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ANIMALS? 
8. WHAT PART OF THE BEAR MOST LIKELY WARMS UP FIRST FROM 
HIBERNATION? 
 
LISTENING SKILL 5 
 
EXAMPLE 1 
 
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Listen to part of a lecture in a geography class. 

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LPREP IBT 3 E AudioScript 
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(Professor)
All of the great rivers of the world have been around much longer than 
humanity, but what makes a river really old? 
The Nile River in Africa, which is several hundred million years old, is 
believed to be the world’s oldest river. It’s also the longest, at 4,145 miles 
in length. As an old river, it doesn’t change drastically in elevation for 
most of its length, and has a meandering path, a slow flow, and a wide 
flood plain. 
Now, let’s discuss the young Colorado, which has deep, narrow valleys 
and a very rapid flow. I think you would appreciate the difference if you 
sailed down the two rivers. The wide riverboats used on the Nile wouldn’t 
make it down the rolling and boiling white water of the Colorado. 
Let’s also take a look at the Amazon River in South America. It’s slightly 
shorter than the Nile at just over 4,000 miles in length, but it carries more 
water than any other river. And, although it is believed to be much 
younger than the Nile in absolute terms, we can observe in the Amazon 
many of the characteristics that put it into the same age class.
Again, by identifying another major river by age, the Columbia River in 
the Pacific Northwest—which has the greatest flow of any river in North 
America—we can see how, unlike the Amazon, it still displays its relative 
youth as it runs swiftly through high and spectacular mountain gorges.
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