时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:大学英语六级听力短文


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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
(luminescence) emission spectrum
acoustic attenuation coefficient
active feedback
actual catch
alito
anterior commisure of labia
anthems
appropriation receipt
automation of enterprise management
avary
Baffin Basin
bail you out
bcv
be enrolled in
be hard at
Beaglehole
Blagdon
blessed
body oil
cation or base exchange capacity
center-castle
chlorotrifluoroethylene polymers
colorimetric
computer processed
configuration menu
contract beer
conventional type
COOLGen
coordinating review authority
cornice vent
cotwin
cross face
crpv
curled
Cuspis dentis
davallia formosana
Dexoval
door prize
dreze
egenolfia sinensis maxon
electronic trading platform
electrotropism
elliptical system
employee-leasing
emptyhandedness
Fothergill's neuralgia
free-verser
fuzzy-wuzzies
Groot-Brakrivier
hand-operated psychrometer
helpworthy
hemilaryngectomy
human eye
Hvammsfjördhur
Icenic
interpretable
issue negotiation
justifica-tions
knowledge and understanding
Leofungine
lower wing coverts
luxe
m. styloglossus
matter to you
millband
modifying effect
mucolipidoses
musculotonic center
neohydatothrips plynopygus
Notophthalmus
official travel
open assemble time
optic(al) sign
orebed development
parachromatin
pasek
personality characteristic
phenyldichloroarsine
policy measures
probability plot method
process entry point
prothrombin accelerators
pseudomathematics
purna r.
pyruvate carboxylase
quinquireme
richester
ruppelt
scatter communication system
Senecio royleanus
spinetingler
standardized regression coefficient
STAR (self-testing and repair)
Syrian bean caper
themiste (lagenopsis) lageniformis
triacontanae
volume surface diameter
volumina
weak sisters
with a view to sth
wk.
zigzag coccus