【万物简史】PART III CH 12大地在移动（16）_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（16）

听力简介：

现代陆块和古代陆块之间的关系很复杂，有很多相隔甚远地方在很久以前都是一体的。正是有了大陆漂移，才能形成地球上今日陆地和海洋的特征。也正是这个原因让我们只能一瞥地球千分之一的瞬间~~~

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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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the Shackleton Range of Antarctica

Appalachians

U.S

Himalayan

Calcutta

Global Positioning Systems brevity

The connections between modern landmasses and those of the past were found to be infinitely more complex than anyone had imagined. Kazakhstan, it turns out, was once attached to Norway and New England. One corner of Staten Island, but only a corner, is European. So is part of Newfoundland. Pick up a pebble from a Massachusetts beach, and its nearest kin will now be in Africa. The Scottish Highlands and much of Scandinavia are substantially American. [---1---] Rocks, in short, get around.

The constant turmoil keeps the plates from fusing into a single immobile plate. Assuming things continue much as at present, the Atlantic Ocean will expand until eventually it is much bigger than the Pacific. Much of California will float off and become a kind of Madagascar of the Pacific. [---2---] Australia will [-3-] the islands to its north and connect by some isthmian umbilicus to Asia. These are future outcomes, but not future events. The events are happening now. As we sit here, continents are adrift, like leaves on a pond. [---4---] If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. [---5---] Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 percent of the Earth’s history.