必修二module 6单词 课文及翻译

Module 6 Word listendanger vt. 使……处于险境；危及reserve n. 保护区；保护圈habitat n. 栖息地extinct adj. 灭绝的；绝种的struggle n. 挣扎；斗争wildlife n. 野生生物protect vt. 保护poacher n. 盗猎者；偷猎者antelope n. （藏）羚羊battle n. 战斗plateau n. 高原ideal adj. 理想的shawl n. 披肩herd n. 牧群；兽群worth prep. 值……钱skin vt. 剥皮；去皮spot n. （某事发生的）准确地点；现场raid n. & vt. （警方的）突击搜查confiscate vt. 没收condition n. (-s) 环境；情况meanwhile adv. 同时dealer n. （尤指买卖贵重商品的）商人aim n. 目标；目的reptile n. 爬行动物involve vt. 涉及；包括live adj. 活的lay vt. 产卵；下蛋wonder n. 奇迹insect n. 昆虫mammal n. 哺乳动物bald n. 秃（头）的be concerned about sth. 关心某事；担心某事whale n. 鲸ibis n. 鹮feed on（动物）以……为食brink n. 边缘extinction n. 灭绝；绝种initial n. 首字母stand for 代表branch n. 分支机构；办事处continent n. 大陆；洲focus n. 焦点；集中点energy n. 能源waste vt. 浪费monitor vt. 监测set up 建立；设立Module 6 Tibetan antelope.Jiesang knew he had to move quickly. He shouted to the poachers to put down their guns. Although surprised, the poachers had an advantage –there were more of them. In the battle which followed Jiesang was shot and killed. When his frozen body was found hours later, he was still holding his gun. He had given his life to save the Tibetan antelope. At the beginning of the twentieth century there were millions of antelopes on the Qinghai – Tibetan Plateau. By the 1990s the number had fallen to about 50,000. The season is simple: the wool of the Tibetan antelope is the most expensive in the world. It is soft, light and warm – the ideal coat for an animal which has to survive at high altitudes. A shawl made from the wool (known as “shahtoosh”, or “king of wools” in Persian) can sell for five thousand dollars. For poachers the profits can be huge. Often working at night, the poachers shoot whole herds of antelopes at a time, leaving only the babies, whose wool is not worth so much. The animals are skinned on the spot and the wool taken to India, where it is made into the shawls. From there, it is exported to rich countries in North America and Europe. The business is completely illegal – there has been a ban on the trade since 1975. But in the 1990s the shawls came into fashion among rich people. A police raid on a shop in London found 138 shawls. About 1,000 antelopes –or 2 per cent of the world’s population – had been killed to make them. In the 1990s the Chinese government began to take an active part in protecting the antelopes in the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve –the huge national park on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, which is the main habitat of the antelopes. Over the next ten years about 3,000 poachers were caught and 300 vehicles confiscated. Sometimes there were gunfights, like the one in which Jiesang Suonandajie was killed. But today the governments seems to be winning the battle. The number of poachers has fallen. The small group of officials who work in the reserve are helped by volunteers who come from all over the country, and who are ready for the difficult conditions of life at 5,000 metres. Meanwhile, in those countries where the shawls are sold, police are getting tough with the dealers. International co-operation seems to be working. Since 1997 the antelope population has slowly begun to grow again. WWF The WWF is the world’s largest organization for nature conservation. It was founded in the UK in 1961 and opened an international office in Switzerland in the same year. its aim was to protect the natural habitats of wild animals in danger of extinction. One of the founders, the painter and naturalist Peter Scott, designed the famous panda logo. The initials, WWF, stand for World Wide Fund for Nature. Originally the name was World Wildlife Fund. Today the organization has branches in 90 countries in all five continents. It has thousands of volunteers and more than five million supporters who help by giving money. Since 1985 it has spent more than $1,000 million on 11,000 projects in 130 countries. The focus of attention has changed, too. In the 1980s the WWF became interested in all activities which have an effect on the environment, such as pollution and the way we use energy. The WWF believes that our world has a future only if peole learn to conserve nature and not waster energy. As a result, it started working with governments to introduce environmental education into schools. The WWF has worked with the Chinese government since 1980, when Dr George shaller arrived to work with Chinese scientists on the panda project. For fifteen years WWF China staff had been based in Switzerland but came to China to monitor the project. Then, in 1995, the organization set up an office in Beijing. Today there are more than thirty staff working on twenty rojects all over the country. They include work in forests, energy, and in environmental education for China’s primary and secondary schools as well as saving the panda, of course.。