全文 8 句（男女对话）· 12 个生词和短语（加粗 + 红色音标 / 词性 / 释义）
作者1. Fish and chips /tʃɪps/ n. 油煎土豆片 has always been a favourite dish in Britain, but as the oceans have been overfished /ˌəʊvə'fɪʃt/ v. 过度捕捞, fish has become more and more expensive.
作者2. So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant /'dʒaɪənt/ adj. 巨大的 fish are terrifying /'terɪfaɪɪŋ/ v. 吓，使恐怖 the divers /'daɪvəz/ n. 潜水员 on North Sea oil rigs /'ɔɪl rɪɡz/ n. 石油钻塔.
作者3. Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.
作者4. Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.
作者5. The fish are not sharks /ʃɑːks/ n. 鲨鱼 or killer whales /weɪlz/ n. 鲸, but favourite eating varieties /və'raɪətiz/ n. 品种 like cod /kɒd/ n. 鳕 and skate /skeɪt/ n. 鳐 which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length.
作者6. Three factors /'fæktəz/ n. 因素 have caused these fish to grow so large: the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs; the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs.
作者7. As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water.
作者8. Who eats who?
作者1. 炸鱼加炸土豆片一直是英国人喜爱的一道菜，但由于海洋被过度捕捞，鱼变得越来越贵了。
作者2. 所以，听说巨大的鱼正使北海石油钻井平台上的潜水员感到害怕，就让人感到很意外。
作者3. 石油钻井平台需要经常维修，而经常要在水下100英尺的黑暗中工作的潜水员，被工作时撞到他们身上的巨鱼吓得惊慌失措。
作者4. 现在他们请人做了特别的笼子来保护自己不受这些庞然大物的侵害。
作者5. 这些鱼不是鲨鱼，也不是虎鲸，而是人们爱吃的品种，如鳕鱼和鳐鱼，它们长得大得反常，有时长达十二英尺。
作者6. 有三个因素促使这些鱼长得这么大：海底热油管周围温暖的海水；钻井平台上工作人员扔到海里的大量食物；钻井平台周围完全没有渔船。
作者7. 结果是，这些鱼就在这可爱的温暖的水里吃了又吃，长了又长。
作者8. 谁吃谁呢？