英语专业四级 专项突破（听写）Passage 6

[00:08.13]Passage 6
[00:09.89]PART Ⅰ DICTATION
[00:12.89]Listen to the following passage. 
[00:15.37]Altogether the passage 
[00:17.08]will be read to you four times. 
[00:20.11]During the first reading, 
[00:21.98]which will be done at normal speed, 
[00:24.91]listen and try to understand the meaning. 
[00:28.30]For the second and third readings, 
[00:30.68]the passage, except the first sentence, 
[00:33.87]will be read sentence by sentence, 
[00:36.61]or phrase by phrase, 
[00:38.59]with intervals of fifteen seconds. 
[00:42.30]The last reading will be done at normal speed again 
[00:46.36]and during this time you should check your work. 
[00:50.10]You will then be given ONE minute 
[00:52.84]to check through your work once more.
[00:55.87]Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE. 
[00:58.53]The first sentence of the passage 
[01:00.79]is already provided.
[01:03.01]Now, listen to the passage.
[01:05.77]Save the Polar Bears
[01:08.00]Polar bears live on the ice. 
[01:09.73]It is where they hunt, 
[01:11.11]mate and raise their young. / 
[01:12.95]But a team of researchers has found that / 
[01:15.57]the animals' ice habitat is warming up, 
[01:18.21]and shrinking / 
[01:19.23]faster than experts predicted it would. / 
[01:21.79]The researchers say this change 
[01:23.82]in the animals' home territory 
[01:25.85]is threatening their survival. / 
[01:27.99]Polar bears face a difficult future 
[01:30.45]unless countries reduce air pollution.
[01:34.59]The second and third readings.
[01:36.68]You should begin writing now.
[01:39.68]It is where they hunt, 
[01:40.92]mate and raise their young. / 
[01:58.04]It is where they hunt, 
[01:59.24]mate and raise their young. / 
[02:16.24]But a team of researchers has found that / 
[02:33.97]But a team of researchers has found that / 
[02:51.70]the animals' ice habitat is warming up, 
[02:54.20]and shrinking / 
[03:10.50]the animals' ice habitat is warming up, 
[03:12.93]and shrinking / 
[03:29.43]faster than experts predicted it would. / 
[03:47.25]faster than experts predicted it would. / 
[04:05.05]The researchers say this change 
[04:06.90]in the animals' home territory 
[04:08.89]is threatening their survival. / 
[04:26.13]The researchers say this change 
[04:27.92]in the animals' home territory 
[04:29.93]is threatening their survival. / 
[04:47.50]Polar bears face a difficult future 
[04:49.95]unless countries reduce air pollution.
[05:08.04]Polar bears face a difficult future 
[05:10.26]unless countries reduce air pollution.
[05:28.72]The last reading.
[05:30.45]Save the Polar Bears
[05:32.48]Polar bears live on the ice. 
[05:34.45]It is where they hunt, 
[05:35.81]mate and raise their young. / 
[05:37.73]But a team of researchers has found that / 
[05:40.19]the animals' ice habitat is warming up, 
[05:42.93]and shrinking / 
[05:43.94]faster than experts predicted it would. / 
[05:46.63]The researchers say this change 
[05:48.43]in the animals' home territory 
[05:50.42]is threatening their survival. / 
[05:52.68]Polar bears face a difficult future 
[05:55.01]unless countries reduce air pollution.
[05:58.47]Now you have one minutes to check through your work.
[07:04.82]This is the end of PART I DICTATION.