5. two-day hike:定位词用in the dense forest,听题时亦听到逻辑信号词then,提示答案将至。
6. local hunters: 定位词用空格后面的并列关系词trackers,同时鉴于trackers为复数形式便可预测出答案也为复数名词。另外,此句话中的important在原文中替换为critical。
7. (plush) toys:定位词用resemble,只是这是一个动词,容易同义替换。另外,resemble是一个及物动词,于是判定空格中需要填写名词。此处原文中使用的是词组look like替代了resemble,答案就跟在后面。
8. thick fur:通过副标题appearance的提示便知接着的空格都与tree kangaroo的外表有关,故不难预测出要填写的便是常见的动物外形方面的词。原文中用with替代了having。
9. long claws:同8,预测出答案应为动物的身体部分,定位词用空格之后的climbing。
10. (a) long tail:同8,预测出答案应为动物的身体部分,定位词用空格之后的balancing。其实相信稍微有点生活常识的考生不用听也知道一般动物使用尾巴来保持平衡。
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Elusive Tree Kangaroos
The hard to reach “plush toys” on Papua New Guinea have been outfitted with “Crittercams” for the first time. The breathtaking treetop footage is already solving tree kangaroo mysteries, scientists say.
High in the northern mountains on the island of New Guinea, in the cloud forest lives an elusive animal found nowhere else in the world.
With an endearing face and a thick fur, the Matschies tree kangaroos of Papua New Guinea are only found on the island Huon Penisular and they're endangered. Threats include a growing human population and subsistence hunting.(Q1) Tree kangaroos for a long time have been part of the local diet.
They're difficult to study because of the remoteness of their habitat and they spend most of their lives high in the rainforest canopy,(Q2) 70 to 100 feet above the ground. (Q3)
Just getting to their home isn't easy. First, the area is inaccessible by vehicle, so researchers need a small plane,(Q4)landing on a bumping air strip in the village of Yawan. Then, it’s a two-day hike in the dense forest, (Q5)up and down steep mountain ridges. Even once you get there, they're extremely difficult to find. Local hunters and trackers provide the critical skills to locate these elusive animals.(Q6)
Tree kangaroos spend most of their time high up in the trees, and so we are not able to see what they are doing up there. Tree kangaroos, really hide in a tree. So you might be able to see that the moss on the trees is the very same color as the tree kangaroos themselves. And tree kangaroos tend to hide in the moss. They look like plush toys up in the branches, (Q7)but they're very well-adapted for the cloud forests, with the thick fur (Q8)and then they have the long claws for climbing the trees (Q9)and then they have their long tail for balancing themselves.(Q10) But they can also leap down from the trees onto the ground and not hurt themselves."
When one is spotted, there are no tranquilizer darts or anesthesia used. A hunter will climb the tree the kangaroo is on and coax it to leap to the ground. Below, other hunters clear brush and wait for the moment.
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