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【盐仓24秋】外研版（2024）英语七年级上册单元主题素养阅读延伸Unit 6 The power of plants Starting out—Developing idea
Mark rubs(揉) his eyes when he prepares warm milk. Like many other people looking after babies, he is also 1 . It is 5:30 am, and he hasn't had much sleep. Mark sits next to the baby elephant, smiles and makes sure she finishes the 2 .
Mark is a keeper(饲养员) from an elephant centre. 3 , many elephants meet problems, so they need help here. For one thing, people kill 4 for their ivory. For another, people build houses in the place where elephants 5 . Hungry elephants walk into villages to look for food. They often cause much damage(破坏), so farmers kill 6 . As a result, adult elephants often leave their babies behind.
When a baby elephant 7 its mother, it's in great danger. This is because it needs its mother's milk for about four years. 8 the milk, the baby hardly has a chance to live. Research shows that elephants, like people, have 9 . If the mother elephant dies, the baby elephant often becomes sad and ill.
The centre's job is to look after these baby elephants and send them back to the10 step by step. First, keepers take turns(轮流) looking after baby elephants 11 they don't want a baby elephant to depend on(依赖) one of the keepers too much. Then keepers take elephants into the forest. This is a(n)12 part because the elephants should learn how to eat in the wild and communicate with others. When an elephant is four and no longer needs 13 , keepers send it back to the wild. This makes elephants become brave and 14 . It often takes them eight to ten years to get used to the wild.
At bedtime, Mark has to lie down and 15 with his baby elephants. For baby elephants, keepers are like their mothers. Mark says that when he leaves the babies, they cry.
A. At times, it may break down. B. Self﹣driving cars began to develop in 2010. C. It might be one of Baidu's self﹣driving cars. D. But self﹣driving cars have their own problems as well. E. And they are more environmentally friendly than regular cars. F. self﹣driving car can be seen everywhere in China. |
Don't be too surprised if you see a car going down the road without a driver in Beijing these days. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Last month. Baidu began to test its self﹣driving cars on open roads in Beijing.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Since then, companies like Tesla. Uber and Baidu have been working to produce and test their own self﹣driving cars.
Self﹣driving cars are safer than regular cars. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} They can remove the stress of driving and allow disabled or blind people to get around more easily.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} In one test. researchers pointed a laser pointer（激光棒） at the car's sensors（传感器） while it was moving. The car mistakenly thought that the laser beam was in its way and slowed down or changed the direction.
The software that is used to direct the cars may not be safe enough. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} When we use our computers or smart phones. they sometimes crash（崩溃） without any reason. But if this happened to a self﹣driving car. the results could be deadly. Improvements to the software could be a solution to this problem.
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