练习材料：

L54-1: Instinct orcleverness?

We have beenbrought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that domore harm than good. We continually wage war on them, for they contaminate ourfood, carry diseases, or devour our crops. They sting or bite withoutprovocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beatagainst our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insectslike spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading aboutthem increases our understanding without dispelling our fears. Knowing that theindustrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent usfrom being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over acarefully prepared picnic lunch. No matter how much we like honey, or how muchwe have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have ahorror of being stung. Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they areimpossible to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangelyfascinating.

ˈɪnstɪŋkt ɔː ˈklɛvənəs?

wiː hæv biːn brɔːt

ʌp tuː fɪər ˈɪnsɛkts. wiː rɪˈɡɑːd ðɛm æz ʌnˈnɛsɪsəri ˈkriːʧəz ðæt duː mɔː hɑːm ðæn ɡʊd. wiː kənˈtɪnjuəli weɪʤ wɔːr ɒn ðɛm, fɔː ðeɪ kənˈtæmɪneɪt

ˈaʊə fuːd, ˈkæri dɪˈziːzɪz, ɔː dɪˈvaʊər ˈaʊə krɒps. ðeɪ stɪŋ ɔː baɪt wɪˈðaʊt

ˌprɒvəˈkeɪʃᵊn; ðeɪ flaɪ ˌʌnɪnˈvaɪtɪd ˈɪntuː ˈaʊə ruːmz ɒn ˈsʌmə naɪts, ɔː biːt əˈɡɛnst ˈaʊə ˈlaɪtɪd ˈwɪndəʊz. wiː lɪv ɪn drɛd

nɒt ˈəʊnli ɒv ʌnˈplɛznt ˈɪnsɛkts laɪk ˈspaɪdəz ɔː wɒsps, bʌt ɒv kwaɪt ˈhɑːmləs wʌnz laɪk mɒθs. ˈriːdɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðɛm ˈɪnkriːsɪz

ˈaʊər ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ wɪˈðaʊt dɪsˈpɛlɪŋ ˈaʊə fɪəz. ˈnəʊɪŋ ðæt ði ɪnˈdʌstrɪəs ænt

lɪvz ɪn ə ˈhaɪli ˈɔːɡənaɪzd səˈsaɪəti dʌz ˈnʌθɪŋ tuː prɪˈvɛnt ʌs frɒm ˈbiːɪŋ fɪld wɪð rɪˈvʌlʃᵊn

wɛn wiː faɪnd hɔːdz ɒv ðɛm ˈkrɔːlɪŋ ˈəʊvər ə ˈkeəfli prɪˈpeəd ˈpɪknɪk lʌnʧ. nəʊ

ˈmætə haʊ mʌʧ wiː laɪk ˈhʌni, ɔː haʊ mʌʧ wiː hæv rɛd əˈbaʊt ði ʌnˈkæni sɛns ɒv

daɪˈrɛkʃᵊn wɪʧ biːz pəˈzɛs, wiː hæv ə ˈhɒrər ɒv ˈbiːɪŋ stʌŋ. məʊst ɒv ˈaʊə fɪəzɑːr ʌnˈriːznəbᵊl, bʌt ðeɪ ɑːr ɪmˈpɒsəbᵊl tuː ɪˈreɪz. æt ðə seɪm taɪm,

haʊˈɛvə, ˈɪnsɛkts ɑː ˈstreɪnʤli ˈfæsɪneɪtɪŋ.

任务配置：L0 + L4

知识笔记：

单词：1、insect：昆虫，虫的，2、wage：工资，开始，发动，进行，3、contaminate：污染，弄脏，毒害，4、sting：刺，蜇，叮，5、provocation：挑衅，激怒，6、wasp：黄蜂，7、moth：蛾，飞蛾，8、dispel：驱散，消除，9、revulsion：厌恶，嫌恶，10、horde：部落，一大群人，11、crawl：爬行，匍匐前进，爬泳，12、uncanny：不可思议的，异常的，13、stung：sting的过去式与过去分词，14、erase：擦除，清除，消除

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练习感悟：这篇文章难度还是挺大的，生词多，语速比较快，录了四五遍才达标。