2024年3月21日发(作者：巢香菱)

托福听力tpo50 lecture1、2、3、4 原文+题目+答案+译文

Lecture1 ................................................................................................................ 1

原文 ................................................................................................................ 1

题目 ................................................................................................................ 4

答案 ................................................................................................................ 6

译文 ................................................................................................................ 6

Lecture2 ................................................................................................................ 8

原文 ................................................................................................................ 8

题目 .............................................................................................................. 10

答案 .............................................................................................................. 12

译文 .............................................................................................................. 12

Lecture3 .............................................................................................................. 14

原文 .............................................................................................................. 14

题目 .............................................................................................................. 16

答案 .............................................................................................................. 18

译文 .............................................................................................................. 18

Lecture4 .............................................................................................................. 20

原文 .............................................................................................................. 20

题目 .............................................................................................................. 22

答案 .............................................................................................................. 24

译文 .............................................................................................................. 24

Lecture1

原文

NARRATOR: Listen to part of a lecture in an ancient history class.

FEMALE PROFESSOR: OK, last time we were discussing trade and commerce during

the Bronze Age … And I said a little over 3,000 years ago there was quite a lively trade

among the countries along the Mediterranean Sea—people were making objects out

of bronze, and they were using bronze tools to make other goods, and they

developed trade networks to trade these goods with other countries around the

Mediterranean … One of the things they traded was glass …

And recently there was an archeological excavation in Egypt—on the Nile River,

around where it enters the Mediterranean Sea—where they discovered an ancient

glass factory. Robert?

MALE STUDENT: I thought our textbook said that the Egyptians imported their glass

from other countries.

FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, until now that's what the evidence seemed to suggest. I

mean, we had some evidence that suggested that the Egyptians were making glass

objects, uh, but not glass.

MALE STUDENT: OK, am-am I missing something? They're making glass, but they're

not making glass.

FEMALE PROFESSOR: I said they were making glass objects, right? You see, it was

previously thought that they weren't actually making the raw glass itself, that they

were importing unfinished glass from Mesopotamia—um, which today is a region

consisting of Iraq, and parts of Syria, Turkey, and Iran—and simply reworking it. Most

archeologists believed that the glass factories were in Mesopotamia because that's

where the oldest known glass remains come from. You see, there were two stages of

glassmaking: the primary production stage, where they made disks of raw glass… Uh,

an- and then there was the secondary stage, where they melted the raw glass, the

glass disks, and created decorative objects or from this new Egyptian

site we've learned that the primary production stage had several steps. First, they

took quartz—a colorless, transparent mineral—and crushed it. Then they took that

crushed quartz and mixed it with plant ash; uh, “plant ash” is just what it sounds

2024年3月21日发(作者：巢香菱)

托福听力tpo50 lecture1、2、3、4 原文+题目+答案+译文

Lecture1 ................................................................................................................ 1

原文 ................................................................................................................ 1

题目 ................................................................................................................ 4

答案 ................................................................................................................ 6

译文 ................................................................................................................ 6

Lecture2 ................................................................................................................ 8

原文 ................................................................................................................ 8

题目 .............................................................................................................. 10

答案 .............................................................................................................. 12

译文 .............................................................................................................. 12

Lecture3 .............................................................................................................. 14

原文 .............................................................................................................. 14

题目 .............................................................................................................. 16

答案 .............................................................................................................. 18

译文 .............................................................................................................. 18

Lecture4 .............................................................................................................. 20

原文 .............................................................................................................. 20

题目 .............................................................................................................. 22

答案 .............................................................................................................. 24

译文 .............................................................................................................. 24

Lecture1

原文

NARRATOR: Listen to part of a lecture in an ancient history class.

FEMALE PROFESSOR: OK, last time we were discussing trade and commerce during

the Bronze Age … And I said a little over 3,000 years ago there was quite a lively trade

among the countries along the Mediterranean Sea—people were making objects out

of bronze, and they were using bronze tools to make other goods, and they

developed trade networks to trade these goods with other countries around the

Mediterranean … One of the things they traded was glass …

And recently there was an archeological excavation in Egypt—on the Nile River,

around where it enters the Mediterranean Sea—where they discovered an ancient

glass factory. Robert?

MALE STUDENT: I thought our textbook said that the Egyptians imported their glass

from other countries.

FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, until now that's what the evidence seemed to suggest. I

mean, we had some evidence that suggested that the Egyptians were making glass

objects, uh, but not glass.

MALE STUDENT: OK, am-am I missing something? They're making glass, but they're

not making glass.

FEMALE PROFESSOR: I said they were making glass objects, right? You see, it was

previously thought that they weren't actually making the raw glass itself, that they

were importing unfinished glass from Mesopotamia—um, which today is a region

consisting of Iraq, and parts of Syria, Turkey, and Iran—and simply reworking it. Most

archeologists believed that the glass factories were in Mesopotamia because that's

where the oldest known glass remains come from. You see, there were two stages of

glassmaking: the primary production stage, where they made disks of raw glass… Uh,

an- and then there was the secondary stage, where they melted the raw glass, the

glass disks, and created decorative objects or from this new Egyptian

site we've learned that the primary production stage had several steps. First, they

took quartz—a colorless, transparent mineral—and crushed it. Then they took that

crushed quartz and mixed it with plant ash; uh, “plant ash” is just what it sounds