新托福听写训练 第16期

Listen to a conversation between two students.

W:I think you would have enjoyed my geology class this morning.

M:Don't betbeg on it, I've never caredhear much about rocks.

W:But you do care about dinosaurs¹ I recall and today we discuss the geological evidence about what maymakes have killed off the dinosaurs at least here in North America.

M:Oh, sure, they got hit by a comet or something, I think.

W:Well, yeah, about 60 million years ago, a huge comet did crash into the earth down in Mexico and it plowedproduced out as an enormous crater² over a hundred miles acrossa clock.

M:And that's what why deathdoes the dinosaurs, right?

W:Well, it was not exactly the impact itself but what happened right afterward³.

M:You see researchers figured out from the shape of the crater

that's the comet must be coming in pretty low across Atlantic and so right after the impact a huge cloud of fire river? must swept clear across the north America, all in just a few minutes. And that what probably kill off not just the dinosaurs, but a lot of different species of plants and animals.

M:Amazing.

W:Yeah, and even 2000 miles from the impact, plants would have been burst in the flames.

M:And the fire that intense mustmostly destroy just about everything.

W:Well, above ground anyway.

M:Above ground? Say, I wonder if it that to explain why the dinosaurs were all disappeared but other animals like maybe small mammals living underground managed to survive.

W:Make sense, anyhow later on the tons of dusts that thrown away out into the atmosphere may have caused some global climate changes, so eventually the comet probably affected⁴ the plants and animals species all around the world but nowhere as much as the north America.

1 dinosaurs   

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西

参考例句：

• The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 crater   

n.火山口，弹坑

参考例句：

• With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。
• They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。

3 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。

4 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。