2008年7月8日
  P- v6 G  ]5 `% h9 r4 F4 ]历史 第一篇(舞蹈)
- G* j& F* a! y# c* N2 p9 a3 H  Z; `Good evening, my name is Pam Jones(名字写成PJ), and on behalf(on the half of ) of the Modern Dance club, I'd like to welcome you to tonight's program. The club is pleased to present the TV version of the Catherine Wheel(轮转烟火，烟花,这里应该指一种舞蹈）, Twyla Tharp's rock ballet. This video version of the ballet has been even more successful with audiences than the original theater production---it includes some animation(活泼，生气), slow motion, and stop-action freezes that really help the audiences understand the dance.
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( k' D$ S2 [$ j6 V' yThe title of the piece refers to Saint Catherine, who died on a(the) wheel in 307 A.D. Nowadays, a Catherine wheel is also a kind of firework---it looks something like a pinwheel(轮转焰火, 纸风车). Anyway, the dance is certainly full of firework! You'll see how Twyla Tharp explores one family's attempt to confront the violence in modern life. The central symbol of the work is a pineapple(凤梨, 菠萝)...but exactly what it represents has always created a lot of controversy(辩论，争论）. As you watch, see if you can figure it out.
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The music for this piece is full of the rhythmic(有节奏的) energy of rock music. It was composed by David Byrne...of the rock band Talking Heads? And the lead dancer in this version was Sara Rudner(写成SR), who is perfectly suited to Tharp's adventurous choreography(舞蹈术, 舞台舞蹈).
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Following the video, dance teacher Mary Parker(写成MP) will lead a(the) discussion about the symbolism Ms.Tharp used. We hope you can stay for that. So, enjoy tonight's video(vido)...and thank you for your support.

啊  大家都好有激情>< 向着光明的明天前进吧

2008年7月9日; o7 ^  U# P% J" ?: \3 K  n0 q
历史 第二篇（Monticello）
6 k0 f& ~: y3 }3 qBefore starting our tour of Monticello, I'll give you some historical facts that might help you appreciate what you see today even more.- K! R% _& j( r. N9 Q8 N" ?1 R

, L2 N8 ~4 d7 P* _Monticello was the very much loved home of Thomas Jefferson for over fifty years. Jefferson, who was , of course, President, was also a great reader and language enthusiast(热心家，狂热者). He read widely on different subjects, including architecture. He wasn't formally trained in architecture, but as a result of his study and observation of other buildings, he was able to help design and build the house. He chose the(a) site himself, naming the estate(不动产) "Monticello," which means "little mountain" in Italian. In fact, many of the ideas behind the design also came from the(a) Italian architect Andrea Palladio(AP), who lived in the sixteenth century and who had a great influence on the architecture of England.
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/ ^% _0 R2 D! b. n& t% E5 mJefferson, however, ignored one of Palladio'principles---that is, not to build in a high place. Monticello's elevation(海拔) made the transportation of what needed at the(that) house--- for example, food--- especially difficult. But the view from the estate would not be as spectacular(引人入胜的，壮观的) if Jefferson had followed Palladio's advice; there really is no boundary between the house and the nature around it, and so Jefferson was able to look out on his beloved state of Virginia from his wonderful vantage(优势，有力情况) point.3 p* f* B7 H" _/ I

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2008年7月10日
. V$ U# N2 i5 W. ^历史 第三篇(建筑 thatching)
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& s6 |+ b3 B9 @" |" @Welcome to the Four Winds Historical Farm(没听清说什么), where traditions of the past are preserved for visitors like you. Today, our master thatches will begin giving this barn behind me a sturdy(强健的，坚定的) thatched roof able to withstand(stand) heavy winds and last up to a hundred years. How do(did) they do it? Well, in a(the) nutshell, thatching involves covering the beams or rafters(筏运)---the wooden skeleton(骨架) of a roof---with reeds(芦苇) or straw(稻草，麦秆). Our thatches here have harvested their own natural materials for the job---the bundles of water reed you see lying there beside the barn.
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Thatching is certainly uncommon in the United States today. I guess that's why so many of you have come to see this(the) demonstration(demestration). But it wasn't always that way. In the seventeenth century, the colonists here thatched their(the) roofs with reeds and straw, just as they had done in(连读，没听清) England. After a while, though, they began to replace the thatch with wooden shingles because wood was so plentiful. And eventually, other roofing materials like stone, slate(石板),and clay(粘土) titles came into use.
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) o; d% x) g. H: k1 bIt's real shame that most of people today don't realize how strong and long lasting a thatched roof is. In Ireland, where thatching is still practiced, the roofs can survive(拼写错误) winds of up to one hundred ten miles per hour. That's because straw and reeds are so flexible(拼写错误). They bend but don't break in the wind like other materials can. Another advantage is that the roofs keep the house cool in the summer and warm in the winter. And then, of course, there's the roof's longevity--- the average is sixty years, but they can last up to a hundred. With all these reasons to start thatching roofs again, wouldn't it be wonderful to see this disappearing craft return to popularity?
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第一段错的比较多，可能是生词比较多，还有就是前面听一句对一句答案，使得对文章内容有了了解，使得后面的一些生词基本上就能听出来了。

加油哦~

2008年7月11日
6 S& t. H% J% u! b0 g+ @历史 第四篇(coffee)! r8 m" ]6 x; }! c

/ k% p. t: d2 b$ }2 ?0 o7 PA lot of people in the United States are coffee drinkers. Over the last few years, a trend has been developing to introduce premium, specially blended coffees---knows as " gourmet coffees" --- into the American market.
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0 q2 b4 w9 d3 R) mBoston seems to have been the birthplace(best place) of this trend. In fact, major gourmet coffee merchants(商人) from other cities like Seattle and San Francisco came to Boston, where today they're engaged in a kind of " coffee war" with Boston's merchants. They are all competing for a significant share of the gourmet coffee market．" m" G, c  x/ H( C0 J* i* k
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Surprisingly, the competition among these leading gourmet coffee businesses will not hurt any of them．Experts predict that the gourmet coffee will soon capture half of waht is now a 1.5-million-dollar market and will be an 8-million-dollar market by 1999.
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0 M' f- D$ f- c  ]Studies have shown that coffee drinkers who convert to gourmet coffee seldom go back to the regular brands found in supermarkets. As a result, these brands will be the real losers in the gourmet coffee competition.

2008年7月12日
5 e4 L# ?* ?. g9 y2 y5 b- N历史 第五篇(艺术史Photography)0 J* \1 h( J- H- k
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You may remember that a few weeks ago we discussed the question of what photography is. Is it art, or is it a method of reproducing images? Do photographys belong in museums or just in our homes? Today I want to talk about a person who tried(try) to make his professional life an answer to such questions.
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Alfred Stieglitz went from the United States to Germany to study engineering. While he was there, he became interested in photography and began to experiment with his camera. He took pictures under congditions that most photographers considered too difficult---he took them at night, in the rain, and of people and objects reflected in windows. When he returned to the United States he continued these revolutionary efforts. Stieglitz was the first person to phtotgraph skyscrapers, clouds, and views from an airplane.
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What Stieglitz was trying to do in these photographs(photographys) was what he tried to do throughout his life: make photography an art. He felt(thought) that photography could be just as a good a form of self-expression as painting or drawing. For Stieglitz, his camera was his brush. While(for) many photographers of the late 1800's and early 1900's thought of their work as a reproduction of identical images, Stieglitz saw(thought) his as(is) a creative art form. He understood the power of the camera to capture the moment. In fact, he never retouched his prints or made copies of them. If he were in this classroom today, I'm sure he'd say, " Well, painters don't normally make extra copies of their paintings, do they?"

2008年7月13日
; m7 N$ X  j" l# H+ _历史 第六篇(人物)6 Q, s- M) i2 }5 l! z( R7 H( F% x: t
So, as Jim said, James Polk was the eleventh President, and, well, my report's about the next President --- Zachary Taylor(ZT).2 U  A* s4 S6 `

& X! _8 q  G$ z2 z7 `Tayloe was elected in 1849. It's surpringly because, well, he was the first President that didn't have any previous political experiences. The main reason that he was chosen as a candidate was because he was a war hero.- \' ~6 o1 g; N9 z8 ]

6 L4 N$ q5 P7 F- O2 N* D# LIn the army, his men called him "Old Rough and Ready" , I guess because of his " rough edges." He was kind of blunt(钝的，生硬的) and he didn't really look like a military hero. He liked to do things like wear civilian clothes instead of a uniform --- even in battle. And he was so short and plump(胖) he had to be lifted up onto his horse. But he did win a lot of battles and he became more and more  popular. So, the Whig party decided to nominate(推荐，提名) him for the presidency, even though no one knew(时态不对) anything about where he stood on the issues.0 B4 m$ j0 `$ J; F0 g+ _: h( @+ ^( |. g
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I couldn't find much about his accomplishments --- probably because he was only in office about a year and a half before he died. But one thing --- he pushed for the development of the transcontinental(横贯大陆的) railroad because he thought it was important to form a link with the West Coast --- there was a lot of wealth in California and Oregon from commerce and minerals and stuff. Also, he established an agricultural bureau in the Department of the Interior and promoted more government aid to agriculture.$ c, Y8 f: f3 h) ^" \
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Well, that's about all I found. Like I said, he died in office --- in 1850 --- so his Vice President took over, and that's the next report, so, thank you.

2008年7月14日- j( Z6 p" w3 F# X
历史 第七篇(历史事件热气球)6 D, [; e  ~; i" V" z- E3 ]9 g

' n- T  W# _" {& t4 h$ AI want to welcome each and every ballooner enthusiast to Philadelphia. Thank you for coming here this moring to commemorate the first balloon voyage in the United States. On January 9th, 1793, at ten o'clock in the morning, a silk balloon lifted(left) into the skies(sky) above this city, which was, at the time, the capital of the country.
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$ Y8 {$ n& x1 j2 a2 a3 AAccording to the original records of the flight, the voyage lasted forty-six minutes, from its departure in Philadelphia to its landing across the Delaware River in New Jersey. Though our pilots today will try to approximate the original landing site, they're at the mercy of the winds, so who knows where they'll drift off(of) to. Even the balloonist in 1793 experienced(experiernce) some uncertain wheter that day. There were clouds, fog, and mist in various directions.1 W2 m2 a; |% T, M0 ]& r

+ a, @  S, p9 r0 f/ ZOur reenactment(再制定) promises to be nothing less than spectacular. The yellow balloon directly behind me is five stories high. It's inflated with helium, unlike the original, which was filled with hydrogen and, unbeknownst to the pilot, potentially explosive. Gas-filled models are pretty uncommon now because of the extremely high cost, so the eighty other balloons in today's launch are hot air, heated by propane(丙烷) burners. These balloons are from all over the country.

2008年7月15日
, x2 R/ n* _' ?历史 第八篇(邮政)( b. T- ]4 _5 d" z0 G

. x! _% z% ^, nLet's proceed to the main exhibit hall and look at some of the actual vehicles that have played a prominent role in speeding up mail delivery. Consider how long it used to take to send a letter across a relatively short distance(distant). Back in the 1600's(1600's) it took two weeks on horseback to get a letter from Boston to New York, a distance of about 260 miles. Crossing a river was also a challenge. Ferry(摆渡) service was so irregular that a carrier would sometimes wait hours just to catch a ferry. For journeys inland, there was always the stagecoach(公共马车), but the ride was by no means comfortable because it had to be shared with other passengers. The post office was pretty ingenious about some routes. In the nineteenth century, in the Southwestern desert, for instance, camels were brought in to help get the mail through. In Alaska, reindeer were used. This practice was discontinued because of the disagreeable temperament of these animals.. T* y% i  J: c8 B/ V" I
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We'll stop here a minute so that you can enter this replica(复制品) of a railway mail car. It was during the Age of the Iron Horse that delivery really started to speed up(原文里是pick up,不过我听到的好像是speed up,原文中的意思也应该是加速的意思). In fact, the United States transported most bulk mail by train for nearly 100 years. The first airmail didn't start until 1918.
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please take a few moments to look around. I hope you'll enjoy your tour. And as you continue on your own, may I suggest you visit our impressive philatelic collection(集邮). Not only you look at some of the more unusual stamps issues, but there is an interesting exhibit(写成复数了) on how stamps are made.