托福备考日记

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单词背到list 15。 还有一半就可以背完了。但是很多单词都是背完之后，回过头看看又忘记了

什么时候才能够记住呢。

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I quit the job, first I dont like the work environment, i know it is a big company I know they offered me very competiteable salary and benefit. but after three days training, I was totally died after I came back home. It is not what I want. I am not picky. I will take whatever job I can take. But, I need time to prepare my toefl test. I will have no time to prepare and just waste the application fee if i would stay  in the new job for three month.

so I quit.

Hi, everyone, I am back.

Today, word list

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I have no idea what is wrong with my laptop, cant type chinese under firefox.

TPO i finished 6 listening, but no reading/writing and speaking.

it is time to start these parts.

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今天在图书馆借到关于进化论的书
我试着把这本书的一些东西打在我的日记里。
Part One Darwin and the beagle  

Darwin had  grown up along the banks of the Severn River in Shropshire, collecting pebbles and birds, completely unaware of the fortunes that made his like pleasant.

His mother, Susanah, came from the wealthy Wedgwood family, which made china of the same name.

Although his father, Robert, came from less wealthy stock, he built up a fortune of his own by working as a doctor and discreetly(adv.谨慎地；小心地) lending money to his patients.

He eventually became rich enough to build his family a large house, the Mount, on a hillside overlooking the Severn.

Charles and his older brother Erasmus had the close, practically telepathic connection that brothers sometimes have. As teenagers they built themselves a laboratory at the Mount where they would dabble in chemicals and crystals. When Charles was 16, Erasmus went to Edinburgh to study medicine. Their father sent Charles along with him to keep Erasmus company, and ultimately to go to medical school as well. Charles was happy to tag along, for the company of his brother and for the adventure.

...Charles and his brother recoiled into each other's company, spending their time talking together, walking along the shore, reading newspapers, and going to the theater.

Charles realized  very quickly that he hated medicine. The lectures were dreary. He kept himself busy with natural history. But although Charles knew that he could not become a doctor, he had no appetite for standing up to his father.

When he camee home to the Mount for the summer, he avoided bringing up the matter, spending his days instead shooting birds and learning how to stuff them. He would continue to avoid confrontations for the rest of his life.

...He became frinds with naturalists in Edinburgh, including a zoologist named Rober Grant, who took him under his wing.

Grant had been trained as a doctor but had given up his practice to become one of the country's great zoologists, studying sea pens, sponges, and other creatures that scientists of the time still knew almost nothing about .

He showed Darwin the tricks of zoology: how, for instance, to dissect(解剖）marine creatures in seawater under a microscope.

And Darwin in turn proved to be a bright apprentice;he was the first person ever to see the male and female sex cells of seaweed dance together.

...He finally confessed (v.承认；供认；告解；听取忏悔) that he couldnt become a doctor. His father was furious.

...
He searched for the insects on the heaths (n.荒地；[植]石南) and in the forests; to find the rarest species, he hired a laborer to scrape moss off trees and muck out the bottom of barges filled with reeds.

He wanted to travel as well, to discover something about how nature worked.

He was devastated(元气大伤)

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Buidling he earth

British geologists, for example, no longer accepted that the world was only a few thousand years old.

It had once been enough to accept the literal word of the Bible, that humanity was created in the first week of creation.

Geologists could find fossils of shells and other signs of marine life in the layers of rock exposed in cliff faces.

Early geologists interpreted the fossils as the remains of animals killed during Noah's Flood.

when the oceans covered Earth, they were buried in the muck(n.垃圾；粪肥；污物；淤泥) that washed to the bottom.

好巧今天做小马第二个礼包的时候就看到了和这个相关联的文章。关于地形的形成

Other geologists argued that the forces creating Earth's surface were coming from within. James Hutton envisioned a hot molten core of the planet pushing up granite from below, creating volcanoes in some places and uplifting vast parts of Earth's surface in others. Rain and wind eroded mountains and other raised parts of the planet, and this sediment was carried to the ocean, where it formed new rock that would be raised above sea level later, in a series of global cycles of creation and destruction（破坏，毁灭）

我把小马的参照文附上。可以参照含对比看。