托福听力每日一练第9天：（96年12月）
演讲听写训练 1
I need to make sure you understand how to get housing for next year. When you entered as first year student this year, the school assigned you to a dorm and a roommate. But next year as returning students, you'll choose both your roommate and your dorm. But whether or not you actually get to live in your first choice depends on what number you or your roommate draws in the lottery system. The system gives priority to the students who have been here the longest. Fourth year students get the first block of numbers, third years get the second block and second years, like you'll be, get the third. The lower the number you draw, the sooner you choose. No. one gets the first choice, No. two gets the second choice, and so on. You can use either your own or your intended roommate's number to make your room choice. If your roommate for next year has been in the school longer than you have, they'll be in a better block of numbers and so will have a better number than any second year student. But most of you will probably be rooming with other second year students and so neither of you may have a great number. You may not get into your first or even second choice. Of course, if you've made plans to live off campus, you don't need to enter the lottery at all. Dorm space will be especially tight this year because the dorms on north campus will be closed for renovations. This means that those of you who draw the worst numbers won't be able to get dorm housing at all. In that case the housing office will help you find off campus housing.
演讲听写训练 2
Before I tell you about the interesting discovery related to the tyrannosaurus rex, I need to review something we studied last semester: the difference between what we commonly called cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals. In warm-blooded animals, birds and mammals for examples, the body temperature normally stays within a narrow range no matter what the outside temperature is. As a result, a warm-blooded animal is usually active in both cold and hot weather because the body temperature can adjust to the temperature as in the environment. On the other hand, cold-blooded animals, such as most reptiles, amphibians and insects, are unable to create enough heat internally to raise their temperature above the temperature of the environment. So, for example, the temperature of a cold-blooded animal falls when the environment is cool. I hope this extension is clear. Now moving on to the tyrannosaurus rex, you may know that dinosaurs being reptiles are generally believed to have been cold-blooded. Well, a recent research study has found that a chemical composition of the bone of the tyrannosaurus rex was consistent with the bone of the animal that has a very narrow range of the internal temperature, indicating that it was probably warm-blooded.
演讲听写训练 3
Thank you all for coming out this evening to meet sociologist Allen Lambert. Ms. Lambert specializes in research on work place and recently has been writing about the future of work. This topic should have been of special interest since I know many of you are already at the forefront of the work place technology. For example, let's have a show of hands to see how many people here telecommute at least part of the time. Mm, I see eight hands raised. Well, you eight folks who work at home and communicate with the office by the computer represent one of the trends Ms. Lambert has described. The people are becoming less tied to the work place. One of the important tools for telecommuting is electronic mail or email. Email let you send and receive messages almost immediately on your computer.
But you control when you read them and when you respond to them. This technology allows people to have more control over time than one relying solely on the telephone. Our guest tonight will discuss how these important changes will alter the way we work. But before turning the floor over to Ms. Lambert, I would just like to remind you that she will be available to answer any individual questions at the reception immediately following the talk.
