初三英语听力训练材料

初三英语听力：南极物种大发现

　　Researchers have made some interesting discoveries near Antarctica. A teamof scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg havepublished the first comprehensiveinventory of sea-and-land animals, near the tipof the Antarctic Peninsula in and around the South Orkney Islands.

　　The inventory, published in the Journal of Biogeography, concluded thereare more than 1200 known marine- and- land species in the area. Scientists claimthis is more species than are found in the Galapagos Islands, contradicting thelong-held notion that waters around the poles have less biodiversity than thosein more tropical and temperate climates.

　　The documented species include five that are new to science. The team spent7 weeks aboard the RRS James Clark Ross in 2006, trawling and diving in the icywaters, where they say they observed more than 800 species living on theseabed.

　　The scientists claim the islands have little evidence of invasive species.And that the biodiversity has remained nearly unchanged in the 100 years theislands have been studied. But the temperature of the ocean around Antarctica aswell as the atmospheric temperature on the Antarctic Peninsula has continued toincrease, making it one of the most rapidly warming areas on the planet.

　　The research was done in conjunction with the Census of Marine Life, aten-year international study which began in 2000 that aims to access and explainthe diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine organisms in the world'soceans.

初三英语听力：Companionship of Books

　　A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the companyhe keeps; for there is a companionship of books as well as men; and one shouldalways live in the best company，whether it be of books or of men.

　　通常看一个人读些什么书就可知道他的为人，就像看他同什么人交往就可知道他的为人一样，因为有人以人为伴，也有人以书为伴,无论是书友还是朋友，我们都应该以的为伴。

　　A good book may be among the best friends. It is the same today that italways was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful ofcompanions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress.It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us inyouth, and comforting and consoling us in age.

　　好书就像是你的朋友。它始终不渝，过去如此，现在 如此，将来也永远不变。它是最有耐心，最令人愉悦的伴侣。在我们穷困潦倒，临危遭难时，它也不会抛弃我们，对我们总是一 如既往地亲切。在我们年轻时，好书陶冶我们的性情，增长我们的知识;到我们年老时，它又给我们以慰藉和勉励。

　　Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love theyhave for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by theadmiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me,love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:“Love me,love my book.” The bookis truer and higher bond of union. Men can think, feel and sympathize with eachother through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he inthem.

　　人们常常因为喜欢同一本书而结为知已，就像有时两个人因为敬慕同一个人而成为朋友一样。有句谚语说道：“爱屋及屋”,，其实“爱我及书”这句话蕴涵更多的哲理。书是更为真诚而高尚的情谊纽带。人们可以通过共同喜爱的作家沟通思想，交流感情,彼此息息相通，并与自己喜欢的作家思想相通，情感相融。

　　A good book is often the best urn of a life enshrining the best that lifecould think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but theworld of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, thegolden thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companionsand comforts.

　　好书如最精美的宝器，珍藏着人生的思想的精华，因为人生的境界主要就在于其思想的境界。因此，的书是金玉良言和崇高思想的宝库，这些良言和思想若铭记于心并多加珍视,就会成为我们忠实的伴侣和慰藉。