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UNIT 7-LISTENING-TAPESCRIPT-BÀI TẬP ĐIỀN TỪ

The document is about a man named Billy Barr who has lived alone in a small house in the snow for over 40 winters, meticulously recording weather and environmental data twice daily. He is considered a 'snow guardian' and has amassed a vast collection of observations that are now used by researchers to study climate trends, showing that winters now bring snow later, lose snow sooner, and have an overall warmer climate.

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UNIT 7-LISTENING-TAPESCRIPT-BÀI TẬP ĐIỀN TỪ

The document is about a man named Billy Barr who has lived alone in a small house in the snow for over 40 winters, meticulously recording weather and environmental data twice daily. He is considered a 'snow guardian' and has amassed a vast collection of observations that are now used by researchers to study climate trends, showing that winters now bring snow later, lose snow sooner, and have an overall warmer climate.

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UNIT 7 The Snow Guardian

Narrator Have you ever wondered if you (1)……………………………………………………., what stories it might tell?
There is someone who has done it. His name is billy barr.

billy barr I spell it, small b-i-l-l-y, small b-a-r-r.

Narrator Some people call him the snow guardian. He lives (2)…………………………………………………….

billy barr Picture this: it's a snowy day, it's dark and cold, and you make a fire and you're sitting by the fire,
and you're (3)……………………………………………………, and it goes on for nine months.

Narrator billy lives alone in this house he helped build. Here he grows his garden, has an impressive hat
collection, loves cricket, and dreams of Bollywood. Every couple of weeks, he (4)…………………………………………
for supplies. He's been doing this for more than 40 winters. But billy does a little more than just read and
drink tea. For those 40 winters, billy has kept (5)…………………………………………………… in his little part of the
world.

billy barr Okay... February 26th, 1978, ten and a half inches of snow that day. January 28th, minus eleven
and a half. April 28th, 1980, I was forty-one. Oh, that sounds nice. 1997, (6)…………………………………………………,
a weasel was roaming around inside the shack, and the birds were back.

I lived in a 8-by-10 foot old shack. I (7)……………………………………………………, and I had nothing, and I was just
there all day. The main thing I interacted with was the weather and the animals. So I started recording things
just because it was something to do. I (8)………………………………………………, no goals, no anything. So, actually,
the researchers, the lab, wanted to look at it. And then once he started looking at it scientifically, then, all of a
sudden, like, (9)…………………………………………………… were being used for more than my own curiosity.

Narrator billy has done this every day, twice a day, all winter long.

billy barr I keep going until the snow is gone. If it snowed, I (10)…………………………………………………….

The trend I see is that we're getting a permanent snowpack later, and we get to bare ground sooner. We'll
have years where (11)……………………………………………………, and then we lost snow sooner than years that had
a lot less snow, just because it's a lot warmer now.

Narrator In a normal winter, you'd expect to have (12)……………………………………………………. Last year, billy
recorded 36.

billy barr Not only is it a lot warmer, we're (13)……………………………………………………. Soon as you get dust on
the snow, it melts like that. You're talking about the snowpack, the water supply for most of the southwest.
I'm not real hopeful, just because I don't know (14)…………………………………………………….

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