【正文】 et store staff couldn’t help, I did what any mature adult male would do in a crisis. I called my mother. Mom drove to the local feed store in La Porte, Texas, and picked up a 25pound bag of scratch grains. She began shipping the grain in installments. The chicken seemed to appreciate the feed, and I certainly preferred seeing it eat grain. Our care paid off. One morning, Nancy spied an egg on the patio. At the base of the pine tree, where the chicken slept, was a nest containing four more eggs. They were small, but this was it. The blessed event. Soon we could count on five or six eggs a week. After I wrote about the chicken in the New York Times, my mailbag was bursting with letters offering advice on the proper care and feeding of chickens. Disturbed that she did not have a name, fans wrote with suggestions. Vivian has a certain sultry appeal。 refugee。 anxieties2) Part。 swish。 lunge 3) Drove。 in the misty。 have been able to。 eastern。 dark corner。 chewing bambooPassage 3 Can Animals Think?Could species less closely related to man also have a capacity for symbolic munication? In a Honolulu pool, two female dolphins offer a partial answer. “Let’s try a tandem creative,” mands Louis Herman, founder and director of the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory. Two graduate students, at opposite ends of the 50foot tank, municate this message to the animals. First, by holding a finger high in the air, the humans ask the dolphins to pay attention. Then they tap index fingers together, the gesture meaning tandem. Next they throw their arms up in an expansive gesture that signifies creative. The dolphins have just been told, “Do something creative together.” The animals submerge in the sixfootdeep water before plunging back into the pool. The trainers applaud, and their flippered pupils squeak with pleasure. The dolphins understand even more plex signlanguage mands. They prehend both the meanings of the words and how word order changes meanings. They also seem to retain a mental image of an object whether they are still looking at it or not. Thus, dolphins can accurately report whether a ball or hoop is in the pool by touching their snouts to YES and NO paddles (表示“是”和“不是”的槳形板) placed elsewhere in the water. Having such skills, they conceivably could be trained as lifeguards to save the drowning upon mand. “If you accept that words and word order are core features of human language,” says Herman, “then we have shown that the dolphins also account for these two features within the limits of their sign language.” Animal Behaviorist Ronald Schusterman, of California State University at Hayward, takes a more skeptical view. He maintains that before anyone can say an animal is speaking, he had better determine whether the beast is capable of the kind of abstract thinking that underlies speech. At the University of California’s Long Marine Laboratory in Santa Cruz, Schusterman set out to find whether an eightyearold sea lion called Rio could understand logical relationships between symbols presented on poster boards. For instance, by rewarding Rio selectively, he taught her that a symbol looking like a mug had the same meaning as one that looked like a watch. Then she was taught that the watch symbol was equivalent to a third symbol that looked like a bomb. Could Rio make the jump to equate the mug to the bomb? Rio started the test by choosing between two of these symbols on a scoreboard next to her tank. She was then presented other symbolsone from the original threesome, the second new to herand asked which was equivalent to the one she had chosen earlier. In one test she answered correctly 24 out of 28 times, a performance that to Schusterman demonstrates at least some of the cognitive skills required for language. (467)Task 1 Listen to the passage once and choose the best answer to each question you have heard.1) How many experiments are mentioned in this passage?2) Who is Louis Herman?3) What are the three symbols Ronald Schusterman used in teaching Rio? 4) In one test, how many correct answers are given by Rio?5) According to the passage, which statement is NOT correct?Task 2 Listen to the passage again and write T (true) or F (false) for each statement you have heard. 1) Two male dolphins were tested by Louis Herman and his two graduate students.2) Dolphins can accurately report whether a ball or hoop is in the pool. 3) Dolphins can be trained as lifeguards to save the drowning upon mand. 4) To Schusterman, the two dolphins’ performance demonstrates at least some of the cognitive skills required for language.5) Rio is an eightyearold female dolphin. Reference Key to TasksTask 11) b 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) aTask 21) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) FUnit 3 What makes you happy?Part I AudioVisual Practice(An excerpt from The Devil Wears Prada《時尚女魔頭》) Miranda: Oh, there you are. We need to go over the seating(座位安排), uh, chart for the luncheon. Andy: Okay, Um, yeah, sure. I have it right here. Miranda: By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me. Ok, so, first of all, we need to move Snoop Dogg to my table. Andy: But your table’s full. Miranda: Stephen isn’t ing. Andy: Oh, Stephen is… So I don’t need to fetch Stephen from the airport tomorrow? Miranda: Well, if you speak to him and he decides to rethink the divorce, then, yes, fetch away. You are very fetching(迷人的), so go fetch. And then when we get back to New York, we need to contact, um… Leslie to see what she can do to minimize the press on all this. Another divorce splashed across page six (美國報紙的第六版一般為娛樂版). I can just imagine what they’re gonna write about me. The Dragon Lady, careerobsessed（沉溺于工作的女強(qiáng)人）. Snow Queen drives away another Mr. Priestly. Rupert Murdoch（默多克，媒體大亨）should cut me a check for all the papers I sell for him. Anyway, I don’t… I don’t really care what anybody writes a