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1、老托福听力PartC原文精选5篇 为了让大家更好的准备托福考试,给大家整理老托福听力PartC原文,下面就和大家分享,来欣赏一下吧。老托福听力PartC原文1A lot of people in the United States are coffee drinkers.在美国,很多人都是喝咖啡的人Over the last few years, a trend has been developing to introduce premium, specially blended coffees, known as gourmet coffees into the American marke
2、t.在过去的几年里,已经发展出一种趋势,引进高价的,特殊调制的咖啡,被称作“美味咖啡”,到美国的市场。Boston seems to have been the birthplace of this trend.Boston似乎是这一趋势的诞生地In fact, major gourmet coffee merchants from other cities like Seattle and San Francisco came to Boston, where today theyre engaged in a kind of coffee war with Bostons merchant
3、s.事实上,大多数来自其他的城市诸如Seattle 和 San Francisco的美味咖啡商人们来到了Boston,今天他们在这里参与进了同Boston的商人们的某种“咖啡战争”They are all competing for a significant share of the gourmet coffee market.他们都在为美味咖啡的一个重要市场份额竞争Surprisingly, the competition among these leading gourmet coffee businesses will not hurt any of them.令人惊讶的是,在这些主要
4、的美味咖啡生意之间的竞争,将不会伤害他们中的任何人。Experts predict that the gourmet coffee market in the United States is growing and will continue to grow, to the point that gourmet coffee will soon capture half of what is now a 1.5-million-dollar market and will be an 8-million-dollar market by 1999.专家们预测美味咖啡的市场在美国正在增长并将持
5、续增长,达到这种程度:美味咖啡将很快夺得现在150万美元的市场份额的一半,并将在1999年达到800万美金的市场份额Studies have shown that coffee drinkers who convert to gourmet coffee seldom go back to the regular brands found in supermarkets.研究已经表明,喝咖啡的人一转喝美味咖啡,很少回到常规的,在超市中找到的品牌As a result, these brands will be the real losers in the gourmet coffee comp
6、etition.结果,这些品牌将在美味咖啡竞争中成为真正的输家老托福听力PartC原文2You may remember that a few weeks ago we discussed the question of what photography is.你们可能还记得几周前我们讨论过什么是摄影的问题。Is it art, or is it a method of reproducing images? Do photographs belong in museums or just in our homes?它是艺术,或者它是一个复制影响的方法?Today I want to talk
7、 about a person who tried to make his professional life an answer to such questions.今天我想谈谈关于一个试图使他的职业生涯成为这类问题的答案的人。Alfred Stieglitz went from the United States to Germany to study engineering.Alfred Stieglitz从美国除非去德国学习工程学While he was there, he became interested in photography and began to experiment
8、 with his camera.当他在那里的时候,他对摄影产生了兴趣,并开始用他的相机去实验。He took pictures under conditions that most photographers considered too difficult.他在大多数摄影师认为过于困难的条件下拍照片。He took them at night, in the rain, and of people and objects reflected in windows.他在夜晚,在雨中,以及在人和物体在窗户上的反射上取景(拍照片)。When he returned to the United S
9、tates he continued these revolutionary efforts.当他回到美国时,他延续了这些革命性的努力。Stieglitz was the first person to photograph skyscrapers, clouds, and views from an airplane.Stieglitz是为摩天大楼,云朵,以及飞机上的景观拍照的第一人What Stieglitz was trying to do in these photographs was what he tried to do throughout his life: make pho
10、tography an art.Stieglitz在这些照片上所努力去做的事儿,是他努力去做了一辈子的事儿:使摄影成为一门艺术。He felt that photography could be just as good a form of self-expression as painting or drawing.他觉得摄影能够成为一种自我表达形式,就像油画或者绘画一样。For Stieglitz, his camera was his brush.对Stieglitz来说,他的相机就是他的画笔。While many photographers of the late 1800s and
11、early 1900s thought of their work as a reproduction of identical images, Stieglitz saw his as a creative art form.当很多十九世纪晚期和二十世纪早期的摄影师认为他们的工作就是相同的影像复制,Stieglitz把他的(工作)看做一种创造性的艺术的形式He understood the power of the camera to capture the moment.他了解相机在捕捉瞬间的上的能力In fact, he never retouched his prints or mad
12、e copies of them.事实上,他从未修整过他的图片或者制造它们的副本。If he were in this classroom today, Im sure hed say, Well, painters dont normally make extra copies of their paintings, do they?如果今天他在这个教室中,我相信他会说:“好吧,画家们通常不会给他们的画制造额外的副本,对吗?”老托福听力PartC原文3So, uh . . . as Jim said, James Polk was the eleventh President, and .
13、. . uh . . . well, my reports about the next PresidentZachary Taylor. Taylor was elected in 1849.那么,呃就像Jim所说,James Polk曾经是第十一任总统,并且呃好,我的报告是关于下任总统- Zachary Taylor。Taylor于1849年当选。Its surprising because . . . well, he was the first President that didnt have any previous political experience.令人惊讶的是因为好吧,
14、他是第一个在之前没有任何政治经验的总统。The main reason he was chosen as a candidate was because he was a war hero.他被选作候选人的主要原因是他曾是一个战争英雄。In the army, his men called him Old Rough and Ready. I guess because of his . . . rough edges.在军队中,他的手下叫他“大老粗”。我猜是因为他的 “棱角”He was kind of blunt and he didnt really look like a milita
15、ry hero.他有些直率,而且他真的看起来不像一个战斗英雄。He liked to do things like wear civilian clothes instead of a uniform, even in battle.他喜欢做的事情,比如穿便服而不是制服,即使是在战斗中。老托福听力PartC原文4I want to welcome each and every balloon enthusiast to Philadelphia.我想要欢迎每一位气球爱好者来到PhiladelphiaThank you for coming here this morning to commem
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