听力填空

Morning, I’m AmyLee，glad to see you today!本听力材料来自于老托partb，partc，是公认实施有效的听写材料，对于上手托福时间不长的同学非常适合。我曾经一次短时间备考听力提高了7分也归功老托。希望大家和我一样一定要坚持下来噢。相信坚持学习的同学听力上都会有很大的飞跃！
No pain, no gain.我们的安排是这样的，第一遍用听力软件精听材料（建议做单句听写，听写的时候不要偷看我给的挖空题），然后按照我给的挖空题填关键词，回复后即可看到听力原文和文章精解，我将把难点和易错点one by one 分析给大家。

回复填空答案格式如下：1____2____3____...et.al.

Today I want to discuss_______such as coal, oil, and natural gas. The term "fossil fuel" refers to the_____,______of plants and animals in_______rock. You see, living plants trap energy from the sun by the process of_______, and they store the energy in their chemical compounds. Most of that energy is released when the plant dies and______.However, sometimes organic matter is buried before it decays completely. Inthis way some of the solar energy becomes trapped in rocks, hence the name fossil fuel. Although the amount of organic matter trapped in any one growingseason is small, the accumulated remains from millions of years are_______.Because the accumulation rate is so slow, millions of times slower than therate at which we now dig up this organic matter and burn it for energy, we mustconsider fossil fuels as_______resources. Tomorrow we'll be discussing_______to fossil fuels that can be renewed.

答案原文

【填空答案】

1.fossilfuel: n.fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in theearth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content化石燃料

2.trapped: adj. forced to turn and face attackers捕集的，捕获的

3.remains: n. any object that is left unused or still extant［C］残留

4.sedimentary: adj.resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment沉积的

5.photosynthesis: n. synthesis ofcompounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants)［U］光合作用

6.decay: v. fall intodecay or ruin腐烂

7.considerable: adj. large orrelatively large in number or amount or extent or degree相当多的，相当可观的

8.nonrenewable: adj.that cannot be renewed 不可再生的

9.alternative: n. one of anumber of things from which only one can be chosen二中选一，可供选择的事物

【听力原文】

Today I want to discussfossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
The term "fossil fuel" refers to the trapped remains of plants and animals in sedimentary rock. You see, living plants trap energy from the sun by the process of photosynthesis, and they store the energy in their chemical compounds. Most of that energy is released when the plant dies and decays.However, sometimes organic matter is buried before it decays completely. In this way some of the solar energy becomes trapped in rocks, hence the name“fossil fuel”.
Although the amount of organic matter trapped in any one growing season issmall, the accumulated remains from millions of years are considerable. Becausethe accumulation rate is so slow, millions of times slower than the rate at which we now dig up this organic matter and burn it for energy, we must consider fossil fuels as nonrenewable resources.

Tomorrow we'll be discussing alternatives to fossil fuels that can be renewed.

听力精解

【听力精解】

今天的听力不是很难，填空基本都是托福考试中的常用词，那么现在做过题之后，让我们好好看一下该片材料里面的看点。
1、首先第一句Today I want todiscuss fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. 很容易在第一遍就听得很明确，这个是本文的中心思想，也就是很多下面的第一题的直接答案。
2、sedimentary rock，该句解释了化石燃料的形成过程，最后可能遇到一个没见过的陌生词汇，也就是sedimentary rock，其实该短语是沉积岩的意思，纵然我们不知道sedimentary的意思，但是听到rock, 估计也能猜出个八九不离十吧。
3、Photosynthesis，这个词可能又是一个拦路虎，咋一听可能与photo有关，但其实确实没什么关系，这个就是众所周知的光合作用。chemical compounds，意思是化学化合物。
4、Although the amount oforganic matter trapped in any one growing season is small,这一句上有些同学可能又要出现问题了，因为这一句上有一个小小的复杂结构---过去分词做后置定语。这句话的主要结构是the amount of organic matter is small, 而matter被trap 在any one growing season.
5、Considerable,这个词在许多材料里会经常出现。Considerable, 如果大家并不知道这个词的意思，往往将它和consider联系起来，但实际上这个词的意思是“相当大的，相当多的”。
6、最后我们来分析一个长句子：Because theaccumulation rate is so slow, millions of times slower than the rate at whichwe now dig up this organic matter and burn it for energy, we must considerfossil fuels as nonrenewable resources. 其实第二个分句用了一个定语从句，at which 作为引导词，which代指是上文出现的rate。Dig up最常见是“采掘：的意思，引申义就是“利用，使用”。

【参考译文】

今天我想谈谈化石燃料，比如煤、石油和天然气。
化石燃料”指的是沉积岩中植物和动物的残留物。活着的植物通过光合作用从太阳中获得能量，并将这些能量储存在化合物中。当植物死去的时候，大部分的能量都散失了。但是在有些情况下，有机体在完全腐烂之前就被掩埋了。这样，一些太阳能被阻隔在岩石当中，因此被称为“化石燃料”。
尽管每个生长季节里被埋起来的有机体很少，但是经过千百万年的累积，这些残存物的量还是十分惊人的。比起我们现在开采能源的速度，化石燃料的积累速度异常缓慢，所以我们必须将其认定为不可再生能源。
明天我们将探讨另一种代用能源——可再生能源。

好了，今天的文章分析完了，经过这四天的坚持，你是不是觉得自己有一些小小的进步了呢，加油，坚持就是胜利！
祝大家每天进步一点点！

AmyLee