词数：334

　　(蜂窝)—either recorded or real—may even prevent elephants from damaging farmers' crops.

　　found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them.Today，Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops.But before she asked farmers to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms，she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.

　　Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder.Then she threw a stone into the beehive，which burst into life.Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down.Next，Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.

　　From a distance，Lucy switched on the pre－recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera.Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds.Out of a total of 17 groupsder them.When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families

　　Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times.She hasn't tested enough groups yet to know，but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers.She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.

【（五年高考）2016届高考英语专题复习：专题13 阅读理解（全国通用）】相关文章：

★ 2017届高考英语二轮复习课时训练：5（含解析）

★ 【北师大版】2014届高考英语一轮复习指导课时作业：Unit 5 B卷 Word版含解析

★ 重庆市2014高考英语阅读理解一轮（精品）训练题（10）附答案

★ 湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (66)

★ 【北师大版】2014届高考英语一轮复习指导课时作业：Unit 4 A卷 Word版含解析

★ 2017届高考英语二轮复习课时训练：8（含解析）

★ 重庆市2014高考英语阅读理解一轮（精品）训练题（1）附答案

★ 【三维设计】2017届高考英语（江苏专用）二轮复习阅读理解解题技法示范课件：1

★ 2014届高考英语一轮复习必修3参考答案（外研版）

★ 【北师大版】2014届高考英语一轮复习指导课时作业：Unit 11 B卷 Word版含解析