【万物简史】PART III CH 12大地在移动（17）_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（17）

听力简介：

在岩质行星中，只有地球才有板块。板块是地球机体的重要组成部分。有人认为，地质构造引发气候变化。还有人认为，大陆漂移至少是地球上某些绝种现象的原因。

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Earth is alone among the rocky planets in having tectonics, and why this should be is a bit of a mystery. It is not simply a matter of size or density—Venus is nearly a twin of Earth in these respects and yet has no tectonic activity. It is thought—[-1-]—that tectonics is an important part of the planet’s organic well-being. As the physicist and writer James Trefil has put it, “[---2---]” He suggests that the challenges induced by tectonics—changes in climate, for instance—were an important spur to the development of intelligence. Others believe the driftings of the continents may have produced at least some of the Earth’s various extinction events. In November of 2002, Tony Dickson of Cambridge University in England produced a report, published in the journal Science, strongly suggesting that there may well be a relationship between the history of rocks and the history of life. [---3---]—the huge outburst of tiny organisms that created the chalk cliffs of England’s south coast, the sudden fashion for shells among marine organisms during the Cambrian period, and so on. [---4---]