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Officials at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona, are celebrating the birth of a baby elephant. z fficials say the baby was born on Monday. It is a female and she weighs nearly 130 kilogram.
Semba, her mother, is a 30-year-old African elephant. The pregnancy lasted 22 months.
Officials described the baby elephant as “healthy, standing and nursing”.
The baby hasn't been given a name yet.
(3) Semba has given birth before. Zoo officials said during this pregnancy, she was closely monitor through physical exams and blood tests.
Dr. Sue Tygielski is the zoo’s director of zoological operations. (4) She said the elephant's birth we smoothly and that there were no complications.
The new baby expands the zoo's elephant herd to six.That includes the baby's parents, a sister, a brother and an adult female
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预览两道题各选项，由选项中的She130kilogramsbabies等词推测，新闻内容可能与某雌性生物有关。第3题各选项均以She开头，可能考查这只雌性生物的具体情况。第4题各选项均为描述性的语句，主语均为It，内容涉及时长、是否有并发症、是否顺利、由谁来监控等，因此听音时需要确认It的指代对象及其相关细节信息。
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3. What do we learn about the mother elephant Semba?
B)。【解析】新闻中提到，母象桑巴以前生育过,因此答案为B)。
4. What does the report say about the birth of the new baby elephant?
C)。【解析】新闻中提到，苏·泰格尔斯基博士说小象出生的过程很顺利，并且没有出现任何的并发症。因此,答案为 C)。