【Native Speaker每日综合训练—35系列】【35-04】科技

Lisauce

THX~~放假结束~~做作业！T5T6完全晕死了。。果然看这种科技文还是差太远。。

SPEAKER

Saltine-Sized Satellites Set For Space

Saltine crackers 苏打饼干

Magnetometer n. 磁强计 [电磁] 磁力计

A graduated student from Cornell University found a project that send thousands of satellites into space, and these kinds of satellites are so small that no bigger than saltine crackers.

The founder of the project said that the satellites won’t be very expensive and many people may have their own one in the future.

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SPEED

掌管 5   00:01:55.76  00:14:34.81

掌管 4   00:02:51.30  00:12:39.05

掌管 3   00:03:04.27  00:09:47.75

掌管 2   00:02:49.68  00:06:43.48

掌管 1   00:03:53.79  00:03:53.79

See-through shrimp flex invisible muscle

T2

This passage introduced a kind of shrimper that has the special way to camouflage.

The shrimp is transparent enough to read through, but it’s not some frail, filmy thing. It’s packed with invisible muscle.

The most part of the shrimpers are invisible so it’s very difficult to catch one, but scientist LB successful caught some and brought them back to the lab.

When the scientist puts these shrimpers in the lab, they acted very funny.

Their stomach is clear when they are hungry and the dotted things disappear.

The scientist will try to find out why they are soon become visible after they die.

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Quieter vibes for city spiders

T3

This passage can be separated for three parts.

In the first part, the author makes a general conclusion for the new scientist’s report and introduced some other examples.

The spider always builds a net in the morning and eats it in the night, and during the day the spider stay still in its net to wait for its dinner. The question is that how does the net materials’ effect on the sensitivity of the spider for the vibration. (The scientists think that the man made material dampens a web’s natural vibration, and that could make it harder for spider to know that dinner is calling.)

In the second part, the author shows the experiment of the scientist.

Dr. Wu used 50 spiders in his experiment and these spiders’ spares in different areas of Taipei.

In the last part, the scientists made his own conclusion that City traffic noise appeared to have no effect on a spider's awareness of its prey but where a spider anchored its web might.

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Fungal fight club

T4

Battles between mushrooms don't make a sound, but they're violent.

Combat between fungal individuals is a bit like war between heaps of spaghetti.

Fungi struggling for territory remind Buddy of a sports league. Some fungi can beat others while they are beat by another kind of fungus. Some other conditions such as heat or soggy conditions brings out the greatness in some competitors but dooms others.

Climate change can affect who wins fights

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Exotic particle packs a foursome of quarks

T5

Scientist used to use two- and three-quark to predict the particles but currently they find some particles do not fit into this category so they tried to explain the mysterious nature of the particle have inadvertently discovered other odd particles.

The rediscovery of an exotic particle provides the best evidence yet that quartets of quarks exist in a universe dominated by two- and three-quark matter, but now scientists are automatically proving that four-quark states exist

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T6        

Now a third experiment has chimed in with confirmation of Z(4430)’s existence.

The unmistakable detection gives LHCb researchers confidence that Z(4430) is a single particle made up of four quarks

Some theorists say that Zc(3900), announced last June (SN: 7/27/13, p. 9), is not a single particle.

The next step, Skwarnicki says, is to figure out the internal composition of Z(4430) and its (possible) four-quark relatives.

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OBSTACLE

Mercury has a long history of exploding volcanoes

画画2013

Speaker
Zach Manchester builds up a new project that will allow everyone to send its satellite into space and do wantever it want within the satellite.
The satellite is as small as a sltine cracker, and each one has just has some simple compoments.
Time2 3'06
Bagge tried to catch the invisible shrimps and watched them in the lab. She found that the visble organs are bunched and the yellowish eggs in female shrimps destroy the invisible camouflage.
Time3 2'31
main idea: spiders work better in some quite places than other places. Spiders will affect quickly if the web is mobile much.
Different matrials can affect the vibration of the webs.
Time4 3'02 好多生词……
Fungi will kill other less better ones to take over their terrirotries.
Boddy found that Fungi can release enzymes to dissolve their opponents flesh or poison them.
However, the research of Bodddy neglect the fact that the shifts in league rank also depend on the extent of nibbling by small woodland arthropods.
Time5 1'46
In genereal, quarks and antiquarks cluster in threes to form baryons and in pairs to produce mesons.
However, Physicists in Japan found a especial one, which could not fit any category.
According to the research, scientists try to explain the mysterious nature of the particle.
Time6 1'43
A unmistakable detection gives researchers confidence that Z(4430)is a singe particle made up of four quarks, and the researchers' next step is to figure out the internal composition of Z(4430) and its possible 4-quark relatives.
Obstacle 5'05
lid off 下岗
bereft 丧失的，被剥夺的
pyroclastic 火成碎屑物
MAIN IDEA: Mercury has a long history of exploding vocanoes.
Mercury has long been thought to be bone dry, but the data from Menssengers shows that this assume is wrong.
The date shows that the Mercury didn’t degas all of its volatiles very early but keeps some of its volatiles around to more recent geological times.
Mercury has a large iron core but it is the smallest planet in the solar system. However, the data shows that Mercury unlikely become large in the history.

lucyzhou

啊啊 参加了第一天阅读小分队就发现自己的差距啊 看得慢生词多不说 总结的时候完全词穷啊

simonleo

Speaker
Saltine-sized satellites are sent to the space and in the future, it is possible that every common person can own his or her own satellite.

Time 2 4:12
The research about the shrimp show some features of the shrimp and the biggest problem with which the shrimp face. After die the camouflage of the shrimp breaks down.

Time 3 3:42
Wu did research on the spiders and he found that the spiders used both natural materials and ones made by people to attached their webs and webs attached to human-made materials don't vibrate as much as did those anchored to natural materials.

Time 4 4:09
The research on fungi show that there are battles between fungi. Different fungi have different characteristic of behavior. The research showed that climate change can affect the outcome of the battle. But the research is limited.

Time 5 3:01
Quarks never exist on their own and often cluster with other particles in threes or in pairs. But in 2003, X was found that doesn't fit in either category and then other odd particles are found such as Z. A competing team disputed the particle’s existence in 2009.

Time 6 1:33
Z is demonstrated do exist. It is single particle made up of four quarks. The next steps of the research is to figure out the internal composition of Z and its relatives, these particles may have played a role in the very early universe.

Obstacle 6:49
Mercury was surprised found to have explosive volcanism and held on to its volatiles over a much longer period, that is, the explosions dinn't happen all at the same time.
Brief introduction of the approach to get an approximate age of the crater, and then to get the age of the pyroclastic deposit inside M. And craters dated to between 3.5 and 1 billion years old not just around 4.5 billion years ago.
M wasn't once larger.

子芸儿chu

不懂！！
1\00:03:44.79 shrimp is transparent but researchers found that there is something under their uncisible mucscle is.at first it may be unvisible ,but then it can be seen. they are fun to watch in the lab because we can see the little ball food they eat,and then dispear when they are hungery.scattering is a bigger matter of shrimp than no pigment.
2\00:03:33.17 there are rearchers first looking at how human activities influence spiders behavior.and then they found that spiders's wet doesn't vibrate as much as the wet attaching to natureal materials when attaching to human-made, like concrete,tables, books.
3\00:03:35.17
fugal indivifuals contend like a battle.
4\00:02:12.74
researchers found that four-quark states exist while it has been long time knowned that quarks exist only with two- and three- quark matter.
5\00:02:31.49
a series of the experiment confirmed the above outcomes.

NativeStudy菌

疏离无罪 发表于 2014-4-14 20:57
沙发~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear Suli~
Glad to see you in the first seat. And I know you can keep your message from being deleted. So nice to see you again and have a good day!

NativeStudy菌

云游 发表于 2014-4-14 21:58
占住！！！

Dear Yunyou~
Long time no see! And I hope you remember the front page rule. So don't forget to write down your memorization of the passage within 3 days.
Wish you a good day!

NativeStudy菌

ieveline 发表于 2014-4-14 22:12
貌似还有一环的可能
今天好早呀！
谢谢楼主！

Hey! Ieveline.
Nice to meet you! you have to finish reading the passage in 3 days since you've taken the front page seat. otherwise, your message will be deleted.
Have a nice day!

疏离无罪

主页菌 发表于 2014-4-15 14:29
Dear Suli~
Glad to see you in the first seat. And I know you can keep your message from being dele ...

Dear Junjun
I have finished my homework now.It's nice to receive your message again.It seems that there is no regularity about when you will appear.Maybe random?At last,I think you have a spelling mistake on my name.
Have a nice day!

huwanyue123

Day20
Speaker
Speed
Time2
3’22[449words]
Shrimp’s body is transparent but it does not mean there is nothing in its body. From the transparent construction we can see the food digestion through a experiment as well as the egg generation of female.
Time3
2’27[369words]
Wu started a research to study how human activities influence animal’s behaviors. He found that the spider’s net-and-prey activities difference in his net structure between natural materials and human-made constructions such as plastic.
Time4
3’54[413words]
Fungi fight with each other for territory. Their behavior can be influenced by different conditions like weather.
Time5
1’53[251words]
It’s believed that Quarks never exist alone and it has a construction with 3 other particles. Controversial examples have been found in later years.
Time6
2’42[314words]

Obstacle
5’54[886words]
the mercury was once believed to have no volcanoes because it’s different from earth that have matters of low boiling points.
The scientist did some research to find the truth.
The finding of the research led to speculation the perhaps Mercury was once much larger