meteorologist, [-8-] A weatherman—a German weatherman. These were not remediable deficiencies.