Animal rescuer uses drones to save hurt animals无人机拯救受伤动物

2022-01-17湖南罗爱明

疯狂英语·新悦读 2021年12期

湖南罗爱明

动物救助者和电影摄影师道格拉斯·斯隆在自然灾害后使用无人机拯救受伤的动物。

1Animal rescuer and cinematographer(电影摄影师)Douglas Thron's passion for animals began when he was a little kid.“I started rescuing orphaned baby animals,” Thron tells Yahoo Life.“And I wanted to be a wildlife cinematographer.”

2At the time of the Paradise fire in California in 2018,Thron was working as a cinematographer filming a man who was rescuing cats using an infrared(红外线的)handheld camera.The camera used heat to detect the animals at night.Thron and the man talked about how incredible it would be to put one on a drone(无人机)to detect animals more easily.“The animal's body temperature will glow on the screen and you can pick them out amongst the rubble,”explains Thron.

3The first animal Thron ever rescued was a dog in the Bahamas after a category 5 hurricane hit,which “wiped out hundreds of houses”,he says.Thron tested out putting an infrared scope on a drone and found the dog“literally in the middle of the giant debris pile where hundreds of houses had been smashed”,he says. “I flew the drone over and I found him.I was able to rescue him.And nobody claimed him after 30 days,so I adopted him,and he's a super wonderful dog.”

4Thron adds that he's basically been “going non-stop since then”.His TV show,Doug to the Rescue,shows some of his heart-warming animal rescues,including after Hurricane Laura in Louisiana in 2020 and after fires in Northern California and Oregon.Thron also helped rescue koalas after fires destroyed parts of Australia in 2020,using infrared-equipped drones for the first time there to help locate the animals.

5Thron's dream is to one day have an animal rescue ranch where he can train others on flying drones and“hopefully make these infrared drones as popular for rescuing animals as helicopters are for rescuing people after a disaster”,he says.

Reading Check

Choose the best answers according to the text

Inference 1.What inspired Thron's using infrared-equipped drones to save hurt animals?

A.His big dream. B.Hurt animals in need.

C.More effective results. D.Working as a cinematographer.

Detail 2.What can we know about the dog Thron rescued?

A.It probably had no owner before.

B.It lived with Thron for 30 days.

C.It was rescued out of fires.

D.It was under a house when found.

Inference 3.What can be inferred about Thron from the last two paragraphs?

A.He wished to use helicopters to save animals.

B.He also rescued many people after disasters.

C.He had many volunteers working with him.

D.He once participated in a rescue abroad.

Inference 4.Which of the following words can best describe Thron?

A.Courageous and calm. B.Enthusiastic and kind.

C.Cooperative and cautious. D.Ambitious and professional.

Language Study

Ⅰ.Analyze the difficult structure in the text

At the time of the Paradise fire in California in 2018,Thron was working as a cinematographer filming a man who was rescuing cats using an infrared handheld camera.2018年加利福尼亚州天堂镇火灾发生时，斯隆作为一名电影摄影师，正在拍摄一名使用手持红外摄像机救猫的男子。

【点石成金】本句是一个主从复合句，句子的主语是Thron。who引导定语从句，修饰先行词a man。