教材文本Unit 4 Listening Task(Workbook)

Unit 4 Wildlife Protection(Workbook)LISTENING TASKHu Xiao is interviewing Alice Jones, a volunteer for the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRRC), about her work.1 Look at the pictures and predict what the listening will be about. Then listen once all the way through and see if you were right.2 Listen to Part A again and then write down what is the most difficult part of the work according to Alice._3 Go over the following passage guessing the meaning of the unknown words. Listen to Part A once more and fill in the blanks. Write one word for each blank. Feathers (羽毛) are like _ to keep out _. Oil that _ on the water makes their feathers _ _ and makes the birds skin (皮肤) _. When birds try to remove the oil with their beaks (嘴), they _ _ _ and _ _.4 Listen to Part B again and write down the two steps the IBRRC usually takes to help those birds.Step 1: _.Step 2: _.Suggested answer to Exercise 2：Its saving wild birds covered in oil. Answer key for Exercise 3：raincoats, cold, water, flows, stick, together, get, cold, may, eat, oil, get, sickSuggested answers to Exercise 4：Step1：We comfort the birds. Step2：We clean the birds. LISTENING TEXTSAVING WILD BIRDSPart A：two problemsHu Xiao is a senior high student who shows a great interest in wildlife protection. Today he has got a good chance to interview a volunteer, Alice Brown, from IBRRC.HX：Hello Alice. Im so interested in your work saving birds! What do you think is the most difficult pan of your work?AB：Well I suppose its saving wild birds covered in oil. Thats the most difficult of all. HX：How does that happen?AB：The oil comes from boats. It floats on the water and covers the birds feathers when they swim through it. HX：That sounds terrible. What do you do about it?AB：The first thing we do is make sure the bird hasnt eaten too much oil. When a birds covered in oil, it tries to clean itself with its beak. As it does so, the bird eats some oil and becomes sick. HX：Oh dear! Do the birds always die?AB：Sometimes but we try to save them. Birds use their feathers like a raincoat to keep out cold water. When feathers are covered in oil, they stick together and a birds skin gets cold in the water. So without help the bird would die of cold!Part B：the solutionHX：What do you do with those birds？AB：First, we comfort a bird by feeding it and keeping it warm. Then we clean it. We rub the bird very carefully. We use warm water and a little soap and work quickly as the birds hate being touched. HX：Is this a difficult job?AB：Yes, because its very important to do the job quickly. HX：What happens after that?AB：The birds are kept warm and given a rest. HX：I suppose after that they want to touch their feathers with their beaks. AB：Yes, they do. Birds produce a natural o