【万物简史】PART II CH 6势不两立的科学（29）_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（29）

听力简介：

关于地球年龄的有好多说法。情况如此混乱，到19世纪末，你可以获知地球的年龄有好多个——取决于你查的是哪种资料。俗话说乱世出英雄，做科学研究似乎也一样，就着这各抒己见的局面年代一个农家孩子又以特别的方法证明了另一个独特的数据，具体如何，要明天读下一章了~~~

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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）

Hints:
Kelvin's
George Becker
intractably
novel

Other scientists besides Kelvin turned [-1-] and came up with results that only deepened the uncertainty. Samuel Haughton, a [-2-] geologist at Trinity College in Dublin, announced an estimated age for the Earth of 2,300 million years—[-3-] . When this was drawn to his attention, he recalculated using the same data and put the figure at 153 million years. John Joly, also of Trinity, decided to give Edmond Halley's ocean salts idea a whirl, but his method was based on so many faulty [-4-] that he was hopelessly adrift. [---5---]

Such was the confusion that by the close of the 19th century, depending on which text you consulted, you could learn that the number of years that stood between us and the dawn of complex life in the Cambrian period was 3 million, 18 million, 600 million, 794 million, or 2.4 billion—or some other number within that range. [---6---]

[---7---] He was a bluff and brilliant New Zealand farm boy named Ernest Rutherford, and he produced pretty well irrefutable evidence that the Earth was at least many hundreds of millions of years old, probably rather more.

Remarkably, his evidence was based on alchemy—natural, spontaneous, scientifically credible, and wholly non-occult, but alchemy nonetheless. Newton, it turned out, had not been so wrong after all. And exactly how that came to be is of course another story.