2009年6月英语四级听力备战-听写训练(23)

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What is intelligence anyway? If life is about _ of a species-----and intelligence is meant to serve that survival-----then we can’t compare with pea-brained sea _, which were here long before us and survived the disaster that wiped out the _. Still, it is comforting to realize that other species besides our own can stand back and _ the world around them, even if their _ are more limited than ours.

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答案：

1. survival

2. turtles

3. dinosaurs¹

4. assess

5. horizons

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译文:智能究竟是什么?如果生命就是讲物种的生存-----而智能是为了生存-----那么我们根本无法与大脑只有豌豆大小的海龟相提并论,海龟早在人类出现很久之前便已存在,并经理了使恐龙灭绝 重大灾难而生存下来.尽管如此,想到除了我们人类,尚有其他物种,即便她们的视野比我们还狭小,却也能退后一步,清醒地申时周围的世界，不由使人深感宽慰.

词组辨析:

Survive:

(1) 幸免于,幸存下来

(2) 比…活得长

survivor:幸存者

surviving:残存的

disaster:灾难

disaster:人为或自然造成的突然损失

misfortune:由于人的失误而造成的不幸

mishap:小以外或小损伤