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Unit One

Animal Intelligence

Section A

A Sense of Doom:

Animal Instinct for Disaster

PART I Background Information

1. 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which

occurred at 00:58:53 on December 26, 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra,

Indonesia. The quake itself is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra-Andaman

earthquake.

2. University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii, popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and

university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees

through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training

center, three university centers, four education centers and various other research facilities

distributed across six islands throughout the state of Hawaii in the United States.

3. Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, generally known as

Louisiana State University or LSU, is a public, co-educational, Level l Research University

located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System.

LSU is one of only twenty-one American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant and

space-grant research center. US News and World Report’s ranking of national universities lists

LSU as a Tier 1 institution.

4. University of California-Davis

The University of California, Davis (UCD) is a public research university located in Davis,

California, and one of ten campuses in the University of California system. Commonly referred to

as UC Davis, the school was originally established in 1905 as the University Farm, an extension of

UC Berkeley. UC Davis welcomed its first class in 1908. It was later formally established as a UC

campus by the Regents of the University of California in 1959.

5. Florida State University

Florida State University (commonly referred to as Florida State or FSU) is a space-grant and

sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive

doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined

by the Carnegie Foundation. The university comprises 15 separate colleges and 39 centers,

facilities, labs and institutes that offer more than 300 programs of study, including professional

programs. In 2005 Florida State University’s President launched “Pathways of Excellence”, a

major academic initiative that was proposed by a faculty committee to hire hundreds of new

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faculty to help position FSU for future membership in the Association of American Universities.

6. University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (also referred to as the University of Texas, UT Austin, UT,

or Texas) is a public research university located in Austin, Texas, United States, and is the flagship

institution of The University of Texas System. The main campus is located approximately 1 mile

(1.6 km) from the Texas State Capitol. UT Austin was named one of the original eight Public Ivy

institutions.

7. University of Maryland

The University of Maryland, College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland,

UMD, UMCP, or Maryland) is a public research university located in the city of College Park in

Prince George’s County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the University of

Maryland is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. The university is

considered to be a Public Ivy. With a total enrollment of 36,014 students, Maryland is the largest

university in the state and the largest in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It is a member of the

Association of American Universities and a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference

athletic league.

8. Utrecht University

Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. It is rated as

the best university of the Netherlands, ninth best university in Europe, and 47th best in the world

in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Established on March 26, 1636, it had an

enrollment of 29,082 students in 2008, and employed 8,614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full

professors. In 2004, 358 Ph.D. degrees were awarded and 7,010 scientific articles were published.

The 2008 budget of the university was €715 million.

The university’s motto is “Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos”, which means “Sun of Justice, shine

upon us”.

PART II Language Study

1. A Sense of Doom: Animal Instinct for Disaster (title):

A Strong Feeling of Destruction: The Natural Ability of Animals in Detecting Disaster

instinct: n. [C/U]

1) natural tendency to behave in a particular way that people and animals are born with and that

they obey without knowing why 本能，本性

Ladies have an instinct for carefulness.

认真细致是女性的天性。

It is instinct that makes the female horse bend down and lick its newborn foal.

是本能使母马低下头来舔舐刚出生的小马驹。

2) natural ability to know what to do in a particular situation 直觉

Her first instinct was to shout and get angry with him.

她的第一反应就是大声喊叫并对他发火。

She knew, by instinct, that he would never come back.

她凭直觉知道他再也不会回来了。

All his instincts told him to stay near the car and wait for help.

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