标准听力(四)—标准听力(六)(12)

能与Jeb或Tom和美洲豹的搏斗有关。

Lying in the sun on a rock, the cougar saw Jeb and his son, Tom, before they saw it. Jeb put his bag down quickly and pulled his jacket open with both hands, making himself look big to the cougar. It worked. The cougar hesitated, ready to attack Jeb, but ready to forget the whole thing, too.
Jeb let go of his jacket, grasped Tom and held him across his body, making a cross. Now the cougar’s enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.
“Tom, no!” shouted his father.
But Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar. The second Tom broke free, Jeb threw himself on the cougar, just as it jumped from the rock. They hit each other in mid-air and both fell. The cougar was on Jeb in a flash, forgetting about Tom, which was what Jeb wanted.
Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined man stands a chance, even with just his fists. As the cougar’s claws got into his left shoulder, Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard. The animal howled and put its head back. Jeb followed up with his other fist. Then out of the corner of his eye, Jeb saw Tom. The boy was running back to help his father.
“Knife, Tom!” shouted Jeb.
The boy ran to his father’s bag, while Jeb started shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar’s attention away from Tom. Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb. The cougar was moving its head in and out, trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms. Tom swung with the knife, into the cougar’s back. It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.
The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds.Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26. Why did Jeb pull his jacket open when he saw the cougar?
【解析】选[C]。选项均以动词不定式开头表明，本题考查行为目的。短文开头提到看到美洲豹时，Jeb…pulled his jacket open with both hands, making himself look big to the cougar（用两只手把他的夹克?开到最大，是自己的体型大于美洲豹），而美洲豹面对一个体型大于它的人，就会害怕，所以Jeb这样做是为了吓退美洲豹，故答案为[C]。
【点睛】现在分词做伴随状语，由making himself look big to the cougar可推出，其目的是为了吓退美洲豹。
27. What do we know about cougars?
【解析】选[D]。短文中提到Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar （Tom因害怕跑了, 这是面对美洲豹时的大忌），由此可推断出，美洲豹喜欢攻击奔跑中的人，故答案为[D]。the last
thing 意为“最不应该做的事”。
【点睛】听清问题中的cougars，明确选项中They的指代是解答本题的关键。
28. How did Jeb try to hold the cougar’s attention?
【解析】选[A]。选项均以By + doing开头表明，本