练习材料：
L54-1: Instinct orcleverness?
We have beenbrought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that domore harm than good. We continually wage war on them, for they contaminate ourfood, carry diseases, or devour our crops. They sting or bite withoutprovocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beatagainst our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insectslike spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading aboutthem increases our understanding without dispelling our fears. Knowing that theindustrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent usfrom being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over acarefully prepared picnic lunch. No matter how much we like honey, or how muchwe have read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have ahorror of being stung. Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they areimpossible to erase. At the same time, however, insects are strangelyfascinating.
ˈɪnstɪŋkt ɔː ˈklɛvənɪs?
wiː hæv biːn brɔːt
ʌp tuː fɪər ˈɪnsɛkts. wiː rɪˈgɑːd ðɛm æz ʌnˈnɛsɪsəri ˈkriːʧəz ðæt duː mɔː hɑːm ðæn gʊd. wiː kənˈtɪnjʊəli weɪʤ wɔːr ɒn ðɛm,
fɔː ðeɪ kənˈtæmɪneɪt ˈaʊə fuːd, ˈkæri dɪˈziːzɪz, ɔː dɪˈvaʊər ˈaʊə krɒps. ðeɪ stɪŋ
ɔː baɪt wɪˈðaʊt ˌprɒvəˈkeɪʃən; ðeɪ flaɪ ˌʌnɪnˈvaɪtɪd ˈɪntuː ˈaʊə ruːmz ɒn ˈsʌmə
naɪts, ɔː biːt əˈgɛnst ˈaʊə ˈlaɪtɪd ˈwɪndəʊz. wiː lɪv ɪn drɛd nɒt ˈəʊnli ɒv ʌnˈplɛznt
ˈɪnsɛkts laɪk ˈspaɪdəz ɔː wɒsps, bʌt ɒv kwaɪt ˈhɑːmlɪs wʌnz laɪk mɒθs. ˈriːdɪŋ əˈbaʊt ðɛm ˈɪnkriːsɪz ˈaʊər
ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ wɪˈðaʊt dɪsˈpɛlɪŋ ˈaʊə fɪəz. ˈnəʊɪŋ ðæt ði ɪnˈdʌstrɪəs ænt lɪvz ɪn
ə ˈhaɪli ˈɔːgənaɪzd səˈsaɪəti dʌz ˈnʌθɪŋ tuː prɪˈvɛnt ʌs frɒm ˈbiːɪŋ fɪld wɪð rɪˈvʌlʃən
wɛn wiː faɪnd hɔːdz ɒv ðɛm ˈkrɔːlɪŋ ˈəʊvər ə ˈkeəfli prɪˈpeəd ˈpɪknɪk lʌnʧ. nəʊ
ˈmætə haʊ mʌʧ wiː laɪk ˈhʌni, ɔː haʊ mʌʧ wiː hæv rɛd əˈbaʊt ði ʌnˈkæni sɛns ɒv
dɪˈrɛkʃən wɪʧ biːz pəˈzɛs, wiː hæv ə ˈhɒrər ɒv ˈbiːɪŋ stʌŋ. məʊst ɒv ˈaʊə fɪəz ɑːr ʌnˈriːznəbl, bʌt ðeɪ ɑːr ɪmˈpɒsəbl tuː ɪˈreɪz. æt ðə seɪm taɪm,
haʊˈɛvə, ˈɪnsɛkts ɑː ˈstreɪnʤli ˈfæsɪneɪtɪŋ.
任务配置：L0+L4
知识笔记：
单词：1、instinct：直觉，本能，2、cleverness：聪明，3、wage：工资，薪水，发动，4、contaminate：污染，污蔑，5、sting：蜇，刺，6、provocation：挑衅，触怒，7、dread：恐惧，畏惧，8、wasp：黄蜂，马蜂，9、moth：蛾，飞蛾，10、dispel：打消，祛除，11、revulsion：反感，12、hordes：成群结队，13、crawl：爬行，14、uncanny：不可思议，异乎寻常，不自然的，15、horror：恐怖，恐惧，16、erase：擦除，抹去，17、fascinating：迷人的，
音标：
感悟：慢慢地感觉到难度了，要速度的话，语音语调就会变了
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