英语专业四级听写答案(8)

英语专业四级听写练习答案

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5. downhill 往下

Crisis

Life is a contest! Who will win? A bluebird and sparrow both compete for space to build their nests. A fast-growing maple tree and slower-growing dogwood compete for the sunlight they both need. Oil competes with coal and nuclear power as an energy source for electric power plants!

There is a problem. There is a limited amount of space for birds, sunlight for trees, and energy for people! If we do not cut back on our uses of some of our resources, someday they will be gone!

How can we use energy today and know we will have enough to go around in the future? We can choose alternate, or replacement, energy resources. It takes the earth millions of create coal, oil, and gas. They are nonrenewable resources.

Solar energy, wind energy and water energy are renewable resources. It the earth millions of years to create coal, oil, and gas. They are nonrenewable resources.

Useful words and expressions:

1. bluebird 蓝知更鸟

2. sparrow 麻雀

3. dogwood 山茱萸

4. power plant 发电厂，发电站

5. alternate 替换物

6. nonrenewable resources 不可再生资源

7. conserve 保存，保藏

heard “the news”Shortly before a radio dispatch came into Washington from Honolulu, Hawaii. “” Japanese planes had begun an attack on the largest American in the Pacific. They first destroyed planes on the ground. Then they sunk or badly damaged. Nearly 150 planes had been destroyed. More than 2,400 Americans had been killed and more than 1,200 wounded.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. dispatch 派遣，急件

2. air raid 空袭

3. drill 军事训练，操练

4. Pearl Harbor 珍珠港

Great Depression in the U.S.

In 1929, the bills started to come in. American industry had produced too many goods.