tpo听抄训练进度贴，逼自己，从今天开始，别让自己失望。

ldxwd19891012

悲剧啊，刚才打了那么多行，因为一个缺心眼的操作全没了。但艰难困苦都阻挡不了我这次发进度贴的决心。
本人大三学生，计划赴美读MASTER，托福、GMAT全没考，居然仍没心没肺DOTA度日，虚度光阴。去年TOEFL一战裸考78，惨不忍睹（这分我都没敢告诉我妈）。
如今六月二战迫在眉睫，没工夫瞎扯淡了，再上不了100真是真心没前途了。一个月啦，小弟在此放下豪言，不上100誓不罢休。
好吧，吹完牛，给自己订立每天必须完成的任务：
1晚上四个小时时间做一整套TPO听力部分,要笔记（这个太凌乱不发了）
2选择一篇LECTURE，听抄，具体步骤是：一句一句听记录英文----》对原文-----》找考点-----》跟读20遍或更多-----》总结生词，词组。
不知道时间够不够，不够再延长吧。
真心希望广大同路人，不吝赐教、监督、and 交流！

ldxwd19891012

两个小时才听完一套，外加一个半小时听抄改错。先把听抄结果发上来吧，好累，错的基本都是介词什么的，还有一些单词反映不过来，悲剧啊，好累。继续努力，一会儿再发考点和单词，最后完成跟读。。。。。。。。。。。。

ldxwd19891012

Great, today I want to talk about a way in which we are able to determine how old a piece of land or some other geologic feature is Dating techniques, I am going to talk about particular dating technique, why? Good dating is a key to good analysis. In other words, if you want know how a land formation was formed, the first thing you probably want to know is how old it is. It is fundamental.

Take the GC for instance, now we geologist thought we had a pretty good idea of how the GC in the southwestern united state was formed. we knew that it was formed from sandstone that solidified somewhere between 150 and 300 million years ago. Before it is solidified, it was just regular sand , essentially it was part of the vast desert. And until just recently , most of us thought the sand had come from an ancient mountain range fairly close by that flattened out over time. That is been the conventional wisdom among geologist for quite some time . but now we have learned something different and quite surprising using a technique called U L dating.

I should say that UL dating has been around for quite a while, but there have been some recent refinements. I will get into this in a minute, anyway UL dating has produced some surprises. Two geologists discovered that about half of the sand from the GC was actually once part of the apolition mountains. That is really eye-opening news since the apolition mountain range is ,of course , thousands of kilometers to east of the GC. Sounds pretty unbelievable ,right? Of course ,the obvious question is how did that sand end up so far west? Theory is that huge rivers and wind carried the sand west where it mixed in with the sand that was already there.well, this was pretty revolutionary finding, and it was basically because of UD dating, why, well as everyone in this class should know we usually look at the grain type within sand stone, meaning the actual particles of the sand stone to determine where it came from. You can do other things too, like look at the wind or the water that brought the grains to their location and figure out which way it was flowing. But That is only useful up to a point and that is not what these two geologists did,

UL dating allowed them to go about it in an entirely different way. What they did was: they looked at the grains of the ZC in the sandstone. ZC is material that contains radio active U , which makes it very useful for dating purposes, ZC starts off molten magma the hot lava of volcanoes,  this magma then crystallizes. And when ZC crystallizes, the U inside it begins to change into lead so if you measure the amount of lead in the ZC grain, you can figure out when the grain was formed. After that , you can determine age of ZC from different mountain ranges. Once you do that , you can compare the age of the ZC in the sand stone in your sample to the age of ZC in the mountains.  If the age the ZC matches the age of one of your mountain ranges, then it means the sand stone actually used to be part of that particular mountain range . Is everybody with me on that ? good .

so in this case UL dating was used to establish that half of sand stone in the samples was formed at the same time the granite in the apolition mountains was formed. So because of this , this new way of doing UL dating we have able to determine that one of our major assumptions about the  GC was wrong.

Like I said before , U L dating has been with us for a while ,but until recently, in order to do it , you really had to study many individual grains . and ~. It took a long time before you got results , it just was not very efficient. and it was not very accurate. But technical advances have cut down on the number of grains you have to study, so you get your results faster. So I will predict that  UL dating  is going to become a popular dating method.

There are a few pretty exciting possibilities of UL dating . here is the one that come to mind , you know the theory that earth’s continents were once joined together and only split apart relative recently? Well, with UL dating we can prove that more conclusively. If they show evidence of once having been joined, that could really tell us a lot of the early history of the planet’s geology.

magicalcc

DOTA....LZ这个太费时间了。。。

ldxwd19891012

啊呗，总是猛学两天，然后必然松懈两天来和同学们DOTA，上瘾，感觉根本管不住自己，真是不能这样啊。。。

zealdin

长期调无敌打单机刀塔的路过..

ldxwd19891012

...那你肯定没我上瘾，也挺好

ldxwd19891012

今天其实小悲剧了，奇了，纵观XDJM的进度贴，第二天总是充满各种小悲情，各种意外因素。这或许是上天的考验吧，开始总是艰难的吧。
上午上课啊，没咋听，学习了学习写作，中午把我心爱的眼镜丢了，1000大洋啊，我嘞个去，都快能考次托了。。。下午万分纠结，写了写老师布置的论文。晚上一直练听力到现在，感觉好些了。做了一个LECTURE的听抄，比昨天快好多，可能是不太认真吧，不过效果到了。
真的发现托福听力其实非常有规律可循，哪里该重点听，哪里该记住信息，哪里要用逻辑去理解，文章都给予了很强的暗示。虽然我还不能再听的时候找到这些规律，但我估计总会修炼成功的。
加油啊！
Ok we have been talking about early agriculture in the N~ist, so let us concentrate on one site and see we can learn from it.(“so let’s concentrate on” elicits the main topic )

CH ,that is about the closes we guess in English. It is turkeyish really? The sites in modern Deturkey and who knows what the original inhabitants called it. Anyway CH was not the 1st the agricultural settlements in the Nist, but it was pretty early. Settled in 9 thousand years ago in the N period. And the settlement, a town really, lasted about thousands years and grow to a size about 8 or 10 thousand people. That certainly makes one of the largest town in the word at that time.
one of the thing that makes the settlement of this sites impressive is the time period , it is the N remember ? the late stone age so the people that lived there had only stone tools no metals, so everything they are complished like building this town, they did was just stone,plus brisk that sort of thing. But you got remember that was not just the any stone they had they had obsidian. Well, obsidian is a black , volcanic ,well, almost like glass. It flake very nicely and very sharp points. the sharpest tools of the entire stone age was made of obsidian.(“tools made by obsidian” is obvious a point in the passage and generally the sort of words like “sharpest” is very important.) And the people of CH got theirs from further inland from central turkey traded for it probably.

Anyway what I want to forcus on is the way the town was built, the houses all rectangular one story made of sun dried brisks. But what really interesting is that there are no spaces between them , no street in other words and so generally no doors on the houses either. People walked around on the roofs and enter the house through a hatch way on the roof down the wooden ladder. You can still see daiageno marks of the ladder in the plaster on inside walls. Once you were in the house , there will be one main room and a couple of small rooms for storage. The main room has the hass for cooking and for heat , it would be pretty cold during the winters. And umm… it also looks like they made their tools near the fire, there tends to be a lot of obsidian flakes and chips in the hass ashes. But no chimeney, the smoke just went out the same hatch way the people use to for going in and out themselves.(these two parts stress the word “hatch” twice which is used for entering the house.) So there would not be open fire inside the house because with only one hole in the roof to let the smoke out. You and I will find it a bit too smoky in there. You can see on the walls, which they plastered and decorated with paintings they ended up with layer of black soot on them. And so did people’s lunes, the bones found in the graves showed a layer of soot(“soot” appear twice ,stressing it is important ) on the inside of the ribs,
that is another feature of CH the burial sites. The graves have all been found under the house right under the floors(this is the particular content of “another feature”, so there has a question), and this burial custom that is explained why the houses was piked so tightly without streets.  I mean you might think It was for protection or something but there has been no evidence found yet of any violent that indict that kind of danger.  It may be they want to live as near as possible to their ancester’s graves and be buried near them themselves.

But makes a good point ,based on next excavation, we can know the lay of the houses and the locations of the graves, but were only guessing when we try to say why they did it that way.(“but” is very important, so it elicit the implication.) That is the way it is with archeology. You are dealing the psycals remains the people left behind. We have no sure excess to what they thought and how they felt about things. I mean it is interesting to speculate that psycal artifest can give us clues but there is a lot we can really know. So for instance, their art, they painted on the plaster walls, and usually they painted on the hunting scenes with wide animals thin them. Now they did hunt and they also raise cereal crops that capture sheep, but we don’t know the reason why some many of the painting are hunting scenes.(it is a sort of controversy that tell us they did not often show the scene of raising crops)  Was it supposed to have religious or magical significance?  That is kind of thing we can only guess that, based on clues, and hopefully further excavation of CH will yield more clues, but more probably never know for sure.

magicalcc

LZ你的听写是写在纸上的？
现在还流行dota?貌似是我当年寝室玩的东西了嘛哈哈！当年寝室VS黑点一波流的啊~~
现在好像很多人玩星际2了~~

ldxwd19891012

没写纸上，为了上传边听就边直接输到word里了，所以又慢又累，就当练打字了吧，哈哈。
话说dota和同学们配合开黑挺有意思，估计以后毕业了就不会再玩了吧。星际二半年前玩过破解版，自己水平太低就放弃了。。。