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智课网TOEFL备考资料老托福听力93篇(55-56)-Yesterday we 摘要： 老托福听力93篇(55-56)-Yesterday we 。新托福听力能力的提高冰冻三尺非一日之寒，我们需要在平常的点点滴滴开始托福听力能力的提高和积累，更多托福辅导请继续关注小马过河托福频道。 备考 托福 听力中有很多选择，而老 托福听力 材料就是其中很好的一个选择，小编为大家收集整理了93篇老托福听力。 老托福听力材料中，Part C的lectures是适合用来练习精听的材料，老托福听力对 新托福 听力的备考依然有重要的作用,老托福听力的语速比较快,有助于提高同学们的辨音能力,老托福听力精选93篇包括英文原文+音频，考生们不妨练习一下。 55 Yesterday we talked about the anecdote. Today were going to move on to one of the most popular literary forms in Western literaturethe short story. A short story is a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words. Although its similar to the anecdote, its really a separate literary form. Youll remember that the anecdotes sole purpose is to entertain, and that it does this by relating a curious or interesting event. Well, there are also events in short stories, but the short story uses the event as something a character reacts to. The readers interest is captured by the effect that this event has on the character in the story. Were even likely to reread a short story to better understand the character who is being portrayed and why a certain event led to a certain response or action. A short story, though, is not just a short novel. A novel is narrative. It tells a detailed story that usually takes place over a long period of time. A short story is less comprehensive than a novel, and the focus is on a characters mental reaction to an experience. This reaction is the heart of the short story. Now I want you to think back to the short story you read for homework and Ill give you a list of questions to think about. 【生词摘录】 1. anecdote: n. C轶事，奇闻 2. prose: n. C散文 3. fiction: n. C小说 4. separate: adj. 不同的 5. entertain: v. 娱乐 6. relate: v. 叙述 7. capture: v. 俘获 8. reread: v. 重读，再读 9. narrative: adj. 叙述性的 10. detailed: adj. 详细的 11. comprehensive: adj. 全面的 56 One reason oceanographers analyze the sediment on the ocean floor is to see how long-term changes in Earths temperature have affected the depth of the ocean. By analyzing the remains of sea animals in old layers of ocean sediment, oceanographers can determine the depth of the ocean in the past. Theyve analyzed hundreds of such layers, including some from the coldest periods of Earths historythe ice ages. What theyve found is that during the ice ages, the amount of water in the oceans decreased. Water levels in the ocean dropped by about four hundred feet. Water from the ocean evaporated and became frozen in continental glaciers, so it didnt drain back into the ocean. When temperatures eventually rose again, the glaciers melted, and the oceans returned to their former depths. Analysis of sedimentary data indicates that periods of glacial freezing and melting occurred in regular cycles of twenty thousand, forty thousand, and one hundred thousand years. Oceanographers are interested in the history of seawater levels because they hope to use this historical data in order to predict the possible effect that global warming could have on seawater levels. If industrial pollutants are capable of heating global temperatures to the point that glaciers begin to melt, it is urgent for us to know precisely how high sea levels will rise as a result. 【生词摘录】 1. oceanographer: n. C海洋学者，海洋研究者 2. sediment: n. C沉淀物 3. glacier: n. C