Thanks to animals
新素养 人与自然:动物与植物 难度:★★★★★ 建议用时:10分钟
你知道吗？人类发展进程中少不了动物的帮忙，那么动物是如何帮助人类进步的呢？
Do you have any ideas how birds and insects fly? Or why birds can fly, but other animals can't? Human beings have long studied nature and its mysteries. Over time they find some amazing ways to use what they have learned. Of course, human beings can't fly. But they can get to the sky by using technology to make flying machines(飞行器).

Some of these ideas for flying machines come from birds and insects. Humans try to copy more animals than only the birds and insects. Today we are able to track a plane from taking off to landing thanks to a system that bats and dolphins use to navigate and hunt.
There are other animals that are useful to people. Bees help people in lots of ways. We have made many useful machines after studying bees. And by imitating nature, we will learn about some other ways in which humans develop technology.
生词卡片
human being 人类
mystery /ˈmɪst(ə)ri/ n. 奥秘
track /træk/ v. 追踪
navigate /ˈnævɪɡeɪt/ v. 导航
imitate /ˈɪmɪteɪt/ v. 模仿
阅读短文,判断正(T)误(F)。
() 1. Animals teach human beings a lot by showing how to learn.
() 2. Human beings learn from animals by studying and imitating.
() 3. People learn to track planes from dolphins and bats.
() 4. Birds are not useful to human beings.
() 5. After learning from birds and insects, people can fly with the help of flying machines now.

多亏了动物们
[参考译文] 你知道鸟和昆虫是怎么飞的吗？或者为什么鸟会飞，而其他动物却不会？人类长期以来一直在研究自然及其奥秘。随着时间的推移，他们发现一些惊人的方法来使用他们所学到的东西。当然，人类不会飞。但他们可以通过使用技术制造飞行器到达天空。
这些关于飞行器的想法中的一些来自鸟和昆虫。人类努力模仿更多的动物，而不仅仅是鸟类和昆虫。如今，多亏了蝙蝠和海豚用来导航和狩猎的系统，我们能够在飞机从起飞到着陆的过程中追踪它。
还有其他对人们有用的动物。蜜蜂在很多方面帮助人们。在研究了蜜蜂之后，我们制造了许多有用的机器。通过模仿自然，我们将了解人类发展技术的其他一些方式。
[答案] 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. T
解析:根据“Of course, human beings can't fly. But they can get to the sky by using technology to make flying machines.”可知，人们可以在飞行器的帮助下飞行。