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
acne pustulosa
action
after-mature
allotment for annual expenditures
aneuhaploidy
annicks
Antiflamisonum
artesian water circulation
be partial
best glide speed
big dippers
blood arkshell
bluesily
broken country
Būbīyān, Jazirat
capstan lathe
cefuroxime
celebenses
closing the bank account
coating screen by centrifugal sedimentation
collection of deposits
complete adjustment
comprehensible
continent building
core phase
Cortalone
coupling quantumefficiency
cross density
dispersed fault
dissolved substances in seawater
dry zirconium metal
effective address
efficient method
error in performance comparison
Everest theodolite
family Canidae
ferraria undulata l.
ganske
high temperature electrostatic precipitator
hinged rotor
I-governor
impulse-reaction turbine
ipomoea pes-capraes
ischemic contracture due to war injury
joint-filling material
leak valve
linear waveform response
majority trading partner
maximum conversion
microlithographic
misfashioned
Moslem calendar
multi-expert system
mysticising
natural food conditioned reflex
natural-convection
Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
non-aqueous reprocessing
non-rising-stem valve
noniodized
nonmucinous
nucleonic structure factor
Okohon
pinup girl
post-vaccinal encephalomyelitis
production of smoke
promotional study
pyrometer cone
rhombic tetrahedron
Rocca di Papa
scheduling network
Schiller-Christian disease
septanoside
settle to do sth
sharing criterion
silicate fibre
slowin
stencil film
stirred bed agitator-conveyor
stirup
straw mulch
string lines
stump cutter
subglossitis diphtheroides
sun-belts
supply line
tacitness
Takua Pa
tee-fitting
time axis shift
time polarity control code
transverse maximum-to-average-power ratio
turn the cat in the pan
unearths
unpreachy
vegetative disorder
Wade-Giles romanization
water hydraulics
whip cord
wqttmeter
yanking