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
aerial pollution
air gap barrier
almodovar del campo (almodovar)
barrier net
benjamin-constant
biry
bregy
caraomer (negru voda)
carnosol
catadonyl alcohol
cautires hsui
central reservations
centralizing force
cephalin-cholesterol flocculation
circulating lubrication
clampdowns
cleavabilities
coexecutors
coincident configurations
concrete forming cycle
contact metamorphic rocks
corporate pluralism
cost-plus contracts
crypticss
default rules
disengaging shaft
domestic excise taxation
dudical
encephalotrigeminal
enetrating wound of posterior cranial fossa
enquered
exponentially weighted moving average model
fish forks
flapper coil
Fornelli
full-gear
gasoline bus
genus Uropsilus
h.p
health chemistry
heavy industrial economics
helladosphaera cornifera
i chou
intralaminal complexing
is at an end
ischemic myocardium
jadeitite
joell
keep somebody company
LC (logic cell)
looks out on
Loughlins
muns
neocortex
never quote two prices
nippold
nominal chamfer dimension
non-NCP station
nonenteric
nonequilibrium electrochemistry
notional profit
on ... return
paper tiger
peachlike
Peniscola
phosphate process
phosphorogen
photoelectric level transducer
plate washer
processing intent
Public Record Office
quotee
rainclothes
re-copy
receiver-scanner
reflectance radiometer-photometer
reiterately
rosenquists
Sand Creek
Santa Cruz Island
scatteredly
send give one's resignation
shoot the breeze
spectral transmissivity
spray sizing
static divider
Steinheim an der Murr
stock ram
Stonehenge
stopstreet
sum signal
super-eruption
supinanin
susses
sweet smeit
syndrome of water diffusion due to spleen deficiency
tallents
thymosins
unrealisticness
valence eletron
veers
vowel phoneme