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Unit 4 Wildlife protection HOW DAISY LEARNED TO HELP WILDLIFE戴西如何学会了保护野生动植物Daisy had always longed to help endangered species of wildlife.Daisy常常渴望去帮助濒临灭绝的种类的野生动物。 One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. Where do you 一天她醒来发现一个正在飞行的飞毯在她床边。want to go? it asked. Daisy responded immediately. Id like to see some “你想去哪里？”它问。Daisy立刻回答它。endangered wildlife, she said. Please take me to a distant land where I can “我想去看那些濒危灭绝的动物，”她说。“请带我去那个我可以find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater. At once the carpet flew 找到供给皮毛去制造这件毛衣的动物的一个遥远的地方。”away and took her to Tibet. There Daisy saw an antelope looking sad. It said, 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。Were being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. Our fur is being used to 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make sweaters for people like you. As a result, we are now an endangered 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。species. At that Daisy cried, Im sorry I didnt know that. I wonder what is 然后Daisy哭喊着，“我很抱歉我不知道那些。我想知道什么being done to help you. Flying carpet, please show me a place 可以被做来帮助你们。飞毯，请带我去一个where theres 0some wildlife protection.有一些野生动物保护区的地方。”The flying carpet travelled so fast that next minute they were in Zimbabwe. 飞毯飞得如此的快以至于他们下一分钟就在Zimbabwe。Daisy turned around and found that she was being watched by an elephant. Daisy转来转去然后发现她被一头大象盯着。Have you come to take my photo? it asked.In relief Daisy burst into laughter. “你过来跟我照相了么？”它问。Daisy松了口气突然笑起来。Dont laugh,said the elephant, We used to be an endangered species. “不要笑，大象说，“我们曾经是濒临灭绝的品种。Farmers hunted us without mercy. They said we destroyed their farms, and 农民好不仁慈地猎杀我们。他们说我们破坏了他们的天地money from tourists only went to the large tour companies.So the government 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。decided to help. They allowed tourists to hunt only a certain number of animals 他们允许游客给钱农民然后可以去猎杀确定数量的动物。if they paid the farmers. Now the farmers are happy and our numbers are 现在农民很高兴而且我们的数量在增加。increasing. So good things are being done here to save local wildlife.所以好事情正被做于营救当地的野生动物。”Daisy smiled. Thats good news. It shows the importance of wildlife protection,Daisy微笑了。“那是个好消息。它展示了野生动物保护的重要性，but Id like to help as the WWF suggests. The carpet rose again and almost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at once they were in a thick rainforest. A monkey watched them as it rubbed同一时间他们在一个阴霾的热带雨林。一个猴子看着他们就像它摩擦它自己。itself. What are you doing? asked Daisy. ” Im protecting myself from“你在干什么？”Daisy问。“我在保护自己不受蚊子的伤害，”mosquitoes, it replied. When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body.它回答。“当我找到一只千足虫昆虫，我会在我身上摩擦它。It contains a powerful drug which affects mosquitoes. You should pay 它包涵了一种强大的可以影响蚊子的药物。more attention to the rainforest where I live and appreciate how the animals 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。live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs. （药品）没有雨林，没有动物，没有药物。”Daisy was amazed. Flying carpet, please take me home so I can tell WWF Daisy很惊讶。“飞毯，请带我回家这样我可以联系WWFand we can begin producing this new drug. Monkey, please come and help. 并开始保护这种新的药物。 猴子，请过来帮忙。”The monkey agreed. The carpet flew home. As they landed, things began to 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。disappear. Two minutes later everything had gone - the monkey, too. 两分钟后所有东西都消失了-那只猴子也是。So Daisy was not able to make her new drug. But what an experience! 所以Daisy不能去制造她的新药物。 不过如此的一段经历！She had learned so much! And there was always WWF .她已经学习了那么多东西！而且还有WWF. Reading B ANIMAL EXTINCTION 动物灭绝Many animals have disappeared during the long history of the earth. 在地球漫长的历史中许多动物都消失了。The most famous of these animals are dinosaurs. They lived on the earth 其中最有名的动物是恐龙。 他们几千万年前生活在地球上，tens of millions of years ago, long before humans came into being 远远早于人类的出现， and their future seemed secure at that time. There were many different kinds 在当时他们的未来似乎是安全的。有许多不同种类的恐龙，of dinosaur and a number of them used to live in China. 并且大量的恐龙以前生活在中国。The eggs of twenty - five species have been found in Xixia County, Nanyang, Henan Province. 已经有25种恐龙蛋在河南省南阳市西峡县被发现了。Not long ago a rare new species of bird - like dinosaur was discovered in Chaoyang County, Liaoning Province.不久前一种稀有的像鸟类的恐龙在辽宁省朝阳县被发现。When scientists inspected the bones, they were surprised to find当科学家们考察了骨头，他们惊讶地发现，that these dinosaurs could not only run like the others but also climb trees.这些恐龙不仅可以像其它类恐龙那样跑，而且也能爬树。They learned this from the way the bones were joined together.他们是从骨头的连接方式了解到一点的。Dinosaurs died out suddenly about 65 million years ago. Some scientists 约65万年前恐龙突然灭绝了。 一些科学家think it came after an unexpected incident when a huge rock from space hit the 认为它是突然到来的， 当时一块太空巨石撞击了地球earth and put too much dust into the air. Other think the earth got too hot for 并扬起了太多灰尘遮蔽了天空。也有人认为地球变得太热the dinosaurs to live on any more. Nobody knows for sure why and how 以至于不再适于恐龙生活。没有人确切知道为什么和怎样dinosaurs disappeared from the earth in such a short time.恐龙在这么短的时间从地球上突然消失。We know many other wild plants, animals, insects and birds have died out 我们知道很多其他野生植物，动物，昆虫和鸟类最近已经灭绝。more recently. According to a UN report, some 844 animals and plants have 据联合国报告， 大约844种动植物消失了。disappeared in the last 500 years. The dodo is one of them. It lived on the 在过去的500年 渡渡鸟是其中之一。Island of Mauritius and was a very friendly animal. 它生活在毛里求斯岛，是一个非常友好的动物。Please listen to a story of the dodo and how it disappeared from the earth.请听一个渡渡鸟故事，以及它是如何从地球上消失的。
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