Have you ever wondered what animals are talking about? With the development of AI, we may be able to understand their languages!

In Professor Karen Bakker’s new book, The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants, she talks about how AI is helping us to make an animal version（版本）.

All around the animal kingdom（王国）, there are sounds that we can hardly pick up and decipher（破译）. For example, elephants talk with each other using infrasound（次声波）far below our human hearing range. Coral（珊瑚）in the ocean also sends sound waves to attract baby coral to safer areas to grow. This is surprising as coral doesn’t have any ears! Scientists have placed listening equipment into these environments to pick up the sounds humans cannot hear.

After the sounds are recorded, AI can study their meaning. For example, Israeli researchers used AI to translate bats’ 15,000 calls. They found that more than 60 percent were arguments about four things: food, sleep positions（姿势）, invasion（侵犯）, and unwanted advances（求爱）.

This technology can not only understand the animals but communicate back to them. For example, bees use dances to communicate. A research team in Germany, therefore, put the bee language AI system into a robot bee. They asked the robot to create a dance routine（路线）to tell the bees where the nectar（花蜜）was, Vox reported.

【小题1】What does Karen Bakker’s new book mainly talk about?

A．Why humans should protect animals.

B．How AI helps humans to understand animals.

C．When humans can get closer to animals.

【小题2】How did elephants talk with each other?

A．By using infrasound.

B．By sending sound waves.

C．By waving their big ears.

【小题3】What does the underlined word “equipment” in Paragraph 3 mean in Chinese?

A．耳机

B．设备

C．障碍

【小题4】What can we infer（推断）from Paragraph 4?

A．Scientists have got to know how bats argue with each other.

B．Israeli researchers are the first to use AI to translate animals’ languages.

C．Scientists have been able to translate some animals’ languages with AI technology.

【小题5】How did scientists tell bees where the nectar was?

A．They trained other bees to lead them there.

B．They asked a robot bee to teach them a new language.

C．They made a robot bee to tell the bees about the route by dancing.