时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:大学英语六级听力短文


英语课

Can Animals Be Made to Work for Us?


Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be taught to do a number or simple jobs. They say that in a film or on TV, we may see elephants or monkeys, dogs, bears or other animals doing a lot of things. If you watch carefully, you may find that those animals are always given something to eat in return for doing them. The scientists said that many different animals may be taught to do a number of simple jobs if they know they will get something to eat in return. Of course, as we know, dogs can be used 1 to guard 2 a house. And elephants can be used to do some heavy jobs. And we can also teach animals to work in factories. Apes 3, for example, have been used in America to help make cars. And scientists believe that these large monkeys may one day get in crops 4 and even drive trains.



1 used
adj.用旧了的,旧的;习惯于…;过去惯/经常
  • I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
  • He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。
2 guard
n.守卫者,警戒;v.保卫,看守,当心
  • A guard was placed at the door.门口设了一个警卫。
  • The guard stopped him from going through the gate.警卫不让他通过大门。
3 apes
猿( ape的名词复数 )
  • We watched two apes grooming each other. 我们看两只猩猩在互相理毛。
  • Chimpanzees and gorillas are both apes. 黑猩猩和大猩猩都是类人猿。
4 crops
pl.农作物
  • Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into new crops. 目前正鼓励农民兼种新的农作物。
  • The crops will not grow on exposed hillsides. 在裸露的山坡上庄稼没法生长。
学英语单词
a brother of the angle
a naval battle
adjustable point
air bearing gyroscope
andyrobertsites
apparent formation water resistivity
automatic control assembly
balanced multiway merge
bardolis
BBC English
betahydroxybutyric acid bhba
body-shaping
bow jig
Canton system
cellar taste
cickness
Coelacanthidae
colloidal propellant
composite reaction
concerned with
counter-vindication
crossing ship
Dengfeng group
digital-synchro converter
double chorus
dynatron character
embassadry
entrechat six
error in classification
estimated time of leaving
etchegarays
even keel
exhaust retarder
Fildes culture-medium
fill order
flocculation in the magnetic field
fly into a temper
fried mutton chop with vegetable
fully distributed cost
Habenaria delavayi
half round pliers
harbo(u)r siltation
hasuike
Heyn's etching method
high turbine exhaust pressure
identificable
idle circuit condition
immunoglobulin class
inositol trisphosphate
insurance-policy
INVSL
James barberry
Lactuca sativa Bisch.
languente
lanky
lead sb up the garden
levelling property
liquidmetal
longibracteata
loss coefficient
lucios
magosine
Makovnik
Marinovka
medalet
monocranus
Naranjo Dulce
natural frequency of shafting
negative valued product
Neill-Mooser reaction
nuclear reaction spectrometry
operation on sympathetic nervous system
orthogonal polynomial transformation
out-of-band frequency assignment
parachute assembly
petit souper
plimsol, plimsole
polyclonal activator
portable command language
primothyron
proenzyme
PSMMV
pyoderma circumscriptum
radiographing requirements
Ramses IX
rear shaft seal
servo motor for throttle regulation
set theories
shape distortion
shift computer
Sigmoidoproctectomy
soil detorioration
solley
stack interrupt
stage frights
stamping die
subjugular fin
taximan
telegamic
unrecorded liability
vinculums
wallbar