Test 1 Reading

Passage 1

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• make a go of 成功
• nocturnal adj. (动物)夜间活动的
• mass extinction 大规模灭绝
• coin vt. 创造；捏造
• scrape a living 勉强够维持生活
  • scrape /skreɪp/ vt. 设法得到；刮，擦
• emerge into 出现/显露在…
• substantial /səbˈstænʃl/ 大量的，可观的
• manoeuvre vt. 熟练而巧妙地操控
• uncanny adj. 超人的；不寻常的
• prohibitive (指价格等)负担不起的
  • n. 禁止
• sensation n. 感觉，感受，知觉
• phantom adj. 幻觉的；幽灵的；
  • phantom limb 幻肢

Track

• 2 how early mammals avoided dying out
  • MATCHING：精度首末句，泛读其它句子
  • ancestors = early mammals
  • survive = avoid dying out
  • 错误原因：定位问题，段落不一定只使用一次
  • 原文：In the time when the dinosaurs dominated the daytime economy, our mammalian ancestors probably only managed to survive at all because …
• The ability actually comes from perceiving 7 echoes / obstacles through the ears.
  • 填空题
  • perceive /pərˈsiːv/ vt. 察觉，感觉；理解；认知
    • 相当于原文的 sense
  • 原文：The sensation of facial
• 13 The word 'echolocation' was first used by someone working as a zoologist.
  • 完成句子
  • 词汇和题目
  • working as a 作为一名
    • My son is working as a teacher. 我的儿子是当老师的。
  • coin vt. 创造；捏造
  • 原文：The American zoologist Donald Griffin, who was largely responsible for the discovery of sonar in bats, coined the term "echolocation" to cover both sonar and radar, whether used by animals or by human instruments.