Elephants conservation

文章大意

两名学生Ruth和Edward讨论肯尼亚大象保护作业：大象闯入农田吃庄稼，农民开枪自卫导致大象对人敌视。他们提出用蜜蜂驱赶大象的实验，因为蜜蜂会攻击大象眼睛、象鼻等敏感部位，小象皮肤薄更易受伤，象群因此怕蜂。

题目与答案

1. 21-22 What are the TWO results happened as elephants stepping on farmer's field?
   • farmers moved away from the affected areas
   • some farmers' homes were destroyed
   • farmers have less support for elephant conservation
   • farmers tried to protect their families
   • elephants became aggressive towards the farmers

   答案：farmers have less support for elephant conservation,elephants became aggressive towards the farmers

   原文定位：farmers are shooting the elephants to keep their crops safe, and then the other elephants are affected and become very hostile to humans;it's understandable that farmers don't feel like supporting elephant conservation if their own livelihood is being destroyed

   同义替换：「stepping on」↔「destroy」，「aggressive」↔「hostile」，「less」↔「don't feel like」

2. 23-24 What TWO impacts could be made by bees to elephants?
   • they can hurt the skin of the adult elephants
   • they like to attack the sensitive parts of the elephants
   • elephants are not afraid of bees
   • young elephants are affected negatively
   • they have little effect on elephants

   答案：they like to attack the sensitive parts of the elephants,young elephants are affected negatively

   原文定位：Bees can't sting through the thick skin on an adult elephant's body, but they target the sensitive areas;the baby elephants, the calves, which have thinner skin, so they can be really badly affected

   同义替换：「attack」↔「target」，「parts」↔「areas」，「young」↔「baby」，「negatively」↔「badly」

3. 25 What is result of the experiment of hanging a container of bees by the farms?
   • the trees with bees were trampled down by elephants
   • the elephants started to look for the trees with bees
   • it can be used for protecting farmer's crops

   答案：the trees with bees were trampled down by elephants

   原文定位：They hung containers full of bees in trees near the farms;And they listened in trees without containers;And they found the elephants trampled down the trees that didn't have any containers;And stayed well away from the ones with the bees in

   同义替换：「protecting」↔「stayed well away from」

4. 26 How did the elephants respond to the audio recording of bees?
   • they were not aware of the danger
   • they ran away quickly and kept looking back
   • they stopped and looked for the source of the sound

   答案：they ran away quickly and kept looking back

   原文定位：they dashed off in the opposite direction. They kept turning their heads around

   同义替换：「ran away quickly」↔「dashed off」，「kept looking back」↔「kept turning their heads around」

5. 27 The reason why one herd of elephants didn't run away
   • they didn't hear the sound clear
   • they never had the experience before
   • they didn't pay attention to the recording

   答案：they never had the experience before

   原文定位：this particular herd lacked any experience of bees. They've never encountered any, so they weren't afraid of the recording

   同义替换：「didn't run away」↔「weren't afraid of the recording」，「never had」↔「lacked」

6. 28 What surprised the researchers when elephants heard the recording?
   • some elephants reacted to it immediately
   • they were scared for only 10 seconds
   • most elephants didn't take any action

   答案：some elephants reacted to it immediately

   原文定位：what surprised the researchers was;almost fifty percent of the herds did this very quickly, within ten seconds of hearing the recording

   同义替换：「reacted to it immediately」↔「did this very quickly」

7. 29 What is the drawback of the application of bee recording?
   • finding suitable power to run the device
   • training suitable people to set out the device
   • the battery can't last long time

   答案：finding suitable power to run the device

   原文定位：You've got to have the electricity to run the machinery

   同义替换：「drawback」↔「not all that straightforward」，「finding suitable power」↔「have got to have the electricity」，「device」↔「machinery」

8. 30 What is the other effective method as a deterrent to elephants?
   • hanging cowbells
   • setting up electric fences
   • growing chili peppers

   答案：hanging cowbells

   原文定位：They're trying other methods as well, like electric fences;But when they hang cowbells on the fences, that seemed to scare them off

   同义替换：「effective method as a deterrent」↔「seemed to scare them off」，「keep elephants away」↔「scare them off」