雅思听力真题（Part 3）
学生讨论鸽子研究：冠鸠、岩鸽与尼柯巴鸠
本篇也叫：鸽子研究、澳洲冠鸠、冠鸠、岩鸽、尼柯巴鸠、黑带鸽
Part 3 · 考频：中频 · 最近考试：2016.4.21
本篇为雅思听力真题（Part 3）《Research on pigeon》，共 10 题，2016.4.21雅思考试真题回忆，页面提供完整题目、答案与解析，并支持在线机考模式免费练习。本页同时提供 Markdown 版本 供 AI 助手与搜索引擎直接读取。
两位环境研究学生Jennifer和Adam对比鸽子研究，准备课堂展示。他们提到澳洲冠鸠飞行时用翅膀发出哨声报警，岩鸽分布最广、适应力最强，澳洲北部黑带鸽仅存于一小片雨林，加拉帕戈斯鸽只吃一种仙人掌，尼柯巴鸠有金属绿色羽毛，还指出鸽子不能吃肉。
答案：communicates with its wings
原文定位：I found an interesting new study on the Australian crested pigeon. It makes a special sound to warn the rest of the flock of danger;But a lot of birds use calls or songs to find a mate or to sound the alarm. What's special about this one;Well, it uses its wings;Really;Yes. If the pigeon is startled, it makes a whistling sound when it flies off. This sound warns other pigeons in the flock that there's danger
同义替换：「comments about each type of」↔「found an interesting new study on」，「communicates with」↔「makes a whistling sound」
答案：is found in a variety of locations
原文定位：I found a lot of stuff on the rock pigeons. They're the ones with the widest distribution. Of all the pigeon species, they've been the most successful at adapting to different environments
同义替换：「found in a variety of locations」↔「widest distribution」
答案：avoids the ground
原文定位：In contrast to the rock pigeon, there's a pigeon in the north of Australia, the black-banded pigeon, which is restricted to one very small patch of forest. Another interesting thing about it is that unlike the typical pigeons we see on pavements and roads, it stays way up in the trees in the rainforest
同义替换：「avoids the ground」↔「stays way up in the trees」
答案：feeds on a particular type of plant
原文定位：The Galápagos pigeon, for example, gets all its nutrients from this one kind of cactus that grows on the island where it lives
同义替换：「feeds on a particular type of plant」↔「gets all its nutrients from this one kind of cactus」
答案：is brightly colored
原文定位：You know, I thought pigeons all looked the same, but their plumage is really variable too. The Nicobar pigeon from Indonesia is very attractive. It has beautiful metallic green feathers
同义替换：「is brightly colored」↔「very attractive」
答案：breed more successfully
原文定位：Actually, because the pigeons don't have to spend time looking for food, they have more time to mate and reproduce, and so it results in population explosion
同义替换：「it causes them to」↔「results in」，「breed more successfully」↔「more time to mate and reproduce」
答案：providing homes for the pigeons
原文定位：They built some special nesting places in one of the parks in the city center. They're designed to house the pigeons, so they stop creating nests on buildings
同义替换：「providing homes for」↔「house」
答案：expensive
原文定位：Well, yes. The program does work as a means of controlling the population, but the financial burden on the taxpayer is quite high
同义替换：「expensive」↔「financial burden on the taxpayer is quite high」
答案：educating the public
原文定位：The most successful pigeon control program in recent times was in Basel in Switzerland;And what did they do;Well, the city council found that teaching the public about the negative effects of feeding pigeons was more effective than trapping the pigeons or providing alternative nesting sites for them. These were both methods they'd tried previously
同义替换：「method」↔「program」，「educating the public」↔「teaching the public about the negative effects」
答案：affect our health
原文定位：But I haven't found anything yet on the health risks to humans that urban pigeons pose. Neither have I. Let's look for some information about that and add it
同义替换：「affect our health」↔「health risks to humans」