Lesson 55:From the earth: Greetings 来自地球的问候 Listen to the tape then answer the question below. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Which life forms are most likely to develop on a distant planet? Recent developments in astronomy have

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(405) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第三册

以前说过托福听力中的心理学题材,今天小新和大家来说说天文学这个遥远而神秘的话题。 回顾2015年和2016年,天文学在托福考试听力的lecture中,一直稳稳地保持在第三高频的出现次数。有趣

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Jack: What's that you are reading? Mieko: It's a novel but it's not very good. Jack: I can't read on a train. I can't concentrate. Mieko: I like to read a lot. Jack: So do I, when I am not travelling. Mieko: So what kind of books do you enjoy? Jack:

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Science and Techonology 科技 Astronomy: De Nova Stella 天文学:新星诞生 Astronomers predict a Stella explosion will happen in 5 years time. 天文学家预测5年之内会发生一次星际爆炸 Amateur astronomers have a new date for thei

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Dr Molnar s interest was piqued at a conference in 2013, Molnar博士的兴趣源于2013年的一次会议, when Karen Kinemuchi, another astronomer, presented some puzzling findings on a particular star seen by Kepler, a space telescope designed c

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I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: 我还了解到另一件重要的事, this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! 就是他老家所在的那个星球比一座房子大不了多少。

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 小王子

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When you hear about asteroids close to the Earth, you probably have visions of collisions and extinctions and a post apocalyptic future or of brave space c

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(四)月

[00:01.07]How long have we been observing Mars? [00:04.11]Well, towards the end of the nineteenth century [00:07.11]improved telescopes meant that astronomers [00:09.39]could start to observe the surface [00:11.27]of the planet. [00:12.86]An Italian

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Is There a Ninth Planet in Our Solar System? 科学家称发现太阳系新行星 Scientists said they have found evidence of a giant planet far out in our solar system. In a statement, the California Institute of Technology Caltech -- said this plan

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Astronomers Get Window Seat for Eclipse An astronomer, TV weatherman and eclipse chaser named Joe Rao from New York begged an airline to change its schedule. He wanted his flight to leave 25 minutes late so he and the other passengers could witness t

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Science and Technolgy 科技 Citizen astronomy 全民天文学 A new world in your bedroom 卧室里的新天地 Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters 业余天文学家加入猎星人行列 IN AN age of professionals, the ability

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Of course we have no prospect of such a journey. A trip of 240,000 miles to the Moon still represents a very big undertaking for us. A manned mission to Mars, called for by the first President Bush in a moment of passing giddiness, was quietly droppe

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So when a hopeful and softspoken minister got in touch to ask if they had any usable field charts for hunting supernovae, the astronomical community thought he was out of his mind. At the time Evans had a ten-inch telescopea very respectable size for

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Science and technology. 科技。 Astronomy. 天文学。 Psst. Want a space telescope? 喂,要太空望远镜吗? America's spies make a generous donation to NASA. 美国间谍机构对NASA慷慨捐赠。 AMERICA'S civilian space programme is bu

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Once in a blue moon: 千载难逢 梁咏琪有一首惹人生醉的粤语歌Blue moon(《蓝月亮》)罕有一晚可这么,完全让醉意这么这么,这么这么这么走进心窝 蓝月亮,很富有梦幻的诗歌意象,只是,何时如

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Hovering in the sky, this rainbow cloud over Mount Everest took an astonished astronomer by surprise. 盘踞在珠穆朗玛峰上空中的彩虹云让一名天文学家震惊不已。 Oleg Bartunov, 51, caught the spectacle on camera during a Himalay

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Science and technology 科学技术 Astronomy 天文学 The cosmic boogie-box 宇宙中的摇滚乐 The sky, it seems, is filled with unexpected radio signals 看上去,太空中充满了我们意想不到的无线电讯号 WHISPER it not, but doin

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我们很多托福考生面对强势的托福听力,一开始很可能是猝不及防的,觉得专业性强,语速快,生词又多;于是大部分听力老师会首推精听/听抄来练习,即听一句写一句。But dont get me wrong,笔

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(40) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

天文学在我们听力讲座里面算是出现频率较高的话题了,在目前所有的176篇讲座里一共有14篇天文学类的文章,且都是比较有难度的,可以说,天文学类算是我们讲座里的一个重点也是难点了。

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运用天文学知识强化记忆 北回归线 the Tropic of Cancer 不能说 the Northern Tropic 南回归线 the Tropic of Capricorn 不能说 the Southern Tropic 为什么? 因为 Aries 白羊宫(黄道第一宫 3月21日- 4月19日) Taurus 金牛

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