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高中英语必修二
unit4
< br>课文及听
力原文
DAISY
LEARNED
TO
HELP
WLDLIFE<
/p>
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26
页）
Daisy
had
always
longed
to
help
endangered
species
of
wildlife.
One
day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her
bed.
want
to
go?
it
asked.
Daisy
responded
immediately.
like
to
see
some
endangered wildlife,
I can
find the animal that gave fur to make this
sweater.
carpet
flew
away
and
took
her
to
Tibet.
There
Daisy
saw
an
antelope
looking
sad.
It
said,
for the wool beneath
our stomachs. Our
fur is being used to
make sweaters for people like you. As a result, we
are now
an endangered
species.
didn't
know
that.
I
wonder
what
is
being
done
to
help
you.
Flying
carpet,
please
show me a place where there's some
wildlife protection.
The
flying
carpet
travelled
so
fast
that
next
minute
they
were
in
Zimbabwe.
Daisy turned around
and
found
that she was
being
watched by an
elephant.
you
come
to
take
my
photo?
it
asked.
In
relief
Daisy
burst
into laughter.
”
said the elephant,
endangered species. Farmers hunted us
without mercy. They said we
destroyed
their
farms,
and
money
from
tourists
only
went
to
the
large
tour
companies. So the government decided to
help. They allowed tourists to
hunt
only a certain number of animals if they paid the
farmers. Now the
farmers
are
happy
and
our
numbers
are
increasing.
So
good
things
are
being
done here to save
local wildlife.
Daisy smiled.
wildlife
protection,
but
I'd
like
to
help
as
the
WWF
suggests.
The
carpet
rose again and almost
at once they were in a thick rainforest. A monkey
watched them as it rubbed itself.
”
I
’
m protecting
myself from mosquitoes,
millipede
insect,
I
rub
it
over
my
body.
It
contains
a
powerful
drug
which
affects
mosquitoes.
You
should
pay
more
attention
to
the
rainforest
where
I live and appreciate how the animals
live together. No rainforest, no
animals, no drugs.
Daisy was
amazed.
and we can begin producing this
new
drug. Monkey, please come and
help.
The monkey agreed. The carpet flew
home. As they landed, things began to
disappear. Two minutes
later everything had gone - the monkey, too. So
Daisy was not able to make her new
drug. But what an experience! She had
learned so much! And there was always
WWF
…
第四单元
阅读一
Daisy
如何学习去帮助野生动物
Daisy
常常渴望去帮助濒临灭绝的种类的野生动物。一天她
醒来发现一个正在飞
行的飞毯在她包里。
“你想去哪里？”它问
。
Daisy
立刻回答它。
“我想去看
那些
濒临灭绝的动物，
”
她说。
“请带我去那个我可以找到供给皮毛去制造这件毛衣的
动物的一个遥远
的地方。
”飞毯立刻带她飞去了西藏。在那里
Daisy
看到了一支
看起来很伤心的羚羊。它说，
“我
们被杀是为了我们肚子下的毛。我们的皮毛被
人类用来制造像你这样的毛衣。因此，现在
我们是一种濒临灭绝的种类。
”然后
Daisy
哭喊着，
“我很抱歉我不知道那些。我想知道神马可以被做来帮助你们。
飞毯，请带我去一个有一些野生动物保护区的地方。
”
飞毯飞得如此的快以至于他们下一分钟就在
Zimb
abwe
。
Daisy
转来转去然后发
现
她被一头大象盯着。
“你过来跟我照相了么？”它问。
Daisy
松了口气突然笑起
来。
“不要笑，
”大象说，
“我们曾经是濒临灭绝的品
种。农民好不仁慈地猎杀我
们。他们说我们破坏了他们的天地，和来自那些只游览大工厂
的游客的钱。所以
政府决定去帮助。
他们允许游客给钱农民然后
可以去猎杀确定数量的动物。
现在
农民很高兴而且我们的数量在
增加。
所以好事情正被做于营救当地的野生动物。
”
Daisy
微笑了。
“
那是个好消息。它展示了野生动物保护的重要性，不过我喜欢
去帮助像
< br>WWF
这样的建议。
”飞毯再次升起然后几乎同一时间他
们在一个阴霾的
热带雨林。
一支猴子看着他们就像它摩擦它自己
。
“你在干神马？”
Daisy
问。<
/p>
“我
在保护自己不受蚊子的伤害，
”它回
答。
“当我找到一只千足虫昆虫，我会在我身
上摩擦它。
它包涵了一种强大的可以影响蚊子的药物。
你应该更加注意那些我居<
/p>
住的热带雨林并好好鉴赏动物们如何居住在一齐。没有雨林，没有动物，没有药
物。
”
Daisy
很惊讶。
“飞毯，请带我回家这样我可以联系
WWF
并开始保护这种新的药
物。猴子，请过来帮忙。
”那猴子同意了。飞毯飞回家了。当他们降落时，事物
开始消失了。两
分钟后所有东西都消失了
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那只猴子也是。所以
Daisy
不能去制
造她的新药物。不过如此的一段经
历！她已经学习了那么多！还有那里的
WWF......
ANIMAL EXTINCTION
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30
页）
Many animals have disappeared during
the long history of the earth. The
most
famous of these animals are dinosaurs.
They
lived on the earth
tens
of millions of years ago, long before
humans came into being and their
future
seemed secure at that time.
There were
many different kinds of dinosaur and a number of
them used to
live
in
China. The eggs of twenty-five species
have
been found in
Xixia,
County, Nanyang, Henan Province. Not
long ago a rare new species of
bird-
like
dinosaur
was
discovered
in
Chaoyang
County,
Liaoning
Province.
When scientists inspected the bones,
they were surprised to find that
these
dinosaurs could
not only run
like the others
but also
climb trees.
They learned this from the
way the bones were joined together.
Dinosaurs died out suddenly about 65
million years ago. Some scientists
think it came after an unexpected
incident when a huge rock from space
hit the earth and put too much dust
into the air. Others think the earth
got too hot for the dinosaurs to live
on any more. Nobody knows for sure
why
and how dinosaurs disappeared from the earth in
such a short time.
We know
many other wild plants, animals,
insects
and birds
have died out
more
recently.
According
to
a
UN
report,
some
844
animals
and
plants
have
disappeared in the last 500 years. The
dodo is one of them. It lived on
the
Island of Mauritius and was a very friendly
animal. Please listen to
a story of the
dodo and how it disappeared from the earth.
从地球有史以来的这段漫长时期，
许多动物都消失了。
这些动物中最有名的是恐
龙。千百万年前，恐龙就在地球上生活，比人类的出现要早得
多，当时它们的前
景好像也很安全。
当时有许多不同种类的恐龙
，
其中有很多种类曾经生活在中国。
25
个种类的恐龙蛋是在河南省南阳西峡县发现的。不久前，在辽宁省的朝阳县
新发现了一
种罕见的、形状像鸟一样的恐龙。科学家们观察它们的骨头时，惊奇
地发现它们不仅跟其
他恐龙一样可以跑，
而且还可以爬树。
科学家们是根据恐龙
骨骼的连接方式得知的这些。
恐龙大约在
6500
万年前就突然地灭绝了。有些科学家认为恐龙灭绝是发
生在一
件意外事故之后，当时宇宙间一块巨石击中地球因而在空气中扬起太多的尘土。<
/p>
另外一些科学家们则认为，地球变得太热，因此恐龙无法在地球上生活了。没有
人确切地知道恐龙是由于什么原因，又是怎样在这么短的时间里从地球上消失
的。
我们知道，近来许多其他的野生动植物、昆虫和鸟类也灭绝了。根据联合国的一