托福閱讀材料：毒魚

　1、A new study finds there are more venomous fish than snakes.

　　一項新研究結果顯示，世界上有毒的魚類甚至比毒蛇還要多。

　　2、The 1,200 presumably venomous fish tallied in a new study is six times previous estimates. Fish with a biting bite outnumber all other venomous vertebrates combined, in fact.

　　一項最新的研究顯示，有毒魚類大約有1200種之多，這是此前人們估計的6倍。實際上，有毒魚類的數量超過了其他所有有毒脊椎動物的總和。

　　3、"The results of this research were quite surprising," said researcher William Leo Smith of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

　　美國自然歷史博物館的研究員威廉·利奧·史密斯對此表示：“這項研究得到的結論非常讓人吃驚�！�

　　4、This might surprise you, too: More than 50,000 people are poisoned by fish bite s every year, Smith and his colleague said. Symptoms range from blisters to death.

　　史密斯和他的同事說，或許下面這個數據能讓你同樣感到震驚：每年，會有超過5萬人因為這些有毒魚類而發生中毒反應，其癥狀從發水泡到死亡不等。

　　5、Smith conducted the study along with Ward Wheeler, Curator in the Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology. The results are reported in the Journal of Heredity.

　　報道說，史密斯是與美國自然歷史博物館無脊椎動物館的館長沃德·惠勒一同負責此項研究的，他們的研究結果發表在《遺傳雜志》上。