2024年6月英語六級真題聽力第二套Recording 2原文
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英文原文
Recording 2
錄音2
The genetic code of all one point five million known species of animals and plants living on earth will be mapped to help save species from extinction and boost human health. Scientists hope that cracking the genetic code of plants and animals could help uncover new treatments for infectious diseases, slow aging, improve crops in agriculture, and create new biomaterials. In Britain, organizations including the Natural History Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute have joined forces to sequence Britain's sixty-six thousand species of animals and plants, dubbed the Darwin Tree of Life project. It is expected to take ten years and cost 100 million pounds. Once completed, all the information will be publicly available to researchers.
地球上已知的150萬種動植物的遺傳密碼將被繪制成圖，以幫助拯救瀕臨滅絕的物種并促進(jìn)人類健康?？茖W(xué)家們希望破解動植物遺傳密碼能夠有助于發(fā)現(xiàn)治療傳染病的新方法、延緩衰老、改良農(nóng)作物以及創(chuàng)造新型生物材料。在英國，包括自然歷史博物館、皇家植物園邱園和韋爾科姆桑格研究所等機(jī)構(gòu)已攜手合作，對英國6.6萬種動植物進(jìn)行測序，該項目被稱為“達(dá)爾文生命之樹”項目。預(yù)計該項目將持續(xù)十年，耗資1億英鎊。項目完成后，所有信息都將公開供研究人員使用。
Many scientists believe that earth has now entered the sixth mass extinction, with humans creating a toxic mix of habitat loss, pollution, and climate change, which has already led to the loss of at least 77 species of mammals and 140 types of birds since 1500. It is the biggest loss of species since the dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago. Scientists say that sequencing every species will revolutionize the understanding of biology and evolution, bolster efforts to conserve, as well as protect and restore biodiversity.
許多科學(xué)家認(rèn)為，地球已進(jìn)入第六次物種大滅絕，人類造成的棲息地喪失、污染和氣候變化等有毒因素已導(dǎo)致自1500年以來至少77種哺乳動物和140種鳥類滅絕。這是自6600萬年前恐龍滅絕以來最大的物種滅絕事件。科學(xué)家們說，對每一種物種進(jìn)行測序?qū)氐赘淖儗ι飳W(xué)和進(jìn)化的理解，并加強(qiáng)保護(hù)、保護(hù)和恢復(fù)生物多樣性的努力。
Dr. Tim Littlewood, head of the Life Sciences Department at the Natural History Museum, said, "Whether you are interested in food or disease, the history of how every organism on the planet has adapted to its environment is recorded in its genetic makeup. How you then harness that is dependent on your ability to understand it. We will be using modern methods to get a really good window on the present and the past, and of course, a window on the past gives you a prospective model on the future."
自然歷史博物館生命科學(xué)部負(fù)責(zé)人蒂姆·利特爾伍德博士說：“無論你對食物還是疾病感興趣，地球上每個生物如何適應(yīng)其環(huán)境的歷史都記錄在其遺傳結(jié)構(gòu)中。然后你如何利用這些取決于你的理解能力。我們將使用現(xiàn)代方法，來更好地了解現(xiàn)在和過去，當(dāng)然，了解過去能為你提供一個未來的前瞻性模型?！?/span>
Sir Jim Smith, Director of Science at Wellcome, said, "Try as I might, I can't think of a more exciting, more relevant, more timely, or more internationally inspirational project. Since nineteen seventy, humanity has wiped out sixty percent of animal populations. About twenty-three thousand of eighty thousand species surveyed are approaching extinction. We are in the midst of the sixth great extinction event of life on our planet, which not only threatens wildlife species, but also imperils the global food supply. As scientists, we all realize we desperately need to catalog life on our fragile planet now. I think we're making history."
韋爾科姆科學(xué)總監(jiān)吉姆·史密斯爵士說：“盡管我盡力思考，但我想不出一個比這個更激動人心、更相關(guān)、更及時或更具國際啟發(fā)性的項目。自1970年以來，人類已消滅了60%的動物種群。在調(diào)查的8萬種物種中，約有2.3萬種正瀕臨滅絕。我們正處于地球上生命第六次大滅絕事件的中心，這不僅威脅著野生動物物種，還危及全球糧食供應(yīng)。作為科學(xué)家，我們都意識到，我們現(xiàn)在迫切需要對我們脆弱的地球上的生命進(jìn)行分類。我認(rèn)為我們正在創(chuàng)造歷史。”
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
問題19至21基于你剛剛聽到的錄音。
Question 19: What do scientists hope to do by cracking the genetic code of plants and animals?
問題19：科學(xué)家希望通過破解動植物遺傳密碼來做什么？
Question 20: What do many scientists believe with regard to Earth?
問題20：許多科學(xué)家對地球持什么看法？
Question 21: How does Sir Jim Smith, Director of Science at Wellcome, describe the Darwin Tree of Life project?
問題21：韋爾科姆科學(xué)總監(jiān)吉姆·史密斯爵士是如何描述“達(dá)爾文生命之樹”項目的？
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