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1、Module 6 Animals in Danger Section Introduction & Reading-Pre-reading Many animals are being endangered or at the edge of disappearing. The following four species are the most endangered animals in the world.Today white elephants are very rare. The white elephant is a native of Southeast Asia La
2、os, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. The last white elephant in Burma was seen in 1961.Elephants represent power and peace. To Americans, a white elephant is a metaphor (隐喻) for a worthless object. To the people of Thailand, a white elephant is regarded as sacred (神圣的)The Tibetan antelope is prized f
3、or the fur around its throat. Experts guess that there are 75,000 to 100,000 Tibetan antelopes left and that as many as 20,000 a year are killed in China alone.There are five species of rhinos, two African species and three Asian species. The African species are the white and black rhinos. Both spec
4、ies have two horns. Asian rhinos each have one horn. Rhinos rank among the most endangered species on Earth. Valued for their horns, they face a serious threat from poaching.Chinese scientists find it hard to explain how the population of Davids deer, known as Milu deer among Chinese, bounced back a
5、fter dying out in China. The Dafeng Nature Reserve in Jiangsu Province introduced 64 Davids deer in 1993 and 1994, and the population has grown to 450 today.Section_Introduction_&_Reading_Prereading原文呈现 读文清障Saving the AntelopesOn a freezing cold day in January 1994, Jiesang Suonandajie found what he
6、 was looking for a group of poachers who were killing the endangered Tibetan antelope. Jiesang knew he had to move quickly. He shouted to the poachers to put down their guns. Although surprised， the poachers had an advantage there were more of them. In the battlewhich followed Jiesang was shot and k
7、illed. When his frozen body was found hours later, he was still holding his gun. He had given his life to save the Tibetan antelope.antelope/ntIlp/n.(藏)羚羊freezing adj.极冷的；冰冻的，freezing cold(extremely cold)极度寒冷，具体的某一天前要用介词on。poacher/pt/n.盗猎者；偷猎者endanger/IndeInd/vt.使处于险境；危及endangered adj.(生命等)有(灭绝)危险的p
8、ut down放下；写下；镇压Although surprised为省略的让步状语从句，补全应为Although they were surprised。battle/btl/n.战斗which followed为定语从句，修饰先行词the battle。frozen adj.冻僵的，冰冷的give ones life to do sth.为做某事献出生命拯救藏羚羊第1段译文1994年1月一个滴水成冰的寒冷日子，杰桑索南达杰发现了他一直在寻找的目标正在猎杀濒临灭绝的藏羚羊的一群偷猎者。杰桑知道，他必须迅速行动。他大声喊叫着让偷猎者放下他们的枪。偷猎者虽然感到惊慌，但他们占着人多的优势。在接下来
9、的枪战中，杰桑被击中身亡。几个小时后，当人们发现他冻僵的尸体时，他仍然握着枪。他为拯救藏羚羊献出了生命。At the beginning of the twentieth century there were millions of antelopes on the QinghaiTibetan Plateau. By the 1990s the number had fallen to about 50,000. The reason is simple: the wool of the Tibetan antelope is the most expensive in the world.
10、 It is soft, light, and warm the ideal coat for an animal which has to survive at high altitudes. A shawlmade from the wool (known as “shahtoosh”， or “king of wools” in Persian) can sell for five thousand dollars. For poachers the profits can be huge.at the beginning of在的开始plateau/plt/n.高原the Qingha
11、iTibetan Plateau青藏高原by the 1990s“到20世纪90年代”，常与过去完成时态连用。fall to下降到，fall by下降了ideal/aIdIl/adj.理想的shawl/l/n.披肩过去分词短语made from the wool作定语，修饰a shawl，相当于which is made from the wool。profit n利润；益处，作“利润”讲时，用huge/large或small修饰。 第2段译文20世纪初期，青藏高原上有数百万只藏羚羊。截止到20世纪90年代，藏羚羊的数目下降到了大约5万只。原因很简单：藏羚羊的毛是世界上最昂贵的毛。它又软又轻又
12、暖和，是高海拔地区动物赖以生存的理想皮毛。一条藏羚羊毛织成的披肩(名为“沙图什”，即波斯语中的“众毛之王”)，能卖到5 000美元。这对偷猎者来说利润是丰厚的。Often working at night， the poachers shoot whole herds of antelopes at a time， leaving only the babies, whose wool is not worth so much. The animals are skinned on the spot and the wool taken to India, where it is made i
13、nto the shawls. From there, it is exported to rich countries in North America and Europe. The business is completely illegal there has been a ban on the trade since 1975. But in the 1990s the shawls came into fashion among rich people. A police raid on a shop in London found 138 shawls. About 1,000
14、antelopes or 2 per cent of the worlds population had been killed to make them.现在分词短语working at night作伴随状语。herd/hd/n.牧群；兽群a herd of一群；herds of一群群at a time一次，at one time从前，曾经worth/w/adj.值钱be (well) worth doing .(很)值得做现在分词短语leaving only the babies作结果状语；whose引导非限制性定语从句，修饰the babies。skin/skIn/vt.剥皮；去皮(sk
15、inned，skinned)spot/spt/n.(某事发生的)准确地点；现场on the spot当场where .为非限制性定语从句，修饰India。export v出口，(反义)import v进口a ban on表示“方面的禁令”。come into fashion成为时尚；开始流行起来raid/reId/n.&vt.(警方的)突击搜查population n这里指“藏羚羊的总数目”。 第3段译文那些偷猎者常常在夜里出动，一次就捕杀掉整群的藏羚羊，只留下那些毛不那么值钱的幼崽。那些被猎杀的藏羚羊被就地剥皮，羊毛被运送到印度，在那里被制成披肩。然后出口到北美和欧洲的富裕国家。这种贸易是完全违法的自1975年以来一直被禁止。但是到了20世纪90年代，这种藏羚羊毛披肩在有钱人中间流行开来，成为时尚。在伦敦，警察在对一家商店的一次突击搜查中竟发现了138条披肩。(这就意味着)大约1 000只藏羚羊或者全球总数的2%被猎杀来做这些披肩。In the 1990s the Chinese government began to take an active part in protecting the antelopes in the
