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人与海豚合作捕鱼 Humans, Dolphins Working Together to Fish
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
A fishing community in southern Brazil has an unusual ally(盟友): wild dolphins.
In the ___1___(coast) city of Laguna, scientists have used drones, underwater sound recordings and other tools to track dolphins. The scientists can see how local people and dolphins cooperate and benefit from each other's work. The ___2___( successful) humans and dolphins are skilled at reading each other's body language.
The research ___3___(publish) Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Laguna ___4___(resident) work with wild bottlenose dolphins to catch schools of silver fish called mullet. It is an alliance(联盟) that has been recorded in local newspaper records going back 150 years.
When ___5___ comes to fishing, dolphins and humans have different abilities.
In Laguna, the water is cloudy, so people are unable to see the fish. But the dolphins use sounds to find them. As the dolphins herd the fish toward the coast, the people run into the water ___6___(hold) fish nets. They wait for dolphins to signal ___7___(exact) where fish are – the most common signal is ___8___ locals call ‘a jump,' or a sudden deep dive".
___9___ more closely the people timed casting their net to the dolphins' signals, the more likely they were ___10___(catch) a large amount of fish.
答案:
1.coastal 2.most successful 3.was published 4.residents 5.it
6.holding 7.exactly 8.what 9.The 10.to catch
解析:
1.根据句意"在巴西南部的一个渔村里,野生海豚是一种不寻常的盟友"可知,需要填入形容词,表示"沿海的",故填 coastal 。
2.根据句意"研究表明,当地的居民和海豚合作,相互受益。最成功的人类和海豚都很擅长阅读彼此的身体语言"可知,需要填入形容词的最高级,表示"最成功的",修饰后面的名词,故填successful .
3.根据句意"这项研究周一被发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上"可知,需要填入一般过去时的被动语态,表示"被发表",故填was published 。
4.根据句意"在拉古纳,当地居民与野生瓶鼻海豚合作捕捉一种叫做鳐鱼的银鱼,这个联盟在当地报纸记录中已有150年历史"可知,需要填入复数形式,表示"居民",故填residents 。
5.此处为固定短语,when it comes to译为"当谈到…/当提到…时.”,用于引出新话题或话题的新方面,故填 it 。
6.根据句意"他们跑到水里拿着鱼网等待海豚的信号"可知,需要填入现在分词作后置定语,表示"拿着",故填 holding .
7.根据句意"他们等待海豚发出精确的信号来确定鱼在哪里"可知,需