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請大家只通過聽，寫出文本，答案下期公布。比較長的視頻建議只聽寫一分鐘左右，其他的部分泛聽。但堅持最重要哦！
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上期聽寫文本
Jan 4 2021
On an auspicious day in November of 1986, 5 Australian miners climbed Lunatic Hill— so named for the mental state anyone would be in to dig there. While their competitors searched for opals at a depth of 2 to 5 meters, the Lunatic Hill Syndicate bored 20 meters into the earth. And for their audacity, the earth rewarded them with a fist-sized, record breaking opal. They named it the Halley’s Comet opal, after the much larger rocky, icy body flying by the earth at that time.
The Halley’s Comet opal is a marvel, but its uniqueness is, paradoxically, the most usual thing about it. While diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and other precious stones are often indistinguishably similar, no two opals look the same, thanks to a characteristic called "play of color." This shimmering, dazzling, dancing display of light comes about from a confluence of chemistry, geology, and optics that define opals from their earliest moments, deep underground.
It’s there that an opal begins its life as something surprisingly abundant: water. Trickling down through gaps in soil and rock, water flows through sandstone, limestone, and basalt, picking up a microscopic compound called silicon dioxide. This silica-enriched water enters the voids inside pieces of volcanic rock, prehistoric river beds, wood and even the bones of ancient creatures. Gradually, the water starts to evaporate, and the silica-solution begins forming a gel, within which millions of silica spheres form layer by layer as a series of concentric shells. The gel ultimately hardens into a glass-like material, and the spheres settle into a lattice structure. The vast majority of the time, this structure is haphazard, resulting in common, or potch, opals with unremarkable exteriors. The tiny, mesmerizing percentage we call precious opals have regions where silica beads of uniform size form orderly arrays.
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近乎免費的聽寫群介紹：
如果你很有種，想特別快速的把英文學好，甚至還不想花錢。那就別猶豫，入群再說。
1.這個群裡有啥？
365天，每天1塊錢。我每天第一時間提供原版高清視頻和我的聽寫文本+翻譯。大家可以互相交流討論聽寫中語音的難點、表達、翻譯，並分享自己的學習筆記。
2.哪天開始？
隨到隨學，365天的計算精確到天，這是我們的做事方式！
3.為啥說是近乎免費？
只要你跟著我的進度完成一天的聽寫，當天的一塊錢就退給你。每月結算一次。你憑在我微博帖子裡的轉評贊記錄，或者微信朋友圈的轉發打卡記錄，告訴我該退你多少錢就好了。
4.怎麼叫完成聽寫？
你說你完成聽寫了就算完成了，即使你只寫了一個詞你盡力了，也叫完成聽寫了。
5.這個聽寫群很難啊，不適合我吧？
做困難的事才能讓你進步，一分鐘的材料，再難又能怎麼樣？對自己不夠狠的人不要來。
6.報名方法
加村長助理微信:professor--ma或掃下方二維碼，直接轉帳就可以了。
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