# Elephants conservation - 科目：雅思听力真题（Part 3） - 考频：高频 - 最近考试：2023.12.2/2019.4.27/2018.12.8Asia - 题目数：8 - 来源页：https://www.yaquan.site/paper/2da284a2-22a4-4757-9763-18cd5aa107fe（在线机考练习与音频请访问该页面） - 数据更新：2026-10-29 ## 题目原文 00:00:00,980 Section three. You are here with two students called Ruth and Edward discussing their assignment about a conservation issue involving elephants in Kenya. First, you have some time to look at the questions twenty-one to twenty-four. 00:00:18,980 Now, listen carefully and answer questions twenty-one to twenty-four. 00:00:25,040 Right, Edward. I've got some notes here for our conservation assignment. I had a look at the research you mentioned in Kenya. I hadn't realized that farmers were having so many problems with elephants eating their crops there. 00:00:40,200 Yes. The trouble is when elephants get into farmers' field and destroy their crops, that has all sorts of other results. 00:00:48,640 I don't suppose the farmers can just get up and go somewhere else. 00:00:53,080 No, but it's a real problem because farmers are shooting the elephants to keep their crops safe, and then the other elephants are affected and become very hostile to humans. But you can see for the farmers, it's not homes and families that have been threatened. 00:01:09,520 And it's understandable that farmers don't feel like supporting elephant conservation if their own livelihood is being destroyed. You feel you have the right to defend your property. 00:01:21,860 Exactly. So I thought for our assignment, we can start with the problem, then introduce the solutions they've been experimenting with. 00:01:31,000 So now we get onto the bees. I never thought elephants would be afraid of bees, but I suppose even if you're as big as an elephant, a bee sting can still hurt. 00:01:43,840 Well, I think it depends. Bees can't sting through the thick skin on an adult elephant's body, but they target the sensitive areas, like near the eyes. 00:01:54,080 Oh, that must really hurt. And I heard they get right inside the elephant's trunk and sting there. 00:02:01,420 Yes. And then there are the baby elephants, the calves, which have thinner skin, so they can be really badly affected, especially if they get attacked by a whole swarm of bees. 00:02:13,880 So elephants with babies may be threatened by bees even if they don't get stung themselves. 00:02:20,650 Hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to read questions twenty-five to thirty. Now listen and answer questions twenty-five to thirty. 00:02:34,320 Okay, so next week we can go on to describe the experiments based on this fear that elephants have of bees. So there was one way. They hung containers full of bees in trees near the farms. 00:02:49,920 And they listened in trees without containers? 00:02:53,120 And they found the elephants trampled down the trees that didn't have any containers. 00:02:58,540 And stayed well away from the ones with the bees in. Okay. So did you read the articles about the experiment where it was done with the audio recording of bees instead of real bees? 00:03:11,180 No. 00:03:12,120 Well, they've got a recording of a swarm of angry bees, and they played it to herds of elephants out in the wild, and they all stopped what they were doing immediately and stood erect with their heads up and their ears extended. 00:03:27,760 They must have been really aware there was danger somewhere. 00:03:31,880 But not the sort of danger that they can face up to and charge, so they dashed off in the opposite direction. They kept turning their heads around. 00:03:41,340 Presumably looking for the swarm of bees which wasn't there. 00:03:45,400 Yes. And researchers tested eighteen different herds of the elephants, and all but one responded in the same way. 00:03:53,980 Maybe that herd just didn't hear it properly. It seems a very small exception to the main finding. 00:04:00,800 I think researchers actually concluded that this particular herd lacked any experience of bees. They've never encountered any, so they weren't afraid of the recording. 00:04:12,060 Right. Oh, so that was the reason. 00:04:15,340 Exactly. But what surprised the researchers was, from the seventeen herds they did take action when they heard the recording, they found almost fifty percent of the herds did this very quickly, within ten seconds of hearing the recording. 00:04:31,860 Ah, that's interesting. 00:04:33,980 Right. So playing the recordings of bees could be a good deterrent to elephants, but it's not all that straightforward, actually. 00:04:43,220 Yes. You've got to have the electricity to run the machinery. 00:04:47,640 No, that's okay. It can run on batteries. But the whole thing's quite difficult for electrical outlet, which might be easy. And then someone's got to set it all out and make sure it's working. That's not difficult, but it's really a job. 00:05:03,910 They're trying other methods as well, like electric fences, to keep the elephants away from the crops. They haven't had much success. But when they hang cowbells on the fences, that seemed to scare them off. 00:05:17,400 Yes. I've read they tried chili peppers as a deterrent too, but that didn't scare the elephants at all. 00:05:25,060 Right. So I think we've got plenty of information. ## 题目与答案 ### 21-22. 21-22 What are the TWO results happened as elephants stepping on farmer's field? 21-22 What are the TWO results happened as elephants stepping on farmer's field? - farmers moved away from the affected areas - some farmers' homes were destroyed - farmers have less support for elephant conservation - farmers tried to protect their families - elephants became aggressive towards the farmers **答案**：farmers have less support for elephant conservation,elephants became aggressive towards the farmers 原文定位：farmers are shooting the elephants to keep their crops safe, and then the other elephants are affected and become very hostile to humans;it's understandable that farmers don't feel like supporting elephant conservation if their own livelihood is being destroyed 同义替换：「stepping on」↔「destroy」；「aggressive」↔「hostile」；「less」↔「don't feel like」 ### 23-24. 23-24 What TWO impacts could be made by bees to elephants? 23-24 What TWO impacts could be made by bees to elephants? - they can hurt the skin of the adult elephants - they like to attack the sensitive parts of the elephants - elephants are not afraid of bees - young elephants are affected negatively - they have little effect on elephants **答案**：they like to attack the sensitive parts of the elephants,young elephants are affected negatively 原文定位：Bees can't sting through the thick skin on an adult elephant's body, but they target the sensitive areas;the baby elephants, the calves, which have thinner skin, so they can be really badly affected 同义替换：「attack」↔「target」；「parts」↔「areas」；「young」↔「baby」；「negatively」↔「badly」 ### 25. 25 What is result of the experiment of hanging a container of bees by the farms? 25 What is result of the experiment of hanging a container of bees by the farms? - the trees with bees were trampled down by elephants - the elephants started to look for the trees with bees - it can be used for protecting farmer's crops **答案**：the trees with bees were trampled down by elephants 原文定位：They hung containers full of bees in trees near the farms;And they listened in trees without containers;And they found the elephants trampled down the trees that didn't have any containers;And stayed well away from the ones with the bees in 同义替换：「protecting」↔「stayed well away from」 ### 26. 26 How did the elephants respond to the audio recording of bees? 26 How did the elephants respond to the audio recording of bees? - they were not aware of the danger - they ran away quickly and kept looking back - they stopped and looked for the source of the sound **答案**：they ran away quickly and kept looking back 原文定位：they dashed off in the opposite direction. They kept turning their heads around 同义替换：「ran away quickly」↔「dashed off」；「kept looking back」↔「kept turning their heads around」 ### 27. 27 The reason why one herd of elephants didn't run away 27 The reason why one herd of elephants didn't run away - they didn't hear the sound clear - they never had the experience before - they didn't pay attention to the recording **答案**：they never had the experience before 原文定位：this particular herd lacked any experience of bees. They've never encountered any, so they weren't afraid of the recording 同义替换：「didn't run away」↔「weren't afraid of the recording」；「never had」↔「lacked」 ### 28. 28 What surprised the researchers when elephants heard the recording? 28 What surprised the researchers when elephants heard the recording? - some elephants reacted to it immediately - they were scared for only 10 seconds - most elephants didn't take any action **答案**：some elephants reacted to it immediately 原文定位：what surprised the researchers was;almost fifty percent of the herds did this very quickly, within ten seconds of hearing the recording 同义替换：「reacted to it immediately」↔「did this very quickly」 ### 29. 29 What is the drawback of the application of bee recording? 29 What is the drawback of the application of bee recording? - finding suitable power to run the device - training suitable people to set out the device - the battery can't last long time **答案**：finding suitable power to run the device 原文定位：You've got to have the electricity to run the machinery 同义替换：「drawback」↔「not all that straightforward」；「finding suitable power」↔「have got to have the electricity」；「device」↔「machinery」 ### 30. 30 What is the other effective method as a deterrent to elephants? 30 What is the other effective method as a deterrent to elephants? - hanging cowbells - setting up electric fences - growing chili peppers **答案**：hanging cowbells 原文定位：They're trying other methods as well, like electric fences;But when they hang cowbells on the fences, that seemed to scare them off 同义替换：「effective method as a deterrent」↔「seemed to scare them off」；「keep elephants away」↔「scare them off」 --- 以上内容由鸭圈雅思真题库（www.yaquan.site）提供，收录近期雅思考试真题回忆，支持在线机考模式免费练习。