这个小双休大家过得好吗？呵呵，AmyLee去考试了，回来神清气爽，专心备考托福拉！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oneby one 分析给大家。

回复填空答案格式如下：1____2____3____...et.al.

We've just seen two______large birds that cannot fly: the______and the_______. Over here is an interesting_______from the past. This______animal is not the giant______it appears to be, but an_______. This particular kind of auk is very rare,only 78______are known to exist and most are not preserved as well as this one. The greatauk, as you can see, was a rather large bird, and it couldn't fly either.However, evidence suggests that the auk was an excellent swimmer and diver.Unfortunately, those abilities did not protect it from being easy prey for hungry sailors who years ago sailed the very cold and often icy waters of Greenland,Iceland, and Scotland.In fact, records indicate that the auk was rather tasty and that its eggs.Excuse me . . . that its eggs and feathers were useful as well. Still, it isn'tclear what other factors led to the big bird's______around 1844, the last time anyone reported seeing one. Of course, we believe it's important to take extra______to preserve the remaining great auk skins. After all, these specimens should prove______for future scientific research. Does anyone have any questions before we moveon to our next bird exhibit?

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