时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:情景英语口语100主题


英语课
084 animals

Words
Wild domesticated 1 bear wolf elephant giraffe whale shark snake monkey rat mouse rabbit panda cow sheep pig horse tiger dragon phoenix 2 chicken bird lizard 3


Phrases
Conduct animal experiments
Keep an animal in a zoo
Cause a species 4 to die out
Become extinct 5 / endangered
Protect a species
Breed animals (for food)

Beginner
A: I was just watching a documentary 6 on tv about people us dogs for various purpose. It was very interesting.
B: I love dogs. They have been used as guards for centuries. Nowadays, they are often used to find illegal drugs and bombs by the police and customs officers.
A; the documentary also pointed 7 out that they are used by shepherds to round up sheep and by rescue workers to find people trapped under rubble 8 or snow.
B; horses are useful to people too. We use them for sports and recreation.
A: don’t forget that horses are still used in many countries to pull ploughs and carts.
B: can you ride a horse?
A: yes, I can. I don’t ride regularly though. How about you?
B: I can ride too. Perhaps we could go horse riding together at the weekend?
A: what a good idea!


Intermediate 9
A; what do you think of the way people use and treat animals?
B: I think most people treat animals well, but we are often cruel to animals. When we raise animals for food, the conditions they live in are often poor.
A; perhaps people should stop eating animals. We could grow more crops.
B; what would you do with all the animas? You couldn’t just let them go. Besides, some people would still hunt them. Meat has become an integral 10 part of our diet.
A; we could provide them with better conditions anyway. We should certainly try to improve the conditions at zoos. We should try to recreate the natural conditions as much as possible.
B: that’s true. I think zoo are a good idea, because they allow people to get close to animals. I think it’s good for kids to see wild animals.
A; I agree. I’m an adult and I love going to the zoo. I don’t like animals experiments though. I believe that we can do tests in other ways.
B; I read that the number of animals being used in experiments is falling dramatically as new techniques are being introduced.
A: that’s good news. The good thing is that most people treat their pets well.
B; sometimes you read about people who have been cruel to pets or other animals, but those stories are rare.
A: have you every given money to any of the charities that take care of animals.
B: yes, I have. They do an excellent job.

1 domesticated
adj.喜欢家庭生活的;(指动物)被驯养了的v.驯化( domesticate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He is thoroughly domesticated and cooks a delicious chicken casserole. 他精于家务,烹制的砂锅炖小鸡非常可口。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The donkey is a domesticated form of the African wild ass. 驴是非洲野驴的一种已驯化的品种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 phoenix
n.凤凰,长生(不死)鸟;引申为重生
  • The airline rose like a phoenix from the ashes.这家航空公司又起死回生了。
  • The phoenix worship of China is fetish worship not totem adoration.中国凤崇拜是灵物崇拜而非图腾崇拜。
3 lizard
n.蜥蜴,壁虎
  • A chameleon is a kind of lizard.变色龙是一种蜥蜴。
  • The lizard darted out its tongue at the insect.蜥蜴伸出舌头去吃小昆虫。
4 species
n.物种,种群
  • Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗?
  • This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。
5 extinct
adj.灭绝的,不再活跃的,熄灭了的,已废弃的
  • All hopes were extinct.所有希望都破灭了。
  • Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。
6 documentary
adj.文献的;n.纪录片
  • This case lacked documentary proof.本案缺少书面证据。
  • I watched a documentary on the Civil War.我看了一部关于内战的纪录片。
7 pointed
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
8 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
9 intermediate
adj.中间的,居间的,中级的;n.中间体,媒介物
  • This country is now at an intermediate stage of development.这个国家目前正处于发展的中间阶段。
  • Gray is intermediate between black and white.灰色介于黑色和白色之间。
10 integral
adj.必不可少的,构成整体所必需的
  • She is our best player,who is integral to our team.她是我们最好的球员,我们队离不开她。
  • That's an integral part of the country.那是构成国家所必需的一部分。
学英语单词
Abernethies
abrasive cutoff machine
advocacy group
all gear system
Asia cement co.
Aubryist
balsamum hapdwickiae
batch solder(ing)
Bengal bean
bicarbonate buffer system
bid-hook
bijective numeration
boiler ash
bsk
california false morels
Castillonnes
catalog of property
center of load
chinchilla brevicaudata
claw mount
come off it
come-all-you
compensation and benefit
complete report
consultory
Cyclobalanopsis jenseniana
cytogenic anemia
data-clock separator
Dentons
early-onset
eight-thirty
equilibrating operation
F waves
family zygnemataceaes
fat chances
female spring bar
fund raising activities
gangways
georgicus
give someone trouble
grappa
Gyrstinge
hard-rock tunnel boring
Hcit2-
high ranking
hijackware
home teacher
Hydroperite
impetuously
insulating fault
jermoluk
kittiwakes
long bread
Longkou
low-alcohol
mancations
megabats
melanins
merito
metropolitan area
nematological
nerve system
non-renormalizable theory
nonlinear Schrodinger equation
once upon a time
optimal pointwise control
Osbeckia sikkimensis
parametric device
pinch hitting
politeia
poyntz
Prunus armeniaca L.
radiation retinopathy
re-bore
reaction of replacement
reactive-current component
regulatory aging
reinforced earth-rockfill dam
resistance minimum
reslated
retrogressively
SBY
scabrock
shrink flanging die
sintering charge
slide-in strength
slobberbone
Sulphamar
suspended scaffold
telex station
think nothing of it
thite
threshold limit value free enviroment
tussian
uk sandwich course
unbiennium
unusual event recording system
vallely
valley wall
yellow scale
Yobetsu-dake
Zapiola Seamount