托福听力每日一练第33天：
演讲听写训练1：
Good evenings, ladies and gentleman, my name is Ellis Brown. As you know we hold a series of events during the school year on various cultural topics, I am happy there is such a large crowd of both students and professors at this, the second of our time out pretty art presentations this year. I think almost every seat is taken. Tonight we’re lucky to have as our guest, a man of considerable fame in the world of music. He began to play the piano at age 5. By the time he was 10, he was already composing and playing his own pieces. He is a graduate of a famous art school in New York City. Our guest has spent the last 45 years of his very successful career touring the world playing concert. We are fortunate that he consented to come and share some of his experiences with us. He has had many adventures along the way. Locked instruments, missed connections, no hotel room, locked concert hall and so on. He has played for all of the most well-known conductors, not only in north America, but all over the world. The title of his talk is the concert tour- forty years on four continents. Please join me and welcome Mr. Daniel Robertson, one of the foremost pianist of our day.
演讲听写训练2：
Let’s turn our focus now to advertising. We all know what an advertisement is. It’s essentially a message that announces something for sale. Now there’s an important precondition that must exist before you have advertising , and that’s a large supply of consumer goods, that is things to sell. You see in a place where the demand for a product is greater than the supply, there’s no need to advertise. Now the earliest forms of advertising going back many hundreds of years with a simple sign over shop doors that told you whether the shop was a bakery, a butcher shop or what have you. Then with the advent of the printing, advertising increased substantially. As for product like coffee, tea and chocolate appeared in newspapers and other periodicals, as well as on the sides of building. In the American colonies, advertising and communication media like newspapers and pamphlets became a major factor in marketing goods and services. By modern standard, these early advertisements were quite small and subdued, not as splashy, whole page spread of today. Still some of them appeared on the front pages of newspapers probably because the news often consisted of less refresh reports from distant Europe while the news were current and local. Advertising really came and do it so and became an essential part of doing business during the industrial revolution. Suddenly there was a much greater supply of things to sell. And as we said earlier, that is the driving force behind advertising. People’s attention had to be drawn to the new product. Let’s take a look at some of the advertisements from that time.
演讲听写训练3：
We know then that in the United States it’s the job of congress to review proposed new laws which we call bills, and perhaps to modify these bills and then vote on them. But even if the bill passes in congress it still doesn’t become a law until the president had a chance to review it too. And if it’s not to the president liking, the bill can be vetoed or killed in either of two ways. One is by a veto message. The president has ten days to veto the bill by returning it to congress along with a message explaining why it’s being rejected. This keeps the bill from becoming a law unless overwhelming majorities of both houses of congress vote to override the president’s veto, something they rarely do. Often law makers simply revise the vetoed bill and pass it again. This time in a form that the president less likely to objective and thus less likely to want to veto. The other way the president can kill a bill is by pocket veto. Here is what happens. If the president doesn’t sign the bill within ten days and congress drew in during that time, then the bill will not become law. Notice that it’s only at the end of an entire session of congress that the pocket veto can be used, not just whenever congress takes the shorter break, say for a summer vacation. After a pocket veto, that particular bill is dead. If the law makers in congress want to push the matter in their next session, they will have to start all over with a brand-new version the bill.
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