美国英语听力80篇2 Lesson32

[00:07.47]On March Third, Keiko the whale pushed open a door and swam out of his floating cage.
[00:15.07]In doing so, he gained the most freedom he has known since he was a baby.
[00:21.11]He can now move around in all of Klettsvik Bay, in the Westman Islands off Iceland.
[00:28.16]The Atlantic Ocean bay is the size of about twenty-two soccer,football fields.
[00:35.50]It has land on three sides and the open ocean on the fourth.
[00:40.36]Barriers keep Keiko from going into the ocean.
[00:44.43]But the bay gives him far more space than his last home, which was a floating holding pen.
[00:51.54]Keiko's new world has a natural shoreline and natural bottom with rocks.
[00:57.57]Other sea creatures live in the bay.
[01:00.55]The release¹ of Keiko into Klettsvik Bay is part of the first attempt ever
[01:06.66]to return a killer² whale to the wild after years in captivity³.
[01:12.15]His owner, the Ocean Futures⁴ Society,wants to increase scientific knowledge of the social activities of Orc whales.
[01:21.97]Orcs are the black and white mammals sometimes called killer whales.
[01:28.66]But there is no evidence that they have attacked humans.
[01:32.32]They probably got their name because they are among the best hunters in the oceans.
[01:38.01]Keiko brought pleasure to many people when he played Willy the whale in the 1993 movie, "Free Willy. "
[01:47.28]He also appeared in a second movie about Willy.
[01:51.57]Keiko became famous.
[01:53.74]But he was living in bad conditions in an amusement park in Mexico.
[01:59.35]His health was poor.
[02:01.73]Some experts said he would never recover enough to live in the cold ocean waters where Orcs normally⁵ swim.
[02:10.19]It took years, but Keiko has proved those experts wrong.
[02:15.24]Keiko had human help in returning to his home waters.
[02:21.40]People from all over the world made it possible for Keiko to be released⁶ into the Atlantic Ocean bay.
[02:30.23]The organization, Ocean Futures Society, is training him to survive total freedom in the ocean.
[02:38.35]The society was formed last year.
[02:42.25]It joined a Keiko support group, the Free Willy Foundation⁷, with the Jean-Michel Costeau Institute.
[02:50.19]Jean-Michel Costeau is a leading environmentalist and ocean expert.
[02:55.99]The new organization was established to protect the oceans and the creatures who live there.
[03:03.20]Keiko the Orc probably started life very near the place where he is today.
[03:09.62]He was born in about 1978 in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland.
[03:16.60]While still a baby he was captured⁸ in fishermen's equipment.
[03:21.25]He was taken to an aquarium⁹ in Iceland so people could see him.
[03:26.65]At age four or five he began training as a performing whale.
[03:31.83]He did tricks for the public at a park in Ontario, Canada.
[03:37.05]There he developed skin problems caused by a virus. The sores on his skin remained for years.
[03:45.57]The Canadian park sold Keiko to an amusement park in Mexico City in 1985.
[03:53.38]There his keepers would throw playthings at the whale which he would return to them.
[04:00.30]He ate dead fish provided¹⁰ by his keepers.
[04:03.96]Representatives of Warner Brothers film studios saw Keiko perform.
[04:11.43]They chose him to appear as Willy in "Free Willy."
[04:16.34]The story is about a young boy who saves an Orca whale from a sad life in an amusement park.
[04:23.68]The public loved the movie.
[04:26.34]Keiko became well known.
[04:29.01]Yet the actor whale was not living a good life.
[04:32.85]He was extremely thin.
[04:35.28]The water in his container pool in Mexico was not seawater.
[04:41.00]It was too warm for an Orc, and it did not cover his skin. His sores were getting worse.
[04:48.81]His teeth were broken from biting the edges of his pool.
[04:52.88]He acted sad.
[04:55.24]Luckily, a story in a magazine told the public about Keiko's living conditions.
[05:03.07]Warner .Brothers and an American businessman gave 4,000,000 dollars to establish the Free Willy Foundation.
[05:11.93]Its goal was to return Keiko to the sea.
[05:15.64]An animal protection group, the Humane¹¹ Society of the United States, also gave a million dollars.
[05:23.53]A second film about Willy was produced as a video.
[05:28.70]Each video contained a request to send money to move Keiko to a better home.
[05:36.22]Children and adults from all over the world answered the appeals.
[05:41.68]The Mexican amusement park said it would give Keiko to the people wanting to help him.
[05:48.73]By 1996, there was enough money to move the whale to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
[05:56.60]The special zoo for creatures that live in the water is on the Pacific Ocean in the northwest United States.
[06:05.04]Keiko now lived in a pool of ocean water.
[06:10.29]It was built especially for him. Many animal doctors worked to improve his health.
[06:17.42]Keiko gained more than one-half a ton during his first year in Oregon.                      "
[06:23.27]By the next year live fish were placed in his pool.
[06:27.89]The goal was to help Keiko learn to catch and eat live fish, like a normal Orc.
[06:35.83]His skin sores improved.
[06:38.08]Finally, they disappeared.
[06:40.67]After eighteen months in Oregon, Keiko had gained more than a ton.
[06:47.04]He had learned¹² to eat live fish.
[06:49.94]The Free Willy Foundation decided¹³ he was ready for a return to the icy ocean where he was born.
[06:58.17]The next step for Keiko was the move to Iceland.

1 release   

vt.发布，发表，发行；释放，放开

参考例句：

• After my examination I had a feeling of release.考完试后我有如释重负之感。
• This medicine will give you release from pain.这药吃后会解除你的疼痛。

2 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

3 captivity   

n.囚禁；被俘；束缚

参考例句：

• A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
• He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。

4 futures   

n.期货，期货交易

参考例句：

• He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
• Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。

5 normally   

adv.正常地，通常地

参考例句：

• I normally do all my shopping on Saturdays.我通常在星期六买东西。
• My pulse beats normally.我脉搏正常。

6 released   

v.释放( release的过去式和过去分词 )；放开；发布；发行

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
• With hindsight it is easy to say they should not have released him. 事后才说他们本不应该释放他，这倒容易。

7 foundation   

n.[pl.]地基；基础；基金会；建立，创办

参考例句：

• The foundation of the university took place 600 years ago.这所大学是600年前创办的。
• The Foundation gives money to help artists.那家基金会捐款帮助艺术家。

8 captured   

俘获( capture的过去式和过去分词 )； 夺取； 夺得； 引起（注意、想像、兴趣）

参考例句：

• Allied troops captured over 300 enemy soldiers. 盟军俘虏了300多名敌方士兵。
• Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。

9 aquarium   

n.水族馆，养鱼池，玻璃缸

参考例句：

• The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.我第一次看见海豹是在水族馆里。
• I'm going to the aquarium with my parents this Sunday.这个星期天，我要和父母一起到水族馆去。

10 provided   

conj.假如，若是；adj.预备好的，由...供给的

参考例句：

• Provided it's fine we will have a pleasant holiday.如果天气良好，我们的假日将过得非常愉快。
• I will come provided that it's not raining tomorrow.如果明天不下雨，我就来。

11 humane   

adj.人道的，富有同情心的

参考例句：

• Is it humane to kill animals for food?宰杀牲畜来吃合乎人道吗？
• Their aim is for a more just and humane society.他们的目标是建立一个更加公正、博爱的社会。

12 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

13 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。