2011年6月英語四級聽力復合式聽寫真題(新東方版)
?Contrary?to?the?old?warning?that?time?waits?for?no?one,?time?slows?down?when?you?are?on?the?move.?It?also?slows?down?more?as?you?move?faster,?which?means?astronauts?some?day?may?survive?so?long?in?space?that?they?would?return?to?an?Earth?of?the?distant?future.?If?you?could?move?at?the?speed?of?light,?your?time?would?stand?still,?if?you?could?move?faster?than?light,?your?time?would?move?backward.?
Although?no?form?of?matter?yet?discovered,?moves?as?fast?as?or?faster?than?light,?scientific?experiments?has?already?confirmed?that?accelerated?motion?causes?a?traveler’s?time?to?be?stretched.?Albert?Einstein?predicted?this?in?1905,?when?he?introduced?the?concept?of?relative?time?as?part?of?his?Special?Theory?of?Relativity.?A?search?is?now?under?way?to?confirm?the?suspected?existence?of?particles?of?matter?that?move?at?a?speed?greater?than?light.?And?therefore,?might?serve?as?our?passports?to?the?past.?An?obsession?with?time--saving,?gaming,?wasting,?losing?and?mastering?it--?seems?to?have?been?a?part?of?humanity?for?as?long?as?human?have?existed.?Humanity?also?has?been?obsessed?with?trying?to?capture?the?meaning?of?time.?Einstein?used?a?definition?of?time?for?experimental?purposes,?as?that?which?is?measured?by?a?clock.?Thus?time?and?time’s?relativity?are?measurable?by?any?hour?glass,?alarm?clock,?or?atomic?clock?that?can?measure?a?billionth?of?a?second.
