【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

20080116
Any successful business person can tell youabout the importance of face time, actually sitting down with clients, coworkersmaybe even competitors. But there are maybe (theremay be) even more (to) this whole face toface business than meets the eye, or exactly as much as meets the eye. Because that(去掉) a new study from the top (Tufts) universitiessuggests that the successful(the success of a) corporationrests squarely on the face of its CEO. The researchers took photos of 50 CEOsfrom highest and lowest rank fortune 1000 companies. They showed these picturesto a group of undergrants (undergrads). Theyasked the students to read(rate) each face onwhether its owner looked confident(competent),dominant, likable, mature,(+or) trustworthy.What they found is that (+the) students’impressions tracked with companies’ profits. The more powerful and leaderlikethe CEO appeared, the more successful the corporation even though the CEOs wereall pretty much middle-aged white guys in ties. The study which will appear in//(February) issue of psychological science,does not say whether profitable companies tend to promote people(+who) look like leaders, or whether successful CEOsgrow to look the part. Either way looks like a company’s financial about facecan actually be about face.
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undergrad 在校生
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rate 估价
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February 二月（听出来没反应上）

Morton_SUID: 2976497

请问你模仿发音吗？
我现在除了想听懂之外还想自己也发音正确，但是发现这样每天效率很低，甚至若干小时只能进行一篇听写，其他时间就在弄发音，口音了 10# zarina1990

zarina1990UID: 2968274

47# Morton_S

我目前没有用这个材料模仿发音，我有时候读一读新概念4的课文，熟悉熟悉发音。
差不多每篇连听写带修改也得一个小时左右吧。
我自己口音还可以，就是还是缺乏老美的调调。
按理说口语和听力一起提高是最好的，但是条件所限（我在自习室听写，没办法读），所以还没有练跟读~~

zarina1990UID: 2968274

20080117

Remember the Seinfield(Seinfeld) with(where)the lunatic in the clown costume asked Kramer if he was still afraid of clownsand Kramer said yeah, while(well), he is not theonly one. A study of hospitalized kids in England found that they positivelyhate clowns, which are often depicted on the walls in children’s words.Researchers from the University of Shefeild(Seinfeld)took another(the novel) approach of actuallyinterview(ing) in(去掉) children rather than relying on thedoubt（adult）ideas about what kids like. They spoke to 255 kids between the age of 4 and 16and none of them liked clowns. According to the magazine Nursing Standard, oneresearcher said, we found that clowns are universally disliked by children.Some found them frightening and unknowable. Some representative comments fromkinds
(the kids) werethat clowns are scary and the(they’re) kind of//(creepy,) the clowns. Yeah. On the other hand,kids do like images of the Simpsons, // square pants( Spongebob Squarepants),characters from Monsters inc, pictures of local teams and athletes and photosof the local region. The researchers created a guy (guide)to kid friendly(kid-friendlier) hospitalenvironment(s) at tiny URL. Com/YPZOFX.

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Creepy 毛骨悚然
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Spongbob 海绵宝宝

zarina1990UID: 2968274

20080118


Gonna watch the Anifer(NFL) conference championship games on Sunday? You’llsee evidence for a new finding aggression is rewarding. In what scientists fromVetable (Vanderbilt) University say as (is) the first study of this(its)kind. They report that aggressive behavior triggers Dopermean (dopamine,之后不再修改), a neural trance within（neurotransmitter in）thebrain that was(is) known to be part of the(a) reward system. Dopermean level increases when peopleand animals get food, sex, and drugs like Coukin（cocaine）. The researchers reported（report） in the online edition on the Journal Psycho-pharmacology that when a caged male mouse was faced with an intrusive malemouse that replaced a（the）
female previously in the cage. Thefirst male got aggressive. He bit the(and) box(boxed) the intilopper(interloper).But when the intruder was removed, the mouse with engaged（would engage） inbehavior that he learned would bring his target back. The researchers think theaggression was its own reward. More evidence, when the mouse that was deprivedof its(his) female companion got a drug thatinactivated Dopermean’s receptors, he brought the intruder back lessfrequently. So remember that when Michael//( Strahan is)smashing into bright farm(Brett Farve),he really really likes it.
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NFL/ en ef 'el/全国橄榄球联盟

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Dopamine 多巴胺
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Neurotransmitter 神经递质
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Cocaine 可卡因
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Psycho- pharmacology精神病药物学
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Interloper 侵入者

zarina1990UID: 2968274

SSS-20080121

Talk about a desperate cry for attention. Apump(palm) tree discovered in managaz got(Madagascar) literally flowers itself to death. At theend of the life cycle, appearing (a pyraimid of)hundreds of tiny white flowers spring from the top of the tree. Theflowers trip（drip）
with nectar announcing //(the palm’s swan song to)swarms of birds and insects.Once pollinated, the tree sends all remaining nutrients to its flowers as theydevelop into fruit. Then it collapses and dies. According to the Cue (Kew) Royal Botanical Garden in London which announces(ed) the discovery, the tree also has a remarkablelife. It stands fifty feet tall and has fan-shaped leaves that are 50 (at 15) feet diameter. Rincomoga (, ranking amoung the) largest of any flowers(ing) plant. It might to guess massive poem(It's Madagascar's mostmassive palm and)can even be spotted on Google Earth. What’s more, DNAanalysis shows that it’s not just a new species but in (an)entirely new genus. This discovery comes right in time, feel that(fewer than) a hundred of the pom(palms) still exist. Conservation ..segrabbling tofind .. in hard seeds(Conservationists are now scrambling to find survivors andharvest seeds). Lucky for the tree, it puts on one can’t miss performance.
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Palm tree 棕榈树
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Pyramid 金字塔
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Drip with nectar
滴下花蜜
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Swan song 绝唱
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Swarm 群
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Conservationist 自然资源保护论者
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Scramble 争夺、攀登、仓促的做



今天听的一塌糊涂，好久没听了。哎！

zarina1990UID: 2968274

20080122
When you hear things like human DNA differs from chip (chimp) DNA by only a couple percent, you can’t help butwonder. How can that be? How can so few changes make such a big difference? Researchersworking with fruits bats and mice think they have an answer and analyze (it lies) less than (in)animals’ genes, and then (than) the shortnabits (snippets) of DNA that control when andwhere and how vigorously genes are turned on. If you very（’ve ever）thoughtthat a bat is basically just rotten(a rodent)with wings, you are not too far from the mark. One of the most obviousdifferences between bats and mice is their forearms. Mice have these stubbylegs and bats have these large leathery wings. But even those differences arenot as major as you might imagine. Mice and bats both have a gene called PRX1,which regulates limb development. But the gene is more active in the body (budding) wings of bats. So the researchers took thepiece of DNA that controls PRX1 activity from a bat and stuck it to (into) a mouse. The result, pictured in the January 15issue of Genes (+and) Development, mice that havelonger front legs. OK, they didn’t //(spout)wings, but the study shows that even small changes can have big consequences.

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Chimp 黑猩猩
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Snippet 小片、小段、片段
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Rodent啮齿动物
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Leathery似皮革的，皮质的；坚韧如皮革的
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Budding 发育期的、萌芽的
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Issue发行物
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Spout (talkin a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner) :滔滔不绝地讲

zarina1990UID: 2968274

20080123
It’s the kind of thing we can look forwardto more in the coming years--personalized drug regiments based on ourindividual DNA. The example of this new kind of personalized medicine isillustrated by a study in the January 23rd issue of the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association. Researchers found that hypertension patients had betterresults with different drugs depending on the patients’ genetic profiles.Currently, for the most part, doctors will put people with high blood pressureon the (a) standard BP medication and see if itworks. If it doesn’t, they’ll try another drug until this trial aero (trial and error) system finds (+a) good one. But genetic profiling could let physicians know immediatelywhich patient will response (respond) to whichdrug. The study of genetics in BP might (meds)include over 38 thousand subjects with high blood pressure in the US and Canadawho are taken(ing) part in a large motor center (multicenter) trial. With personalize genomicsequencing become(becoming) affordable in thenext few years, many of us should finally know in advance, not just our risksfor disease, but what medications will be most effective.
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Regiment
团、大量
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trial and error 试误法
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physician 内科医生

zarina1990UID: 2968274

20080110
Some genes that contribute to diseases canbe traced back to us as know (what’s known) asa founder mutation. It’s the first instance of that specific mutation, which standsget (then gets) carried by all subsequentgenerations. Mutations in one specific gene are known to give carriers a 69percent greater risk of colon cancer by the age of 80. But it can be tough tofigure out who has it. Luckily the marm and (Mormon)church keep(s) great family records.Researchers at the University of Utah were able to figure out that thismutation occurred in only two extended families, one in Utah and one in New York.So this is expected(they suspected) that somewherein history lurked a founder. They calling asked be(used colonoscopy) information, genetic analysis offamily members, and genealogical data and moment(Mormon)archives to trace the mutation all the way back to one couple. When Mr. andMrs. George Fry came to America from England in about 1630, they had no ideathat they were bringing along the colon cancer risk gene. Fortunately, the Fry’s (Frys’) hundredsof twenty first century decedents can be monitored and treated at first sight (sign) of this disease.

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Colonoscopy结肠镜检查
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Genealogical宗谱的；系谱的；家系的
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Archive 档案

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

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

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

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

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

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