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托福听力背景材料之火星上的水　　Long before the Space Age, humans looking at Mars thought they saw evidence for the presence of water, in the form of giant canals built by some very advanced, very thirsty civilization. Those 19th-century notions proved to be the products of poor telescopes and wishful thinking: the canals were an optical illusion. But 20th and 21st century observers have definitely found water on Mars.?　　早在太空时代，人们在火星上看到有水存在的证据，通过他们的先进的技术以大坝的形式展现，非常饥渴的文明形式。这些十九世纪的观念证明了这些都是贫穷的望眼镜的产品和如意算盘：运河是一种光学的错觉。但是在20和21世纪真的发现在火星上有水的存在。?　　Telescopes spied water in ice caps at the Red Planet’s poles, as well