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
Abadszalok
absorbing position
acidified milk
angle bearing
anti-Stokes Raman scattering
Asclepia meadii
bogey-hole
brick masonry
C. B. C.
Caridan
cephazolin
chain
chapman kolmogorov equation
chromosome chiasmata
classical absorption
come to fame
computer instruction
cross storage
cystinemia
dendrobium hercoglossum reichb.
discovery of law
dynamics of upper ocean
elasticity of productivity
electronic sunflower
escalloped
European shrike
external nasal branch
ferrandin
Florence's tests
foam fire-fighting
FOB airport
giving in to
hallmarks
have an affection towards sb.
have one's fingers in the till
hydrocorals
improved propeller
interfamily transfers
internal focussing
José Batlle y Ordóňez
kepas
krugite
La Parilla
lake superiors
laurylthiocyanate
literary writing
locate mode
locking stud
loyalty check
lwy
maritime insurance
matching amplifier
methylbenzyl alcohol
mispackaged
missed discount
modificative
o-tolyl mercaptan
over-shipment
palaeozoologies
pendulous gyro accelerometer
pepus
peskiness
pin jointed members
poiseless
posterior ligament of incus
pound-meal
prefation
pregnancy jaundice
priveledge
pullulate
put it across someone
put them up
reattracts
reflection mode filter
residual anticline
s time
safety firebreak
sample space
sand tube
self propelled drill
show-shop
sidereal variations
specialities'
Stendal
survey probe
symptomatic porphyria
taylow weighting
teeth-roller cracker
tenifugal
theory of everything
thiamorpholine
throttling back
tree-lights
Trichomonas muris
tricolour pick-up tube
triethylamine hydrobromide
tripetaloid
undelightful
underlying transaction
virginny
woodleigh
xanthopsin