【Native Speaker每日综合训练—33系列】【33-04】科技

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[Time 2]
a key West Asian site hosted not one but two Homo species
[Time 3]
the importance of rift orientation relative to extension direction as key factor

deciding whether an ocean basin opens or an aborted rift basin forms in the

continental interior.
The West African rift featured a nearly orthogonal orientation with respect to

westward extension which required distinctly more force than its ultimately successful

Equatorial Atlantic opponent.
[Time4]
in terms of mechanical behaviour, the Neanderthal hyoid was basically

indistinguishable from our own, strongly suggesting that this key part of the vocal

tract was used in the same way.
[Time5]
A startup is developing machine-learning technology ，which it believes will make it

easier for smartphones and wearable devices to constantly listen for sounds of

danger.
The developer hopes Audio Aware will pique interest among makers of wearable

gadgets
[Time6]
Audio Aware will be able to work without access to a wireless network, but it will have to stream audio to a remote server when it learns new sounds
sound-recognition systems are constantly trying to home in on one signal among many, and it’s virtually impossible to predict in advance how these signals will combine.
[Paraphrase 7]
Genetic and environmental evidence indicates that after the ancestors of Native Americans left Asia, they spent 10,000 years in shrubby lowlands on a broad land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska. For a long time, it's lacking archaeological evidence.
In recent years sediment cores found pollens of trees and shrubs.IT suggests Beringia was not a uniform tundra-steppe environment, but a patchwork of environments.
Archaeological sites must be found in Beringia if the long human layover there is to be confirmed.

Obstacle居然读出了整篇文章的脉络：大众观点-缺乏的考古依据-又发现了依据-提出了正式新观点-最后希望获得考古验证。
以前碰到这么多生词，而且又是不熟悉的文章类型，真的会放弃。谢谢阅读小分队！！