邱政政托福听力十大必背段子
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1. 000139 文科段子:艺术类音乐

  it may seem strange that we’’re discussing music from a broadway production in this class, "the lion king" especially, since it’’s based on a popular hollywood movie. i mean music preformed for broadway theater in the heart of new york city surely would seem to be in the western tradition of popular music and not have much in common with the music we have been studying in this course, such as gamelan music of indonesia, or zulu chants of south africa, music that developed outside the western tradition of europe and america. but in fact, musicians have a long-standing tradition of borrowing front one another’’s cultures. and this production’’s director intentionally1 included both western and non-western music. that way, some of the rhythms, instrument, and harmonies typical of non-western music contrast with and complement2 popular music more familiar to audiences in north america and europe, music like rock, jazz or broadway style show tunes3. so i want to spend the rest of this class and most of the next one on the music from the show "the lion king" as a way of summarizing some of the technical distinctions between typical western music and the non-western music that we’’ve been studying. now the african influence on the music is clear. the story takes place in africa. so the director got a south african composer to write songs with a distinctly african sound. and the songs even include words from african languages. but we’’ll get back to the african influence later. first let’’s turn to the music that was written for the shadow puppet scenes in "the lion king", music based on the indonesian music used in the shadow puppet theater of that region

  2. 000143 理科段子:天文学

  in ancient times, many people believed the earth was a flat disc. well over 2,000 years ago; the ancient greek philosophers were able to put forward two good arguments proving that it was not. direct observations of heavenly bodies were the basis of both these arguments. first, the greeks knew that during eclipses of the moon the earth was between the sun and the moon, and they saw that during these eclipses, the earth’’s shadow on the moon was always round, they realized that this could be true only if the earth was spherical4, it the earth was a flat disc, then its shadow during eclipses would not be a prefect circle; it would be stretched out into a long ellipse. the second argument was based on what the greeks saw during their travels. they noticed that the north star, or polaris, appeared lower in the sky when they traveled south, in the more northerly regions, the north star appeared to them to be much higher in the sky. by the way, it was also from this difference in the apparent position of the north star that the greeks first calculated the approximate distance around the circumference5 of the earth, a figure recorded in ancient documents says 400.000 stadium, that’’s the plural6 of the world stadium. today, it’’s not known exactly what length one stadium represents, but let’’s say it was about 200 meters, the length of many athletic7 stadiums. this would make the greek’’s estimate about twice the figure accepted today, a very good estimate for those writing so long before even the first telescope was invented.



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1 intentionally 7qOzFn     
ad.故意地,有意地
参考例句:
  • I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
  • The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所,因此没有资格再获得提供住房。
2 complement ZbTyZ     
n.补足物,船上的定员;补语;vt.补充,补足
参考例句:
  • The two suggestions complement each other.这两条建议相互补充。
  • They oppose each other also complement each other.它们相辅相成。
3 tunes 175b0afea09410c65d28e4b62c406c21     
n.曲调,曲子( tune的名词复数 )v.调音( tune的第三人称单数 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
参考例句:
  • a potpourri of tunes 乐曲集锦
  • When things get a bit too much, she simply tunes out temporarily. 碰到事情太棘手时,她干脆暂时撒手不管。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 spherical 7FqzQ     
adj.球形的;球面的
参考例句:
  • The Earth is a nearly spherical planet.地球是一个近似球体的行星。
  • Many engineers shy away from spherical projection methods.许多工程师对球面投影法有畏难情绪。
5 circumference HOszh     
n.圆周,周长,圆周线
参考例句:
  • It's a mile round the circumference of the field.运动场周长一英里。
  • The diameter and the circumference of a circle correlate.圆的直径与圆周有相互关系。
6 plural c2WzP     
n.复数;复数形式;adj.复数的
参考例句:
  • Most plural nouns in English end in's '.英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
  • Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。
7 athletic sOPy8     
adj.擅长运动的,强健的;活跃的,体格健壮的
参考例句:
  • This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
  • He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。
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