首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
This is the incredible story of a mother’ s journey to keep her family alive. Echo is a wise elephant matriarch in her sixties.
This is the incredible story of a mother’ s journey to keep her family alive. Echo is a wise elephant matriarch in her sixties.
admin
2019-09-27
97
问题
This is the incredible story of a mother’ s journey to keep her family alive. Echo is a wise elephant matriarch in her sixties. She lives in Southern Kenya alongside fifteen hundred other wild African elephants. As the oldest female and head of the family, Echo must guide four generations of her relatives through the cruel famine that follows the failure of the latest rains, protect them from attack by lions, and keep them away from growing conflict with angry Maasai farmers. Observing her as they have for the past four decades are American scientist Cynthia Moss and her team from the Amboseli Trust for Elephants. Echo leads her family out of harm’ s way, steers clear of battling tuskers, prevents clashes with neighbours over water, crops or grazing, and avoids natural calamities like deadly mud traps. As the months pass, she must prevent her family splitting under pressure, and finally bring new babies into the world with the best chance of survival.
In Kenya’ s Amboseli National Park, Echo keeps watch over her large family. The African Elephant Conservation Trust has followed her life for more than 30 years. Echo is sensitive and caring when with her family, but becomes fearless when threatened by animal or man. Her leadership gualities are admirable as she guides her family through danger.
When Echo was first found and studied by the Conservation Trust, she was 23 years old. Having just survived the deaths of the more senior members of the herd, she had adopted a motherly role for seven of her family. Once, when her 10-day-old calf was kidnapped by other elephants, Echo encouraged three adult females from her own herd to help her to track and attack the enemy and successfully rescued the baby. Poachers, hunters, famine and drought have all taken their toll on Echo ’ s extended family, yet thanks to her successful leadership through many difficulties, the herd has now grown to 27 members of different ages.
Meanwhile, Echo has become world famous, thanks to three films about her life and behaviour, by award-winning film-maker Martyn Colbeck. His work has changed public perception of elephants by demonstrating the high level of intelligence and social behaviour of these complex creatures. The respect and interest generated by the films have helped to save this species, which at one time was threatened with extinction. Recent research by the Conservation Trust has also revealed valuable information about birth and death rates and the fact that elephants communicate at a very sophisticated level. They celebrate birth, have lifelong friendships and even mourn the death of family members.
The population in Kenya fell from 130,000 in 1973 to less than 20,000 in 1989 , a loss of 85 %. The reason for this disastrous decline was mainly because elephants were hunted intensively for their ivory tusks. Destruction of habitat made the problem worse.
It isn’t all bad news for African elephants, however. In the Amboseli National Park they have been increasing steadily in numbers. In this protected area of 150 square miles in Southern Kenya, they can live relatively undisturbed in a natural habitat—because the presence of researchers and tourists has kept poachers away and, equally importantly, the local Masai people have supported the project. Unlike other places in Africa, where hunting and poaching still take place, here the elephant family structure is being preserved and the population spans the whole range, from newborn calves to adults as old as Echo.
Questions 66 ~ 70
Answer the following questions with the information given in the passage.
What caused the disastrous decline in Kenya’ s elephant population between 1970s and 1980s?
选项
答案
Intensive elephant hunting for ivory tusks and destruction of habitat.
解析
文章倒数第二段提到,肯尼亚的大象数量灾难性下降的主要原因是大象因其象牙而被大量猎杀以及栖息地的破坏。由此可知本题答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/PLfK777K
本试题收录于:
A类竞赛(研究生)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
A类竞赛(研究生)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
IlivedwithMotherin"alargewhitehousesurroundedbytalltrees.Itwasalongwalktothenearestbuildingsaswewerebey
SomepeoplebelievethatprivatecarsshouldbeencouragedinChina.OthersarguethatprivatecarsshouldbediscouragedinChi
Theabilitytostoreknowledgemakescomputersdifferentfromeveryothermachine______invented.
Hewasabrilliantmusicianasaboy,buthenever______hisearlypromise.
TheTroodosareaofCyprusisonlyanhour’sdrivefromthecoast,sowhynotconsideradaytripupintothemountainsasaref
Feedbackmatters.Whetherwearetryingtofindourwaytoanewfriend’shouse,aimingtoimproveourperformanceonthegolf
ItisveryimportantforstudentswhoarestudyingEnglishasasecondlanguagetoreadsimpleEnglish.Somestudentsmaynotli
A、Haveagoodrest.B、Reviewhislessons.C、Goonwiththegame.D、Drawpicturesonthecomputer.B
Duringtheeighteenyearsofthiscareer,FranceBattiatehaswonthe___________ofawideaudienceoutsideItaly.
A、Becausetheyhavehotelsandstores.B、Becausetheyattracttouriststothecity.C、Becausepeoplepaytovisitthemuseums.D
随机试题
患儿,女,1岁,生后3个月起青紫渐加重,活动后气急,查体:生长发育明显落后,口唇、鼻尖、耳垂、指/趾青紫明显,伴杵状指(趾),胸骨左缘闻及Ⅲ级收缩期杂音,肺动脉第二音减弱。诊断为法洛四联症。该患儿应该采取的体位是
腹腔镜胆囊切除术的适应证是
奶牛,6岁,产犊后3周出现食欲减退,精神沉郁、凝视。呼出气体及尿液有烂苹果味,体温37.5℃,产奶量下降,迅速消瘦。血液学检查最可能降低的指标是
关于当事人能力与当事人适格的概念,下列哪些表述是正确的?(2012年卷三第81题)
银行的表内外资产可分为()。
某企业2009年2月1日收到银行的委托收款通知,如该企业对收款人委托收取的款项需要拒绝付款的应当在()内出具拒绝证明。
现有课程表(课程号,课程名,学分,开课学期,课程性质),课程号为主码。该表数据量较大。设经常要对该表执行类似下面的查询:SELECT*FROM课程表WHERE课程名=’数据库原理’为提高这类查询的执行效率,下列物理设计方案中,正确且最为合
Itiswhatyoudoratherthanwhatyousay______matters.
To:belindacarlos@onestar.comFrom:lloyd@topnet.comSubject:MovieSchedule;Attachment:MovieScheduie.docHiBelinda,Howis
Arewereadyforthelibraryofthefuture?A)Librarianstodaywilltellyoutheirjobisnotsomuchtotakecareofbooks
最新回复
(
0
)