【答案】C【核心词汇/短语】killing two birds with one stone:一石二鸟【翻译】人们将那称为一石二鸟。【解析】kill为动词原形;killed为过去分词;killing为现在分词形式/动名词;had killed为过去完成时。call sth. sth.为固定搭配,表示“将某物称为某物”,call后为复合结构,宾语为that,宾补不能用过去分词形...
根据第四段中的 They examined more than 500 birds from 18 different species 可知,D选 正确。 4.D 推理判断题。 根据最后一段中的 Also most of the birds killed by the cats were young.可知,被猫抓住的几乎 都是幼小的鸟。 5.D 主旨大意题。 本文主要介绍了一项最新研究的成果。 【长难句分析】 ...
Disease outbreaks are surprisingly common. Over the past four centuries, the longest stretch of time without a documented outbreak that killed at least 10,000 people was just four years. As bad as these smaller outbreaks are, they’re far less deadly than a COVID-19-level pandemic. In fact...
At least ten people were killed in the crash. 至少有十人在撞车事故中丧生。 牛津词典 There were a lot of people at the party. 有许多人参加聚会。 牛津词典 Many young people are out of work. 很多年轻人失业。 牛津词典 He doesn't care what people think of him. 他不在乎人们怎样看他。 牛...
This all changed in the 16th century when Portuguese(葡萄牙的)sailors first arrived on the island.The birds were so trusting and slow that the sailors called them “dodo”, which means “a stupid person” in Portuguese.Thousands were killed and eaten, and soon the dodo became an important so...
(9)A.traceB.routeC.changeD.proposal(10)A.interactiveB.ecologicalC.productiveD.social(11)A.in terms ofB.because ofC.except forD.in addition to(12)A.depend onB.interact withC.fight againstD.stay away(13)A.inhabitedB.removedC.developedD.killed(14)A.resultB.rangeC.sufferD.date(15)A....
Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands.Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds ...
Evans Hall, which has killed hundreds of birds since students have been monitoring the situation over the past few years. This building has been a known problem since at least 2016, as detailed in this story at the time. Hopefully Yale will be able to retrofit the building with bird safe ...
These birds were once abundant in India—tens of millions of them flew freely throughout the country. But starting in the mid-1990s, they began to disappear. By the early 2000s, their population had dropped by 95 percent. At first, the vultures’ decline was a ...
The spleens of birds killed by the cats were much smaller than those killed in accidents. It means that they were not very healthy. Also most of the birds killed by the cats were young. Of those that died in accidents, half were young and half were adult. So while it is true that ...