北师大初中英语八年级下册 Unit11 43（MP3+LRC）

[00:00.00]Unit 11 Working with Animals

[00:06.12]Lesson 43

[00:08.71]1.3 The cheetah is a beautiful animal.

[00:13.97]It is yellow-brown with black spots.

[00:17.78]Most cheetahs live in Africa.

[00:21.20]The cheetah is the fastest land animal.

[00:25.51]It can run at 70 miles per hour.

[00:30.47]Whales are large animals.

[00:33.72]The blue whale is the largest animal

[00:36.97]on the planet.

[00:38.69]In fact,it is the largest animal

[00:41.79]that has ever existed.

[00:44.67]A bule whale can be 110 feet long

[00:48.95]and can weigh up to 209 tons.

[00:54.61]Giraffes live in Africa,

[00:57.50]south of the Sahara Desert.

[01:00.04]They eat the leaves from trees.

[01:03.59]The giraffe is the tallest animal in the world.

[01:07.97]It is 19 feet tall.

[01:12.08]Stick insects are long and thin.

[01:16.51]They look like the sticks and leaves

[01:19.73]of the plants that they live on.

[01:22.71]They live in hot regions.

[01:25.37]The stick insect is the world's longest insect.

[01:30.12]It can measure 15 inches.

[01:34.33]There are two types of elephants,

[01:37.90]the Indian elephant and the African elephant.

[01:42.15]The African elephant is the heaviest

[01:45.84]land animal on Earth.

[01:48.53]An adult male weighs up to 8 tons.

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