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
aerobiotic
aethiopis
aging periods
aluminum-air cell
American merlin
angariation
antenna complex
bahaization
bank of supporter
casual-dress day, casual day
characteristic vector
clavate process
combretum pilosum roxb.
computing statement
conductive salinometer
conidio-
constant input
coriaceum
decade oscillator
diamondback turtle
diurnal filariasis
drawleg
dynamic programming model
ecological boomerang
exteriorly
failure detection
falling rocks
go over like nine pins
gonecystis
great-great-
group 2 facsimile machine
harold lloyds
higher laws
i will follow
iceycle
immersion lens
in all
jaagsiepte jaagsiekte
jaffeite
jean-mary
Jebsen Point
jobmaster
kdj
lattice cell
lepra maculosa
lituites
lyricalness
m. scalenus medius
make heavy wiather
manette
mid-chrome yellow paint
minehunting sonar
mortifications
mycolyl
nanotubules
Nkoyé
nonclassical carbocation
onna mai (japan)
patty cake
PETALICHTHYOMORPHA
plasma thromboplastin
polar-bear
pollen chamber
pressed grape
previllous embryo
product metric
professional mannerism
program uncertainty
proportionality limit
puckishly
pyrilamine
q-analyses
quinoxalinedione
recoil spectrum
red and black vertical stripes buoy
relayings
scrapable
seppanen
sheepcote
shunt-regulated amplifier
skiffles
soild runoff
sond
steel-bonded carbide products
Stegolophodon
structured program
sueos
swift-handedness
swung for the fences
system integration test
table feed
tarsias
tetovo
tetramannose
thisan
titty juice
to sneeze
trisynocotyledonous
tubercle
unfragmentable
uranoscopus tosae
Wankel rotary compressor