托福听力短文 II-05-1
时间：2018-12-30 作者：英语课 分类：托福听力短文
英语课
(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 image. Just a little history before I start in on my own collection. Lincoln pennies are made of copper 1, and they were the first United States coin to bear the likeness 2 of a President. It was back in 1909 [nineteen-oh-nine] when the country was celebrating the centennial of Lincoln's birth in 1809 [eighteen-oh-nine] that the decision was made to redesign the one-cent piece in his honor. Before that, the penny had an American Indian head on it. The new penny was designed by artist Victor David Brenner. This is interesting because he put his initials 3 V.D.B. on the reverse 4 of the coin in its original design. There was a general uproar 5 when the initials were discovered, and only a limited number of the coins were struck with the initials on them. Today a penny with the initials from the San Francisco Mint 6... called the 1909-SVDB... is worth over $500. Now... when I started my coin collection, I began with the penny for several reasons... there were a lot of them (several hundred billion have been minted)... and there were a lot of people collecting them... so I had plenty of people to trade with and talk to about my collection. Also... it was a coin I could afford to collect as a young teenager. In the twenty-five years since then, I have managed to acquire over 300 coins, some of them very rare. I'll be sharing with you today some of my rarer specimens 7... including the 1909-SVDB.
n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的
- The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
- Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
n.相像，相似（之处）
- I think the painter has produced a very true likeness.我认为这位画家画得非常逼真。
- She treasured the painted likeness of her son.她珍藏她儿子的画像。
n.首字母，姓名
- a glass tankard with his initials etched on it 刻有他姓名首字母的玻璃大酒杯
- All the towels were personalized with their initials. 所有毛巾上都标有物主姓名的首字母。
v.推翻，颠倒，反向；n.反面，逆境；adj.反向的
- His answer was just the reverse of what I expected.他的回答正好与我期望的相反。
- Please reverse the positions of two pictures.请把两张图片的位置倒转过来。
n.骚动，喧嚣，鼎沸
- She could hear the uproar in the room.她能听见房间里的吵闹声。
- His remarks threw the audience into an uproar.他的讲话使听众沸腾起来。