【我也来听写】Zarina听力要突破~（第一阶段已完，进入第二阶段）

zarina1990UID：2968274

本人由于已保研（未来要出国），在未来的一年里，专门要攻克听力问题，想要在听力上有重大提高。
       之前的听力很差！！！
      
       听写材料第一阶段选用老托PARTC精选93，每天听写3篇。暂时试行，求监督！

       想参与的同学直接在这个帖后面回帖你的听写，格式随意。内容最好和我听写的内容同步，大家还相互有个参考~

       从9月30日起，老托partC 59篇开始！
      
       加油！
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      Part C 93篇已经全部听写完。59篇之前的准备托福的时候听写过的。9月30-10月27日将后面的30余篇做了了结。
      接下来采用 SSS （Scientific American's 60 seconds science)材料。
      每天听写2篇及以上！
      同时要泛听BBC,VOA等材料。

      加油！

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080207


Hitting your mid forties,(?) chances are you(+are)feeling down. But don’t hang you head, you are just at the bottom of the life(‘s) U shape(d) hap (path) of happiness. You might not see it if from herebut things are looking up. A study in the Journal of(去掉) Social Science Medicine saysmid-life melan（malaise）is part of being human. Ofrey(Offering) proved(proof) that misery loves company researchers foundthat millions of people from 74 different countries followed similar life path.They moved from youthful happiness towards mid-life depressions then back tohappiness in their golden years. Earlier studies suggested psychological well-beingwas consistent devout(throughout) life. But thisreport says from //( Azerbaijan) to Sibabowi(Zimbabwe,), there is no getting around that mid-lifecrisis, regardless of culture differences, financial success or merical(marital)status, a peer(period) of depression settlesover our forties. And(But) by our late fifties,we cheer back up. Researchers speculate that as we get older, unrealisticexpectations are tempered by reality. In other words, we learn to expect lessfrom life. But they say a happier possibilities (+is)that we just get better and (at) counting our blessings.
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malaise不舒服

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marital婚姻的
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temper调和；使缓和

zarina1990UID：2968274

When you have an itch, nothing feels betterthan a good scratch. Now scientists from W University (Wake Forest UniversityBaptist) medical center think they know why. The scientists werewondering why weaking figures node(raking fingernails) across skin brings(+us) such a(去掉) pleasure. So they look(ed) to thebrain, more precisely they looked into(in) thebrain. Using advanced emyging(imaging) techniques,the scientists look(ed) to see which parts ofthe brain are most active when people scratch or in this case, when people(+are) scratch (ed) bya guy(+in) a white lamb(lab)coat with a special scratching brash(brush). Whatthey find (found) is scratching is(does) not the activist areas of the brain normallyassociated with the pleasure. Although it did boost the activity of the preferto context(prefrontal cortex)whichcan be involved in comprehensive(compulsive) behavior.That makes sense. But the major effect of scratching was to decrease theactivity of brain region(s) associated with unpleasantsensory experiences. So scratching seems to relieve the unpleasant feeling(s) that accompany, well, itching. Yes, (+in) a landmark study that appears in the Journal of investigativedermatology scratching gets rid of the itch. Me, I am holding there (out) for the study that chose (shows) that people bent (bang) theirheads against the wall because it feels so good when you stop.
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prefrontalcortex 额前骨皮质

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compulsive 强迫的
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dermatology 皮肤病学

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080205


When this(is an) ant is(去掉) like a piece of fruit? When itaffected (is infected) by a parasite? Researchersaffiliated with a monsoonal（the Smithsonian）tropical research institute discovered this bizarre occurrence in centralAmerica as they were studying the gliding ability of（+a） certain species of ant. They found somecolony members with bright red through abdiments(swollen abdomens). Thescientists took specimens back to the lab and discovered they were full ofhundreds of manifold（nematode）eggs. The bright red ballet (bellies) look suspiciouslylike (+the) brilliant red and pink berries that //(proliferate) in the rainforest. Researchersthink that the nimitold（nematode）makes the ant looks like fruit to get birds（+to） eat the ants. Birds usually keep the antsof (off) their menu because of armer(armor) and（+a） bad chemical taste. The birds then spread parasiteeggs in their droppings, // (Ants forage through bird) droppingsfor seeds. They feed the affected (infected)droppings at lava (to ant larvae) beginningthe infection process all over again. The red ballet(red-bellied)ant is the first known case of parasite causing fruit mimicry. One of theresearchers were surprised to that something, dam(dumb)as //(a nematode), can perpulate(manipulate) its host in such a sophisticated way, butevolution works no matter how dam(damb) organisms are.
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Affiliated 附属的
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Swollen 肿胀的
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Abdomen 腹部
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Nematode 线虫
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Belly 腹部
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Proliferate 增殖
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Armor 装甲
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Larvae 幼虫
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Dumb 哑的
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Manipulate 操纵



又错了好多，哎，求大牛指点。

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080204

//(Vinaigrette) dressing: when you shake it,little //(vinegar) droplets scatter through the oil. But when you put it down,thedroplets merge and the dressing separates. That’s probably not a big inconvenienceto you, but it is in (to) industries that use lotsof vinegar like (vinaigrette-like)mixtures. So the (to) study designs(this) mixing (unmixing),French researchers planned to float water droplets when it is the(one at a) time to channel a flown(of flowing) oil. The channel is wide (widened) in the middle so the oil would slow downin //(and bump) the droplets together. Thenthe passage narrow(ed) again and so the oil wasspeeded(would speed) up and pour(pull) the droplets apart. The researchers expectedthat the droplets would merge when they bumped together. But that is not whathappened. In fact, it was when the droplets start(ed) topour(pull) apart from each other that theysuddenly mixed. In physical review letters, the researchers say that thepouring (pulling) apart may make the pressure betweenthe droplets fall. That would make the droplets burst open and then they couldmerge into one big water droplet. What the researchers don’t say is whetherthis finding could lead to a true breakthrough: stay-mixed salad dressing.
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Vinaigrette一种油，醋，盐，香料等合成的浓烈调味品；
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Dressing 调味品

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Vinegar 醋
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Bump 碰撞

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Air pollution is bad for ourhealth. But scientists say we don’t know much about the long term effects. Soresearchers in Canada and another land (the Netherlands)decided to gather genetic information in (+an) urbanand(去掉) industrial environment by lookingat mice burn(mouse sperm). They publish(ed) thestudy in the proceedings of national economy (Academyof) sciences. The scientists place(d)cages of mature male mice near two still males(steel mills) in(and) a major highway in the city of Himotorn in Motanral(Hamilton, in Ontario) Canada. Some of themice breathed in the particular feed （in ambient, particulate-filled ）air.The control mice breathed peer /（pure, filtered） air. Afterten weeks, researchers checked the two groups. The mice exposed to the pollutedair had a 60 percent higher rate of sperm mutation. It occurred in a piece ofDNA particular(ly) susceptible to mutation.Researchers say these specific mutations are known to affect gene expression andgeno stability and could lead to changes in genetic compensation and disease.They say they can’t yet extraply（extrapolate）from thesefindings to (the) long term /(health) effects to（in） humans. But they say the results definitelywarn(warrant) a more detailed look at pollution’s effects on our genes.

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sperm 精子
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steel mill 炼钢厂、钢铁厂
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ambient周围的
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particulate-filled填满微粒的
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filtered过滤了的
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susceptible 容易受到影响的
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genome 基因组、染色体组】
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composition 构成
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extrapolate 推断
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warrant 保证、担保

zarina1990UID：2968274

好久没有来过了。LZ因为生病，不得已。加油，从今天起再来~~

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080131
The search for alternative fuel to gasoline is less (led to) dispraising (surprising)possibilities, for instance, the wasting (waste)oil for making French fries. But one of the most unusual alternativefuel candidates might be chicken fat. Yes, chicken fat is(去掉) also calledshmoz(schmaltz). So if you make chicken soup,you might have a valuable resource in your kitchen besides the actual soup.Chemical engineers at the University of Arkens(Arkansas)report, that when chicken fat is combined with mesolon(methanol)under very high temperatures and pressure, known as supercriticalconditions, they got biodiso. The method converted 89 percent of the chickenfat to biodiso（bio-diesel）. The research was done as part of a master’s thesis project by chemicalengineering student Bredge Sooty(Brent Schulte).Many people have high hopes for biodiso（bio-diesel） as a replacement for fossilfuels, because it uses renewable resources such as plant oils or in this casechicken fat, which they are(there’s)certainly known(no) shortage. The hunt forbiodiso（bio-diesel）may mostly take place outdoors, but the potential of the French fry //(flotsam) and chicken fat also means the search cansometimes end in the kitchen.


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supercritical 超临界的

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bio-diesel 生物柴油

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flotsam 废料

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methanol 甲醇

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080130
Everyexpecting mother gets to ask (asked) thequestion, boy or girl? For mammals like us, it is an easy call. Two Xchromosome(s) you get paint buddies (pink booties). X and Y, you get blue. But for somereptiles, the answer depends on the weather. Well, on the temperature to be precise,for many lizards, turtles and gators, the sex of the hatchling(s) depends on the temperature in the nest where the eggsincubate. But why we(would) animals bother withsuch a seemingly slapdash system for a signing（assigning）sex? But (And the)only logical answers (answer is), there must besome benefit. Each sex must fear (fare) betterat the temperature that tends to produce that sex. A fine theory, but no onewas (has been) able to test it until now. In theJanuary 20 online issue of nature, scientists of (at)Ohio (lowa) State University describe how theyused hormone(s) to produce lizard(s) with the wrong sex. Animals that came out maleeven though they were incubated that (at) the femaletemperature, and vice versa. They found that females born and raised at the femaletemperature, made more babies, that (than)female(s) hatched (+at)the wrong male temperature. Did all(Ditto) for the males. Call it the golden locked(Goldilocks) principle. You bore(are born) at the(a) temperaturethat is just right, at least of your(if you area) lizard.

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booties 战利品
2. Gators 短吻鳄
3. Slapdash 粗心的、马虎的

4. assigning 分派、指定 5. Goldilocks金发的；6.Ditto
同上；同上符号；

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080129
Pay attention retailers.For a fatter bottom line, you might wanna have some hangks and harties (hunks and hotties) on hand. That is what Jennifer Argoand her colleagues say. She teaches business at the University of Wallyborta(Alberta). The research team that(did a) study to be published in the upcoming issue ofthe Journal of consumer research. The result,(:)customers were more enthusiastic about clothing when they saw(+a) good looking people handling the clothes. The teamstudy(studied) responses of 3 hundred shopperswho are(were) sent to a store to try on a specificshirt. When the shopper(s) saw a plantedaverage looking person try(ing) on the shirtthey came for, they won’t(weren’t) thatinterested(+in) buying it. But when the fashion(a fetching) model of the opposite sex was seen tosport(spot) the shirt, the shopper said theywere then actually willing to spend more for it. Regular, Joes and Jeans don’ttake that is (as) meaning you have no future onthe sales floor. Argo says that retailers can still get more appearanceconnected sales milage (mileage) from the(their) average looking stuff just by making surely (sure) employees stay well-groomed, to give a nattyappearance.
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Hunks and hotties俊男美女
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Planted ?
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Fetching 迷人的、动人的
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Mileage 英里数

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080128
Our ears are highly attuned to sounds in theworld around us. It’s not just the frequency of the sound itself. There are alsosubtle differences and shifts in loudness and pitch. That’s what tells us, forinstance, whether that baby cry belongs to us and just where it is located. Butaccording to a recent study, what you and I hear may not sound the same.Scientists at the University of Oxford are trying to understand how the earsand the brain work together. They feed fears (fit ferrets) with the auditory in plants(implants); train them to respond to sound, and thenlook at the way their nurise(neurons) reacted. Itturns out that each nurants (ferret’s neurons) inthe auditory quartets(cortex) responded tochanges in gradual differences in sound. But each fails to (ferret) respond(ed)differently. The researchers say this is applicable to humans. They say this meansthat our brains are wire(d) to process soundsdepending on how our ears delivery(deliver) thatsound. So if you suddenly heard the word through my ears, it might sound quitedifferent. The scientists say this research could help in (+a) quest the (to) designbetter hearing aids and speech recognition systems.






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Attune 调和
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Fit 装配
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Ferret 雪貂
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Neurons 神经原，神经细胞
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Cortex
皮质、树皮
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Be Wired to接有电线的；有线连接
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Quest 追求、寻找

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080125
Remember the good old days when we understood oursolar system? Then we found our (out) Pluto wasn’ta planet. And now a new study puts comets in question. The data coming(come) from NASAs(NASA’s) startus to mention(StardustMission). That’s the one that scooped up particles from comet wild two andreturned to earth two years ago. The conventional wisdom is that cometsoriginated in the outer solar system than (,then)the sun or a planet nudged them into wild(weird)orbits. Or (Well) the study in the journalScience contradicts that wisdom. It turns out that the particles from wild twolook like they belong not to a comet but to an asteroid from the inner solarsystem. In fact, studies(Stardust) didn’tcapture any of the pre-solar system stuff that comet should be made of. This meansthat the distinction between asteroids and comets may be surprisingly blurry.Some comets might have migrated out from the inner solar system, or there couldbe lots of inner solar system stuff in the outer solar system. Either way, it’stime to start rewriting those astronomy text books, again.
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stardust 星尘
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scoop up 发掘、搜集
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nudge 轻推
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weird/ [wiəd] /---奇怪的，区分wild/ [waild]/
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blurry 模糊的

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080124
Most school kids know thatsnakes can see with their noses. Wide percent (Vipersin) particular have these organs on their norgans(noggins) that allow them to see heat, which helps them to findtheir warm-blooded prey. If that’s not wild enough for you, now physicists fromGermany and Kansas say that snakes can hear with their jolts (jaws). And the (An)idea they present (+in an) upcoming issued (issue) in (of) physicalreview letters. See, snakes don’t have actual ears, at least not on the outside,but they do have fully-formed inner ear systems, complete with the cocklear（cochlea）, the fluent feel(fluid filled)bone that harvest(s) sound. But in snakes, the cocklear（cochlea） is connected to the jolt(jaw) bone. So if you walk pass a snake that is resting(+with) its head on the ground, the vibration(s) from your footsteps //(jiggle)snake’sjolts(jaw), which shakes the snake’s cooklear(cochlea), so the snake can hear you move. In fact,the physicists find(found) that this whole listeningwith your mouth side up(setup) can senseeven the tiny vibration(s) made by scamperingrodents and so(or) other small prey. And becausesnakes can enhance(unhinge) their jolts(jaws) one side at a time, they may be able to hear instereo, which means that tapping on the glass of the riddle snakes（rattlesnake）exhibit（+is） actually twice as(去掉) annoying as anyone ever realized.

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viper 毒蛇
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noggin 少量？
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jaws口；狭口；咽喉
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cochlea 耳蜗
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jiggle 轻摇
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setup 组织
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scampering rodents
惊慌跳跃的啮齿动物
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unhinge 分开

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080109
If you are invading me toeating (meat-eating) Argentineanants and you run out of prey, there is only one thing to do if you want to keepon invading, become a vegetarian. And that’s just what the Carnival’s (carnivorous) Argentinean ants that had (have) invaded California did; they switched and beganto eat vegetable matter. Knowing (No) these twomillimeter long creatures (critters) didn’tdevelop more (moral) qualms about eating meat,and they aren’t trying to save the planet, they just run out of their firstchoice, native ants. Researchers writing in the preceding (proceedings) of the national academy of sciences, see(say) that these ants gobbled up the nativeants, which can be ten times their size. The new comers then have (had) no choice but to carbon-lowed (carbo-load), switching over to such sweet tree (treats) as honeys do (honeydew)nectar produced by effits(aphids). Theants, which are believed to (+have) arrive(d) in California on ships carrying coffee and sugarfrom Argentina in 1890s, have caused problems for big creatures as well. Thecoastal holed (horned) lizard, which died(dined) on domestic ants, has declined in(the) numbers by about half recently, apparentlybecause the lizard doesn’t particularly care for Argentinean food.
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Argentinean or Argentinian 阿根廷的
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Carnivorous 食肉的
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Critter 小动物
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Proceeding 进程
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Gobble 狼吞虎咽
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Horned
有角的

zarina1990UID：2968274

20080108
Howfrequent are nightmares for tattlers (toddlers) andwhat causes them? These（Those）arequestions researchers at the University of Motrio (Montreal)hope to answer. They asked parents (+of) about1000 children to estimate the currents (occurrence) oftheir children’s (child’s) nightmares from age 2and half 3(through) age 6. The parents were alsoquestioned about their child’s disposition. First, it turns out that nightmaresaren’t so frequent. About (+a) third of theparents reported no nightmares at all. And then there is the second result.Kids who are called difficult as early as 5 month(s)were more often to suffer from nightmares as tattlers (toddlers).And the one (ones) who at a year and (+a) half for more anxious, more likely to cry, andmore difficult to come (calm) down, were alsomore likely to have bad dreams. The study authors say this means children maybewell like little adults. It’s already well-established that adults tend toexpress real life stress and emotional problems as nightmares. The researcherssuggest that focusing on the kids’ day time issues and on parenting techniques,may help banish night-time demons.
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Toddlers学步的小孩
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Calm down
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Occurrence 发生----别听成current