VOA慢速英语 鲨鱼对海洋的重要性

　　Sharks: A Bad Image, but Oceans Value Them

　　鲨鱼对海洋的重要性

　　VOICE ONE:

　　This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Bob Doughty.

　　As part of Earth Day celebrations in April, the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, Cameron Hume, fed sharks from a cage in a tank

　　VOICE TWO:

　　And I’m Faith Lapidus. This week, we will tell about sharks -- a fish with a public relations problem.

　　VOICE ONE:

　　A picture in the newspaper shows a person standing next to a huge shark. The body of the shark is hanging with its head down. A scale is measuring its weight.

　　The lines below the picture say the shark was a very big one. Or perhaps it was one of the biggest ever caught in the area. The person who brought in the fish looks extremely pleased. That person won a battle with what has been called one of nature’s fiercest creatures.

　　VOICE TWO:

　　Some people, however, do not approve of catching sharks. They do not think all sharks are terrifying enemies. They know that studies show lightning and snakebites threaten people more than shark attacks.

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