2010-07-06 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) Welcome to the largest retrospective exhibit this art museum has ever devoted to an architect. The architect chosen for this honor is Frank Lloyd Wright --- probably the greatest United States ar

2010-07-06 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) As many of you already know, March is Women's History Month, so it's just a few weeks until the university begins its annual observance. The Women's Studies Program, in conjunction with the Co

2010-07-05 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) There's an art exhibition here on campus which ties in well with the discussions we're had about folk art. It's an exhibition of wildlife art calendars from about a hundred years ago.

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2010-07-05 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA-KC) Moving away from newspapers, let's now focus on magazines. Now, the first magazine was a little periodical called The Review, and it was started in London in 1704. It looked a lot like the ne

2010-07-05 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) Before moving on to a new topic, I want to finish up our unit on arachnids by looking at what may seem a very unusual aspect of spider behavior --- a species where the young spiders actually cons

2010-07-05 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) One of the most popular myths about the United States in the nineteenth century was that of the free and simple life of the farmer. It was said that farmers worked hard on their own land to produ

2010-07-05 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) Today I want to talk to you about wasps and their nests. You'll recall that biologists divide species of wasps into two groups: solitary and social.

Solitary wasps, as the name implies, do n

2010-07-05 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) I was really glad when your club invited me to share my coin collection. It's been my passion since I collected my first Lincoln cent in 1971; that's the current penny with Abraham Lincoln's i

2010-07-04 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) OK. In the last class we talked about the classification of trees, and we ended up with a basic description of angiosperms. You remember that those are plants with true flowers and seeds that dev

2010-07-04 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) As you probably know, log structures are gaining in popularity. They are no longer just the simple country homes that we think of as the traditional log cabin. Some upscale homes now incorporate

2010-07-04 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) The Old Canada Road is a long-lost trail between the Canadian province of Quebec and Maine, in the northeast corner of the United States. Yes, it really was lost, and finding it again was a compl

2010-07-03 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) Now let's focus on comics in the 1950's. Early in the decade sales were down, so publishers started looking for some new angle to get their readers interested again. They found what they were l

2010-07-03 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) One reason oceanographers analyze the sediment on the ocean floor is to see how long-terms changes in Earth's temperature have affected the depth of the ocean. By analyzing the remains of sea an

2010-07-03 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA-WW) Yesterday we talked about the anecdote. Today we're going to move on to one of the most popular literary forms in Western literature --- the short story.

A short story is a piece of prose

2010-07-03 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA-LC) Well, if there are no more questions I would like to continue our discussion of human evolution by looking at Homo erectus, the earliest of our ancestors who stood upright. Homo erectus lived

2010-07-03 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) That's an interesting question, Tom. Women did participate in the early days of motion-picture making. One of the most outstanding is Lois Weber. She is credited as the first consistently succes

2010-07-03 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) Now, you've been reading articles about the tremendous damage done to life and property by earthquakes. That's why seismologists have been working so hard to develop methods of earthquake predi

2010-07-02 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA) Human populations near the equator have evolved dark skin over many generations because of exposure to the fierce rays of the Sun. A similar phenomenon has also occurred in other parts of the ani

2010-07-02 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(WA-MM) Not long ago, some of you may have read about a team of mountain-climbing scientists who helped to recalculate the elevation of the highest mountain in the world: Mt. Everest. Of course, the e

2010-07-02 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(Woman) You might think that most of the patients at sleep clinic are being treated for sleeplessness, commonly referred to as insomnia, but that is not the case. The majority of sleep-clinic patients

2010-07-02 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(woman) We've been together now in this pottery class for several weeks, and I feel you are all doing very well. I thought you might be interested in hearing about a ceramics workshop that will be he

2010-07-02 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(man) Today I want to discuss fossil fuels such as coat, oil, and natural gas. The term "fossil fuel" refers to the trapped remains of plants and animals in sedimentary rock. You see, living plants tr

2010-07-02 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(MA) We're going to start today talking about congressional aides, that is, the people who work for our congressional representatives both in Washington and in the representatives' local districts.

2010-07-01 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(woman) This room is devoted to electric fish. The eel in the tank behind me can produce a strong jolt of electricity to stun its prey, but most of the fish in here produce only weak electrical impuls

2010-07-01 所属栏目:托福听力短文

(Woman) So, why did what is now called "modern dance" begin in the United States? To begin to answer this question, I'll need to backtrack a little bit and talk about classical ballet.

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