跟读练习: 688 - 通过视频学习英语口语
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It's time to improve your English listening and speaking skills with another true and frankly crazy story.
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A story so unusual that many people think it cannot possibly be real.
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Imagine this, a government sends soldiers into battle.
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The soldiers carry machine guns and expect an easy victory.
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But they are not fighting another army.
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They are fighting thousands of large birds.
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This is the incredible true story of the Great Emu War.
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It was 1932 and Australia was facing difficult times.
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Like many countries around the world, Australia was suffering from the Great Depression.
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Money was scarce, jobs were hard to find and many families struggled to earn enough to survive.
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In Western Australia, many farmers were trying to build a new life.
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Some of them had fought in the First World War and had received farmland from the government after returning home.
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They hoped that farming would provide a stable future for their families.
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But life on the land was much harder than they had expected.
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The weather was often difficult.
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Prices for crops were low and making a profit was never easy.
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Then, as if those problems were not enough, another challenge arrived.
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Every year after the breeding season,
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thousands of emus migrated across Western Australia in search of food and water.
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An emu is the second largest bird in the world after the ostrich.
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Although it cannot fly, it is a powerful animal with long legs
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that allow it to run at speeds of almost 50 kilometers per hour.
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That year, around 20,000 emus entered the farming regions.
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The birds spread across the fields, eating wheat and damaging crops that farmers had spent months growing.
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As they moved through the countryside,
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they also broke fences, making it easy for rabbits and other animals to enter the farms and cause even more damage.
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For the farmers it was becoming a disaster.
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Many believed they might lose an entire season's work.
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They asked the Australian government for help, hoping that something could be done before it was too late.
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The government decided to send soldiers.
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It seemed like a simple solution.
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If trained soldiers had machine guns, surely they could deal with a group of birds.
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A small military team led by Major Meredith arrived with two Lewis machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
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At first, everyone expected the operation to be over within a few days.
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Instead, things quickly became much more difficult.
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When the soldiers found a large group of emus, they carefully moved into position.
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They waited for the birds to come closer before opening fire.
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But as soon as the shooting began, the emus reacted immediately.
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Instead of staying together, they scattered in every direction.
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Within seconds, one large group had become dozens of small groups running across the countryside.
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The soldiers found it almost impossible to hit enough birds before they disappeared.
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A few days later, they tried a different strategy.
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This time they attached one of the machine guns to a truck.
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The plan was to chase the emus across the fields while firing at them.
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On paper it sounded like a clever idea.
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In reality it was a complete failure.
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The ground was rough and uneven.
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The truck bounced constantly as it drove over rocks and holes,
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making it almost impossible for the gunner to aim accurately.
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Meanwhile, the emus ran surprisingly fast.
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They changed direction without warning,
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disappeared behind bushes, and often escaped before the soldiers could get close enough.
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The soldiers were becoming frustrated.
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The emus seemed to know exactly how to avoid them.
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Some newspapers even joked that the birds had their own military commanders who organized their escape.
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Of course, that was only a joke, but people across Australia began laughing at the strange operation.
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The soldiers continued their mission for several weeks.
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They fired thousands of bullets and managed to kill some emus, but nowhere near enough to stop the damage.
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For every group they chased away, another group appeared somewhere else.
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The birds simply kept coming coming.
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Eventually the government decided that the operation had become too expensive and was not producing the results everyone had hoped for.
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The soldiers were ordered to leave.
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Although some emus had been killed, thousands remained on the farms.
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The farmers still faced the same problem they had before.
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Over the following years different solutions were introduced.
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Stronger fences were built to protect farmland and farmers were encouraged to control the emu population themselves through reward programs.
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These methods proved to be much more effective than sending soldiers into the countryside.
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Today, the Great Emu War has become one of the most famous stories in Australian history.
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It is often described as the war that Australia lost against birds.
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Of course, it was never officially a war.
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It was a military operation designed to protect farmland from wild animals.
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But the nickname has survived for almost a hundred years because it perfectly captures how unusual the whole event was.
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Although the soldiers had modern weapons and military training, they underestimated their enemy.
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The Imios were fast, unpredictable and perfectly adapted to the Australian landscape.
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That is why this strange story continues to entertain people around the world nearly a century later.
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Now you can test yourself with a quick quiz.
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Don't forget to answer the questions out loud and press pause if you need more time.
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Ready?
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Why were the farmers asking for help?
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And the answer is because thousands of emus were eating their crops and damaging their fences.
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Why did the government send soldiers?
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The government believed the soldiers could quickly solve the problem with guns.
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Why didn't the soldiers succeed?
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And the answer is the emus ran very fast, scattered into small groups and escaped across the countryside.
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Why did the truck plan fail?
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The uneven ground made it difficult to drive and almost impossible to aim a machine gun.
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How was the problem managed later?
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And the answer is better fences and reward programs for farmers.
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I love this story because it reminds us that nature is often much more unpredictable than we expect.
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What do you think?
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If you had been in charge, part of the Australian government, how would you have solved the problem?
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Let me know below in the comments.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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Take care.
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