本文選自雅思聽力Section 3，難度一般

Summary:本文是研究性的對話，設(shè)計的話題是利用自動機(jī)械浮體研究海洋。海洋研究對氣象學(xué)、農(nóng)業(yè)、漁業(yè)以及人類生活的各個方面都有重大的影響。海洋和海洋動物研究也是雅思考試中出現(xiàn)頻率較高的話題

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Thanks to all of you for coming along today to hear about how the robotic float project is helping with ocean research. Well, first of all we'll look at what a robotic float does and its use. So let's start with the device itself. It looks a bit like a cigar and it's about one and a half metres long. More importantly it's full of equipment that's designed to collect data. So, it can help us in building up a profile of different factors which work together within the world's oceans. Sounds like a big project, isn't it too big for one country to undertake? That's quite true but this project is a really good example of international cooperation. Over the last five years scientists from 13 countries have been taking part in the project and launching floats in their area of ocean control. And next year this number will rise to 14 when Indonesia joins the project. That's impressive. But let's move onto how floats work.