考研听力基本功4 Passage5

John Shilling is a twenty-year-old student at Cornell College in Mount¹ Vernon,Iow
[00:05.96]It is a small school very different from Cornell University in New York State which is huge and famou
[00:14.18]John could have gone to any college of his choic
[00:17.08]but he chose this school because of its small size and its excellent program in his major field-physic
[00:25.03]He likes Cornell as well as he expected t
[00:28.19]There are just three students in his physice clas
[00:31.32]and the professor often invites the three to his home for dinne
[00:36.00]While maintaining an "A" average in his studies,John finds time to play on the football and tennis tea
[00:43.18]and he has dates with his girl friend,Linda Spie
[00:47.31]They study together in the library or go for walks in the nearby meado
[00:52.24]Linda,who is majoring in elementary educatio
[00:55.93]is one of the many college students who give free lessons to children of poor families in a city near Cornel
[01:04.29]John,like nearly half his classmate,has a scholarship that pays part of his college expens
[01:11.00]He works as a laboratory assistant to help pay other bill
[01:14.92]and during the summer he earns extra money at a factory in his hometown.

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n.山峰，乘用马，框，衬纸；vi.增长，骑上（马）；vt.提升，爬上，装备

参考例句：

• Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
• She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。