Paragraph 2:
prize: dear
如果要突出原因，则要重复because
wither
horde / colony / column / cluster
were to be found / were found

see / find / congratulate (祝贺) 常和be to 搭配，用于被动语态。
Eg: The boy was found behind the door.
The boy was to be found behind the door.
He was congratulated by his friends.
He was to be congratulated by his friends.
We can’t find him anywhere. / We can find him nowhere.
He is nowhere to be found / seen.

which obtained: to obtain
embark on: set out to do / set about doing
Eg: I immediately set out to do an experiment.

本课的要点内容：even though if failed to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated for twenty-four hours.
kept me fascinated : kept me occupied
bind / bound

背熟：I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the aphids.
making it impossible for sb. to do
Eg: I work hard making it possible to pass the examination.
I prepared dinner carefully, making it possible to please my guests.
They didn’t dare to cross it. / They dared not cross it.

need
Eg: You needn’t come here on Sunday. 助动词
You don’t need to come here on Sunday.　实义动词

in bewilderment: were lost
swarming around
without being albe to do anything about it
unable to do anything about it

背熟：I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given up in despair.
hoping to do: in the hope that

背熟：I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their ingenuity.
I took a beating completely.

be quick to find answer to / a solution to
Eg: Daniel Mendoza was quick to learn.
Ants are quick to find answer to their problem.
L54-04 end 20’16”

L54-05 begin 11’58”
【Vocabulary】P246
Explain the meanings of the ofllowing words as they are used in the passage: contaminate (l.3); devour (l.4); provocation (l.4); dispelling (l.8); revulsion (l.9); pouncing (l.15)
contaminate: make dirty, make impure
contaminate / taint
contaminate / defile
pollute / foul up / poison
devour: eat hungrily
provocation: being make angry
provoke: make angry
dispelling: erasing
dispel: erase
Nothing can dispel our fear.
industrious: hard working
revolsion: dislike
pouncing： jumping at suddenly
pounce on: 猛扑向
Eg: The customs officer pounced on my tiny bottle.(L11)

【Multiple choice questions】
Comprehension
1 We may learn more about the behaviour of insects _____ .
a. and become so fascinated by them that we are no longer moved by them
b. but we are no less likely to lose our irrational fear of them
c. provided they remain unaware of our presence while we observe them
d. as long as they only harm each other and not us
(背熟答案)
rational 理性的 / irrational 没理性的
logical / illogical
reasonable / unreasonable
retional / irrational
outrageous / ridiculous
be likely to do 有可能做
no less likely 可能性不大
we are no less likely to do sth.

2 The ant is an insect which _____ .
a. will eat its way through anything from picnic lunches to aphids
b. lives in a highly organized society which we find disqusting
c. once it has killed its prey, will bear it Home in a triumphal column
d. shows great ingenuity at finding its way round any obstacle in its path

3 Had the peach tree been planted on the opposite side of the house _____ .
a. it might not have survived the severe winters
b. the writer would not have spent days looking at it
c. the ants would have had further to go before reaching it
d. the ants would not have found another route of access to the leaves

4 The reason for the ants’ swarming up and down the tree was that _____ .
a. they collected a kind of honey from the leaves
b. they fed on a kind of honey contraned in the sap of the tree
c. they were milking a kind of honey from the aphids on the leaves
d. they needed to go back to their nest in the branches of the tree
up and down 上上下下 /来来回回
around 来来回回
Clusters of insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves.

Structure
5 By reading about them, we may increase our understanding but _____ dispel our fears. (ll.7-8)
a. we will not b. it does not c. this will not d. not
结合第1题

6 Most of our fears are unreasonable, but we find _____ . (l.12)
a. it impossible to erase them b. that they cannot erase
c. them to erase impossible d. erasing them impossible
背熟题干和答案

7 ---- an experiment which, _____ failure to get rid of the ants, kept me fascinated. (ll.22-23)
a. even though it was b. in spite of the c. despite its d. was a
in spite of / despite / in contempt of / in disregard of

8 _____ long to find an answer to ... (ll.30-31)
a. The ants had not been b. The quick ants had not been
c. The ants had not spent d. It had not taken the ants
it takes sb. or sth. some time to do

Vocabulary
9 Even when we know that the ant is an industrious creature which leads a highly organized life, we cannot _____ being filled with ... (ll.8-10)
a. refuse b. help c. prevent d. lose
can not help doing / can not resist doing

10 ---- we have read about the _____ sense of direction which bee possess ... (l.11)
a. unknown b. mysterious c. infinite d. disabled
uncanny

L54-05 end 11’58”

L54-06 begin 3’11”

11 The tree occasionally produces _____ fruit. (ll.19-20)
a. deliciously fresh b. sweet and juicy c. tender d. exotic
luscious
deliciously fresh 美味的
tender 温柔的，
exotic 未来的

12 I had been completely defeated by the _____ (ll.29-30)
a. speedy swarms b. hungry hordes c. inventive creatures d. ingenuous insects
speedy / swift / rapid / fast / quick/ hasty
ingenuous 天真的，老实的
【Key to Multiple choice questions】
1. B 2. D 3. A 4. C 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. D 9. B 10. B 11. B 12. C