海洋生物为了生存，躲避天敌总会采取一些伪装，你知道有哪些吗?你知道在这类话题中经常出现的词汇有哪些吗?本次前程百利小编就来和大家分享一下关于海洋生物的伪装术的一些词汇，希望可以帮助大家拓展托福词汇量，在托福口语考试中取得好成绩!
Now listen to part of a lecture in a biology class.
(Female Professor) Now many sea animals, in order to hide from predators, have, over time, developed different kinds of camouflage to help them blend in with their environment and avoid detection by predators.
Picture the surface of the sea floor, it’s as varied as the land we live on. It’s got peaks and valleys, vegetation, rocky areas, and some sea animals have developed permanent colors or shapes to resemble these environmental features. This camouflage helps to disguise them from predators by enabling them to blend into, uh, a specific part of the sea. For instance, take a kind of fish like the Leafy Sea Dragon, well, the name says it all, it resembles a small green dragon with leaf-like protrusions sticking out like arms. Now because its colors and shapes, it blends in extremely well with green sea plants. So when the Leafy Sea Dragon is swimming through these plants, predators have trouble seeing it. But when it enters other environments without these green plants, its camouflage doesn’t work anymore.
Now other sea animals are difficult to spot anywhere in the sea because their type of camouflage enables them to change color. Take the Cuttlefish, a fish that is closely related to the squid and octopus, unlike Leafy Sea Dragons, Cuttlefish have not developed any particular shape to hide from predators. But, uh, they have a lot more mobility because their camouflage allows them to blend in to any environment, because Cuttlefish have shifting pigments that allow them to change color in a matter of seconds, and, so they can almost instantaneously match their color of their surroundings. If they’re swimming by green sea plants, they’ll turn green. And if they’re swimming over the brown sea floor, they’ll turn brown.
Question:
Using the examples of Leafy Sea Dragon and the Cuttle fish, describe two kinds of camouflage and the benefits they provide.
一.在文章中有一些单词可以帮助我们解题，现在就跟着前程百利小编一起来学习吧!
(1)在文章中有一些生物类的词汇，你知道有哪些吗
1. predator：n. [动] 捕食者;[动] 食肉动物;掠夺者
Rumours of a takeover by Hanson are probably far-fetched, but the company is worried about other predators.
2. camouflage：n. 伪装，掩饰
They were dressed in camouflage and carried automatic rifles.
3. squid：n. 鱿鱼;乌贼;枪乌贼
Add the prawns and squid and cook for 2 minutes.
4. octopus：n. 章鱼
The body of an octopus is composed almost entirely of muscle and skin.
5. pigment：n. [物][生化] 色素;颜料
The Romans used natural pigments on their fabrics and walls.
(2)其它可以帮助我们解题的重点词汇
1. blend：vi. 混合;协调
Blend the butter with the sugar and beat until light and creamy.
2. detection：n. 侦查，探测;
If a bag is flagged by the EDS machine, it would be screened by trace detection.
3. peak：n. 山峰;最高点
The firm has slashed its workforce from a peak of 150,000 in 2000.
4. permanent：adj. 永久的，永恒的;不变的
Heavy drinking can cause permanent damage to the brain.
5. disguise：vt. 掩饰;假装;隐瞒
You'll have to travel in disguise.
6. protrusion：n. 突出;突出物
He grabbed at a protrusion of rock with his right hand.
7. mobility：n. 移动性;机动性
The clear advantage of mobile phones is their mobility - you can take them anywhere.
8. instantaneously：adv. 即刻;突如其来地
Brain activity recordings showed that accumbens shell neurons responded almost instantaneously when the tone was sounded.
二.在生物类话题中还经常出现哪些词汇呢?
1. Darwinism：n. 达尔文学说;达尔文主义;进化论
There were many nations, such as Brazil, where Darwinism led to no political ideology.
2. natural selection：[进化] 自然选择;物竞天择说
Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
3. reptile：adj. 爬虫类的;卑鄙的
The title character of that 2008 animated flop was also some sort of humanoid reptile.
4. herbivore：n. [动] 食草动物
Iguanadon was a bulky herbivore that had conical spikes instead of thumbs, used for defence against predators
5. mammal：n. [脊椎] 哺乳动物
The mammal was trapped on the north bank of the River Humber on Friday
6. hibernate：vi. 过冬;(动物)冬眠;(人等)避寒
Dormice hibernate from October to May.
以上就是前程百利小编要和大家分享的关于动物伪装的一些托福综合口语词汇，希望可以帮助大家了解生物类话题中经常出现的词汇。如果想了解更多备考资料，欢迎登陆前程百利论坛，最后预祝每一位考生都能考出好成绩。
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