英语听力精选进阶版 7117

Background: 十年前，在泰国做木材运输的一只大象Motola 踏中地雷，被迫截肢，失去了她的左前足。Motola 的不幸遭遇引起了国际社会的同情， 捐款纷纷涌入。现在她已经年满48岁，值得庆幸的是经过现代医学和一家专门设计人工假肢的慈善机构的支持，她的左脚装上了义肢，终于能再一次脚踏实地了。

It was during a break from hauling logs that Motola, foraging¹ for food, stepped on a land mine. A fortnight later, at Lampang elephant hospital, five surgeons and 12 nurses worked for three hours to amputate Motola's front left foot and save her life.

Her fate drew attention to the border region between Thailand and Burma, which is littered with land mines. And the television pictures showing the elephant hobbling on three legs, weeping with pain, had people donating thousands of dollars for her treatment within days.

But it was six years until Motola was well enough to be fitted with her first, provisional artificial limb: a sawdust-filled canvas shoe. Since then, experts at the Prostheses Foundation, a charity that normally produces cheap but efficient prosthetic devices for humans, took a cast of Motola's leg to mould a proper foot for her.

If she is happy with the new, much more stable device, Motola will be able to walk around with a little elephant called Mosha. She was only a baby when she too stepped on a land mine. Her first artificial leg was fitted in 2007. Mosha is doing well and, having outgrown² two prosthetic limbs, the three-year-old is now walking around on a third.

GLOSSARY 词汇表

hauling logs 搬运木材 

foraging 寻找食物 

landmine 地雷 

amputate 截肢 

fate 命运 

drew attention 吸引注意力，得到关注 

littered 到处都是（贬义） 

hobbling 跛脚行走 

had people 让人们 

provisional 临时的 

artificial limb 假肢 

sawdust-filled canvas shoe 塞满锯木屑的布鞋 

prosthetic 义肢的，假体的 

cast 模子 

mould 做成模型 

outgrown 成得比…快/大

1 foraging   

v.搜寻（食物），尤指动物觅（食）( forage的现在分词 )；（尤指用手）搜寻（东西）

参考例句：

• They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps. 他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The campers went foraging for wood to make a fire. 露营者去搜寻柴木点火。 来自辞典例句

2 outgrown   

长[发展] 得超过（某物）的范围( outgrow的过去分词 )； 长[发展]得不能再要（某物）； 长得比…快； 生长速度超过

参考例句：

• She's already outgrown her school uniform. 她已经长得连校服都不能穿了。
• The boy has outgrown his clothes. 这男孩已长得穿不下他的衣服了。