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
anterior fasciculus proprius
aperiodic function
area type flowmeter
automatic square rooting
b-52
bag conveyer
befor
bevel-faced hammer
blind mole rat
boom topping lift
bow pens
bucket attachment
Cauchy condensation test for convergence
ceratostomellas
cerebrospinal sclerosis
coinductions
counter-allegations
cover quadrat
Cuadrada, Sa.
cumenyl
cumlike
data inaccuracy
deaerating tank
delerium
differential costing
diffractaic acid
dignify
discontinuities defect in welds
droplet culture
dry as dust
Egmont, Lamoral
electro-technician
electrode puncher
exchange control regulation
external cylindrical centerless grinding machine
farm tax
firewall
foodfishes
fragile health
fried crab meat
hearth sow
high energy concentrate fodder
hogga
holdup in the sale of commodities
imperium in imperio
inertia-reel seat-belt
ionexchange chromatography
keckle
Kettering ignition system
Kibor
lithureteria
main powerplant
Mapiri
marine worm
matrix printers
memory byte location
metal-oxide-semiconductor array
mud bit
naphthalimido
natacha
neonicotin
nonpensionable supplements
Normans
office-seekers
onomatopoeiae
orchectomy
Oxytropis qilianshanica
Pancake Tuesday
pancreaticosarcoma
partition programs
pigment taffeta
pin-heads
placidia
pleomorphisms
portentously
position limitation
race-tracks
reef line
Rex Hunt
rim latch lock
rolling mill yield
Runyon classification of atypical Mycobacterium
sex slave
sluice keel
spoonplug
steady-state measurement
stereodynamic
stock tank barrels(stb)
story reel
strawmen
Taskino
the american revolution
tilt-yard
time lag of higher order
tombstone in slab
training data
unhelpfulnesses
unhoven
vae victis
vanadylous chloride
Vasil'yevka
vermelon