听力填空

本听力材料来自于老托partb，partc，是公认实施有效的听写材料，对于上手托福时间不长的同学非常适合。我曾经一次短时间备考听力提高了7分也归功老托。希望大家和我一样一定要坚持下来噢。相信坚持学习的同学听力上都会有很大的飞跃！

Nopain, no gain.我们的安排是这样的，第一遍用听力软件精听材料（建议做单句听写，听写的时候不要偷看我给的挖空题），然后按照我给的挖空题填关键词，回复后即可看到听力原文和文章精解，我将把难点和易错点oneby one 分析给大家。

回复填空答案格式如下：1____2____3____...et.al.

Today I want to talk to you about _______ and their nests. You'll recall that biologists divide species of wasps into two groups: _______ and social.
Solitary wasps, as the name ______,do not live together with other wasps. In most species the male and female get together only to mate, and then the female does all the work of building the nest and providing food for the offspring by herself. Solitary wasps usually make nests in the ground and they separate the for individual offspring with bits of grass, stone, or mud, whatever is handy.
What about social wasps? They form a community and work together to build and maintain the nest. A nest begins in the spring when a fertile female, called the queen, builds the first few compartments of the nest and lays eggs. The first offspring are small females that cannot lay eggs. These females, called workers, then build a lot of new _______, and the queen lays more eggs. They also care for the new offspring and defend the nest with their stingers. By the way, only female wasps have stingers.
Most social wasps make nests of paper. The females produce the paper by chewing up plant fibers or old wood. They spread the paper in thin layers to make cells in which the queen lays her eggs. Most of you, I'm sure, have seen these nests suspended from trees. They may also be built underground in abandoned rodent burrows.

答案原文

【填空答案】

1.wasps n. 黄蜂；胡蜂（wasp的复数形式）；马蜂

2.solitary adj. 孤独的；独居的

3.implies v. 意味着（imply的第三人称单数）；蕴含；暗指

4.chambers n. 内庭（chamber的复数）

5.compartments n. [建] 隔间；区划；卧车上的小客房

【听力原文】

Today I want to talk to you about wasps and their nests. You'll recall that biologists divide species of wasps into two groups: solitary and social.
Solitary wasps, as the name implies, do not live together with other wasps. In most species the male and female get together only to mate, and then the female does all the work of building the nest and providing food for the offspring by herself. Solitary wasps usually make nests in the ground and they separate the chambers for individual offspring with bits of grass, stone, or mud, whatever is handy.
What about social wasps? They form a community and work together to build and maintain the nest. A nest begins in the spring when a fertile female, called the queen, builds the first few compartments of the nest and lays eggs. The first offspring are small females that cannot lay eggs. These females, called workers, then build a lot of new compartments, and the queen lays more eggs. They also care for the new offspring and defend the nest with their stingers. By the way, only female wasps have stingers.
Most social wasps make nests of paper. The females produce the paper by chewing up plant fibers or old wood. They spread the paper in thin layers to make cells in which the queen lays her eggs. Most of you, I'm sure, have seen these nests suspended from trees. They may also be built underground in abandoned rodent burrows.

精解译文

【听力精解】

不知道大家一听到wasps是什么反应，反正我想到了wax，还想到了Transformers变形金刚里面我最喜欢的角色大黄蜂，哈哈^_^

今天的托福听力给我们讲了黄蜂一家的故事，他们的分类和生活方式。好多熟悉的词汇吧，但是不经常听到容易反应慢哦，所以要多接受洗礼。mud 是泥；separate chambers指的是蜂窝里面一个一个六角形小格子；workers 在听力中指的是工蜂；fertile female 多产的母蜂=queen；plant fibers 是说植物纤维 ；chewing up这个就是蜂用唾液将植物纤维或老木头咀嚼黏在一起

【参考译文】

今天我想谈谈黄蜂和他们的巢穴。你还记得，生物学家分成两组蜂种：孤立和社会。
孤蜂，顾名思义，不在一起生活与其他蜂。在大多数物种的男性和女性的，扎堆交配，然后雌性巢建设和为后代提供食物自己的所有工作。孤蜂通常在地面筑巢和他们分开个别后代的草，石，或泥，无论是得心应手位商会。
社会黄蜂是什么？他们形成一个社区，共同打造和维护巢。巢开始在春天的时候了肥沃的女性，被称为女王，建立巢前几个车厢和下蛋。第一后代小的女性，不能下蛋。女性，这些所谓的工人，然后建立了很多新的车厢，和王后奠定了更多的鸡蛋。他们还关心新的后代和捍卫其刺的巢。顺便说一下，只有雌蜂有刺。
大多数社会黄蜂纸巢。女性产生咀嚼植物纤维或旧木材纸张。他们散布在薄层的文件，使细胞在女王奠定了她的卵子。我敢肯定，你们中的大多数已暂停从树上看到这些巢。它们也可能被废弃的啮齿类动物的洞穴建在地下。

祝大家每天进步一点点！

AmyLee