【原】Student News 20160822 -- dino-scovery

听录音，完成下列选择题。答案在文章底部。

1. Which of the following is NOT covered in today's news?

A. Violence and political turmoil impact Turkey

暴力和政治动荡对土耳其的影响

B. Olympic venues after the events wrap up

奥运会闭幕后这些奥运场馆将何去何从

C.  The Zika virus spreads in Miami

寨卡病毒在迈阿密肆虐

D. ISIS Sends Army to Turkey

伊斯兰国派遣军队进入土耳其

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BEFORE WE GO双关语、俏皮话解析

Finally, today, open up and say "ahh" and glad you`re not a dentist and this thing doesn`t need a check-up. Paleontologists say it`s a skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a very well-preserved skull. It was found in a part of Montana that`s famous for dinosaur bones. So far, researchers say they`ve been able to dig up about a fifth of this T-Rex. It was discovered last year by two museum volunteers who saw the skeleton`s vertebrae sticking out of a hillside.

So, you can see why there`s a skele-ton of interest in it. They probably thought, leaping lizards, this could greatly facilitate deeper scholarship! It`s perfectly paleontological that with this dino-scovery, a lot of folks will dig it.

Whether or not you dig those puns, we`ll have more news for you tomorrow, right here for CNN STUDENT NEWS.

今天的BEFORE WE GO说的是去年美国蒙大拿州两位图书馆志愿者看到山上有恐龙脊柱化石的脊椎骨从山腰上突出来，就去找了考古队一起挖，结果挖出了暴龙（T-Rex）的头骨。至今只挖出了五分之一，对今后的深度研究会有帮助。

今天的几个点：

1、there’s a ton of interest in it，ton被单独强调了，skeleton的最后三个字母就是这个词；

2、dino-scovery，本来是discovery，现在加上dino的开头，“发现恐龙”，这个双关语还是不错的。

3、dig deep scholarship：前两个词不必多说了，“深挖”嘛，deep scholarship，本来是指“高深的学术”，这里是因为恐龙总是从深处挖出来的，也指“恐龙的学术研究”。另外，dig puns，挖得出双关语/俏皮话，也和dig有关。

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选择题答案：D