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
5-fluoro-2-nitrobenzoic acid
advantageous
Al Fā'idiyah
anchoring cone
animal clipper
antiwarriors
arrested development of mind
atmosphere gas generating plant
average noise factor
binding mode
Blattopteroidea
bulk raw materials
Calder, River
cavity resonance
charrettes
chromosome dosimetry
chronic iridocyclitis
cochlear implants
code generator data
conical beaker
dance after someone's pipe
denotationally
doormanship
double pot mortar pump
down-line
dracoresino tannol
drain conductance
drexell
elastique
electric-transmission
estaran
eurasian kestrel
exciting choke
facsimile paper
fairway buoy
Faston
female hysteria
fire zone
foine
galapagoss
Glen Wilton
Hambach
hantle
high-volatile
I am the last man to
in a twinkling
incoherent fiber optics
increased exertion
international nautical miles
iridochorioiditis
jk flip-flop
kibbutzniks
kilmainhams
Kuzmichëvka
low gearing
lymphonodi
maltolate
mammographer
man of her word
Mazar Saiyidna Suleiman
migration origin
Natsue
normocalciuric
northwest territoriess
open injective mapping
over-dress
pet hate
phylactolaemata
pixel peep
post-projects
prismatocarpus
record carrier
resection of rectum
resin fill
Rifamdin
run the foil
runningbacks
semi-Whitneyite
sends a message
sequence switching mechanism for control rod movement
serial server
Shared Wireless Access Protocol
sleepthe sleep of the just
space optics
sticklebacking
straighten sth out
striking distance
the waves
Thera
thermonuclear arms race
thick-walled parenchyma
three-up
Togian, Kep.
Treacher Collins syndrome
tube-type camera
unrhapsodic
urquidi
veratrifolia
walshams
warping buoy
westernizes
Wirsberg