高中英语必修二unit4课文听力原文

1.HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WLDLIFE（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. "Where do you want to go?" it asked. Daisy responded immediately. "I'd like to see some endangered wildlife," she said. "Please take me to a distant land where I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater." At once the carpet flew away and took her to Tibet. There Daisy saw an antelope looking sad. It said, "We're being killed 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." At that Daisy cried, "I'm sorry I 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. "Have you come to take my photo?" it asked. In relief Daisy burst into laughter. "Don't laugh,”said the elephant, "We used to be an 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. "That's good news. It shows the importance of 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. "What are you doing?" asked Daisy. ”I’m protecting myself from mosquitoes," it replied. "When I find a 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. "Flying carpet, please take me home so I can tell WWF 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…

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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Zimbabwe。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。“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-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（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。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。根据联合国的一份报告，在过去500年里，有844种动植物消失。渡渡鸟就是其中的一种。它生活在毛里求斯岛上，是一种非常友好的动物。请听一个关于渡渡鸟的故事，看看它是如何从地球上消失的。

The story of the dodo （30页听力）

Once upon a time I lived on the island of Mauritius. I was called “dodo”. There wer e many of us and we were friends with all the other animals on the island.

One day a new animal came to my island. His name was Man, and at first we seemed to be good friends. We went everywhere together and I shared my food

with him. However, I began to wonder why several of my dodo friends had disappeared. Then the number of our species began to decrease quickly. I was so worried that I asked the other animals and they all told me, “Your friends are being killed and eaten by Man while you are hunting for food.” Had Man eaten them? I couldn’t believe it! When I asked Man directly, he seemed surprised. “I haven’t seen the other dodos either.” he said. “Maybe someone else killed them.” I believed him but when more dodos disappeared I set a trap. I went off as if I was going to hunt but instead I hid in the forest and waited. Sure enough Man came along. He

ran after the last of my dodo friends and killed her. I felt so angry that I rushed out

of my hiding place and straight at Man’s spear. He killed me too. After that there were no more dodos in the world. So my motto is: be careful who you trust.

Problem1 （62页workbook听力）

Dear Aunty Gladys,

I am very concerned about the environment, but I also like eating fish very much.

I know some fish species are endangered by too much fishing. I also know that fisherman have to count the number of fish they catch. If they have too many of one species, they have to throw them back into the sea. Please tell me which fish I can eat without hurting any endangered species. Yours,Li Kun

Problem 2

Dear Aunty Gladys,

I am a Bengal tiger and I am very unhappy that so many people want to kill me. I am

a quiet, kind-hearted animal and I like to live alone in my forest. The only animals I kill are those I am going to eat. I can't understand an animal like man who attacks me for no reason. I know I have a beautiful skin, but I am amazed that I should be killed for it. Now I find my habitat is getting smaller and smaller and I cannot miss meeting man. I am frightened. What can I do? Yours,Bengi

Problem 3

Dear Aunty Gladys,

I am a young visitor from China. I am very interested in all the wonderful plants and

animals you have in England. But I’ve noticed that you keep the best animals in zoos and the prettiest plants in the parks.Why are the animals not running around freely in the wild and why are the plants not growing in forests? Yours,Zhao Jing

The Return Of The Milu Deer（65页）

My name is Lin Hui. I like to tell stories about people who work together. What is even better is when countries help each other and build a good friendship. An excellent example of this happened when Britain and China worked together to bring the Milu deer back to China.

Milu deer, a kind of animal with large horns(角), used to be common in China long ago. Like other deer they lived together and ate grass and the soft parts of trees. Milu deer were often killed for food or sport. The Ming and Qing dynasties(朝代) did not protect them and many were killed. That is how the Milu deer disappeared from China.

Luckily before all of them were killed, some were taken to Britain to improve the environment of the beautiful park which belonged to the Duke of Bedford. He liked them so much that he took them from China to Britain. Milu deer liked the cool, wet weather in England and their number increased year by year. As a result, when in 1985 the government of China wanted to bring back the Milu deer, the Duke of Bedford was able to help. The first deer came back to China to the Nanhaizi Milu Park 20 kilometers south of Beijing and the centre in Dafeng, Jiangsu province.

The deer certainly seem happy to be back in China because their number has grown quickly. There are now so many of them that a new park has been opened for them in Hubei Province. At the moment the Milu deer live in centres where they are being well protected and cared for. It is hoped that one day there will be enough animals to let them live in the wild again.

我的名字叫林回。我喜欢讲一些关于和我一起工作的人故事。更好的情况是国家互相帮助,营造一个良好的友谊。比如，英国和中国一起把麋鹿运回中国，就是一个很好的例子。麋鹿，作为一种有角的物种，很久以前就在中国了，这是很平常

的事。像其他鹿类一样，他们都住在一起,吃草和果树的柔嫩部分，比如小树枝。在过去，麋鹿经常为寻找食物而活动。明清时期没有保护他们,因此很多都死了。那就是麋鹿消失在中国的原因。幸运的是,在所有麋鹿都被杀了的情况下,其中一些被送往英国,以改善贝德福德公爵的公园的环境。他喜欢他们,以至于他把他们从中国领到英国来。麋鹿喜欢英格兰凉爽潮湿的天气，并且它们的数量在逐年增长。结果,当1985年中国政府想让麋鹿回来时,贝德福德公爵也非常愿意帮忙。第一个鹿回到中国20公里的天然公园Nanhaizi中心，它位于北京南部,江苏省大丰。那只鹿好像很开心能回到中国,因为他们的数量也在迅速增加。现在有很多的麋鹿,一个在湖北的新公园已经为他们而开启。此刻的麋鹿住在公园中心,在那里他们得到很好的保护和照顾。希望有一天将会有足够多的动物,重新生活在野外。所以，英国通过带回消失在我国故土上的一种动物来帮助了中国。这是一个在这两个国家之间，友谊和理解的很好的例子。

66页听力

Hu Xiao is a senior high school student who shows a great interest in wildlife protection. Today he has got a good chance to interview a volunteer, Alice Brown, from IBRRC.

HX: Hello, Alice. I’m so interested in your work saving birds! What do you think is the most difficult part of your work?

AB: Well ... I suppose it’s saving wild birds covered in oil. That’s the most difficult of all.

HX: How does that happen?

AB: The oil comes from boats. It floats on The waterand covers the birds’feathers when they swim through it.

HX: That sounds terrible. What do you do about it?

AB: The first thing we do is make sure the bird hasn’t eaten too much oil. When a bird’s covered in oil, it tries to clean itself with its beak. As it does so, the bird eats some oil and becomes seak.

HX: Oh dear! Do the birds always die?

AB: Sometimes ... but we try to save them. Birds use their feathers like a raincoat to keep out cold water. When feathers are covered in oil, they stick together and a bird’s kin gets cold in the water. So without help the bird would die of cold !

HX: What do you do with those birds?

AB: First, we comfort a bird by feeding it and keeping it warm. Then we clean it. We rub the bird very carefully. We use warm water and a little soap and work quickly as the birds hate being touched.

HX: Is this a difficult job?

AB: Yes, because it’s very important to do the job quickly.

HX: What happens after that?

AB: The birds are kept warm and given a rest.

HX: I suppose after that they want to touch their feathers with their beaks.

AB: Yes, they do. Birds produce a natural oil in their tails and put this over their feathers until they feel better.

HX: Thank you. I’ve learned a lot.

AB: Not at all. It’s been my pleasure.

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