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Archerfish

噴水魚—自然界的神射手

本篇適合：閱讀、挑戰(zhàn)

魚類通常都吃水里的生物，有吃小魚小蝦的，有吃水草的，但同學們聽說過這世上有一種魚是吃水面上的昆蟲嗎？它們是如何捕捉獵物的呢？難道它們會飛？

by 璇璣

Archer fi sh are small fi sh. Some live infreshwater. Others live insaltwater. They come from small rivers inAsia.

Archer fi sh eatinsectsand other small animals. The archerfish can use waterdropletsfrom its mouth toshootdown insects above the water. When the insect falls into the water, the archer fi sh catches the insect and eats it.

The archer fi sh is good at shooting.Adultfi sh usuallyhitthe insects on the fi rst time, but young fi sh must do it many timesin order tolearn how.

中文大意請見第47頁。

archer fi sh[?ɑ?t??f??] n. 噴水魚

fresh[fre?] adj. 淡的

salt[s??lt] adj. 咸的，含鹽的

Asia[?e???] n. 亞洲

insect[??nsekt] n. 昆蟲（復數(shù)：insects）

droplet[?dr?pl?t] n. （液體的）小滴（復數(shù)：droplets）

shoot[?u?t] v. 射擊（-ing形式：shooting）

adult[??d?lt] adj. 成年的

hit[h?t] v. 擊中

in order to[?n ???d? tu?] 為了

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