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新目标（Go for it）版初中英语九年级Unit 9 自主检测（含听力音频）
In the town of Lampang in northern Thailand, there is an unusual group of musicians. They play many different (种类) of music-everything from traditional Thai songs to music by Beethoven. Both children and adults love this group. What makes them so (受欢迎的)? Is it their music? Their looks? Yes, it's both of the things, but it's (也) something else: they're elephants.
These musical elephants started at the TECC (泰国大象保护中心) in Lampang. The TECC protects elephants. It teaches people to understand and love them. And, like many zoos (遍及) the world, the TECC encourages elephants to paint.
Richard Lair (工作) for the TECC. He loves his job there and knows a lot about elephants. He says some of the animals' paintings are very good. However, in fact, elephants (听见) better than they see. And so he had an idea: if elephants are (聪明的) and they have good hearing, maybe they can play music. To test his idea, Lair and a friend started the Thai Elephant Orchestra. During a performance (表演), the elephants play a number of (乐器), including the drums and the xylophone (木琴).
But can elephants really make music properly? "Yes," says Lair. "They are very creative." Humans (鼓励) the animals to play, but the elephants make their own songs；they don't just copy their trainers (或者) other people. There are now CDs of the group's music which make money for the TECC. And the music these artists create is pretty amazing.
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