英语听力：自然百科 野性俄罗斯之西伯利亚 Siberia—8
时间：2018-12-26 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2011年
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The Siberia salamander is one of only a few species on the planet that can survive the deep freeze like this.
Moving 15,000 km to Siberia's southern steppes, the landscape dramatically changes. Pine forests give way to what look like African plains. Here, wild horses run free. They share the land with small groups of camels and the strange goitered gazelles. These nomadic 1 gazelles once roamed across the Central Asia by the tens of thousands, but hunting and habitat loss have taken their toll 2. They meander 3 across the plains eating grasses and shrubs 4, in the autumn rut, the male’s throat swell 5 up, giving them their name. A threatened gazelle can dart 6 from its enemies at 60 km per hour. They slip like a breeze through the Mongolian border fence.
Heading southwest along the 3400-kilometer Mongolian border, the terrain 7 turns mountainous. The Altai mountains stretches 4500 meters into the sky and are even twice as long as the European Alps. In this arid 8, harsh and wind-swept environment, the world's largest sheep make their home, the argali, weighing about 160 kilos prized by hunters for their size.
1 nomadic
adj.流浪的；游牧的
- This tribe still live a nomadic life.这个民族仍然过着游牧生活。
- The plowing culture and the nomadic culture are two traditional principal cultures in China.农耕文化与游牧文化是我国传统的两大主体文化。
2 toll
n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
3 meander
n.河流的曲折，漫步，迂回旅行；v.缓慢而弯曲地流动，漫谈
- Visitors and locals alike meander along the sidewalks of the Seine River.游客与当地人沿着塞纳河岸漫步聊天。
- They tumble down mountainsides and meander through flat farmlands.它们滚滚冲下山脊，蜿蜒穿过平坦的农田。
4 shrubs
灌木( shrub的名词复数 )
- The gardener spent a complete morning in trimming those two shrubs. 园丁花了整个上午的时间修剪那两处灌木林。
- These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots. 这些灌木需要更多的光照才能抽出开花的新枝。
5 swell
vi.膨胀，肿胀；增长，增强
- The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
- His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。
6 dart
v.猛冲，投掷；n.飞镖，猛冲
- The child made a sudden dart across the road.那小孩突然冲过马路。
- Markov died after being struck by a poison dart.马尔科夫身中毒镖而亡。