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Can plants talk ? Modern research has found something amazing:they do communicate with each other.

It has been known for some time that plants use chemicals to communicate with each other.This happens when a plant gets attacked（攻击）by insects（昆虫）. The plant gives out chemicals from the leaves that are being eaten . This is like a warning , or a call for help :” I’m being attacked !” When another plant gets the chemicals , it starts to give out its own , different chemicals.Some of these chemicals drive insects away . Others attract the wasps（黄蜂）! The wasps kill the insects that are eating the plants . Scientists hope to learn more about this plant warning system , so that we can use it to grow more crops .

More surprisingly , plants also use sound to communicate . People can’t hear these sounds,but plants are making them. Some plants make noises with their roots command. Chili plants do this. Some trees make clicking noises when there is not enough water .

Most surprisingly of all , plants have an amazing system of communication that can link almost every plant in a forest.Scientists call this system the ” wood wide web “. The wood wide web is linked（联系） underground by fungi（霉菌）. It links the roots of different plants to each other . It is in some ways similar to the Internet we use . Using the wood wide web , plants can share information and even food with each other . However, it may lead to bad effects. Plants may use it to steal food from each other or spread chemicals to attack other plants.Perhaps one day scientists will learn how to create a“firewall ” to help prevent these attacks within the wood wide web.

Scientists are learning more every day about the secret ways in which plants talk to each other Maybe one day we will know enough about plant communication to be able to“talk”with them ourselves .

48. There are ____amazing facts to agree with that plants can communicate with each other.

A.two B.three C.four D.five

49. What will plants do when they are attacked by insects ?

A.They will make the wasps to kill the insects in time.

B.They will making noises with their roots command.

C.They will produce chemicals as a warning or a call for help

D.They will steal food from each other or attack other plants..

50.What is the writer’s purpose of the last paragraph ?

A.To encourage people to learn to talk with plants .

B.To tell us more secret ways to study plants .

C.To call on people to look after the plants .

D.To give people hope to communicate with plants .

51. Which is the best title for the passage ?

A.The Secret Language of Plants

B.The Plants that can “talk” each other

C.The Study about the Plant’s “wood wide web”

D.Why Scientists Do Research about Plants

D

The Beggar

At the age of fifteen, both his legs had been crushed* by a carriage. From that time forth he begged（乞讨）, dragging himself along the roads.

In the villages people hardly gave him anything— he was too well-known. Everyone had grown tired of seeing him—day after day for forty years, dragging his disabled and ugly body from door to door on his wooden crutches（拐杖）. He lived like the animals of the field. He was among people, yet loved by no one and cared by no one. They nicknamed him “Bell” because he hung between his two crutches like a bell.

For two days he had eaten nothing. No one gave him anything now. Women shouted at him from their doorsteps when they saw him coming:

“Go away, you good-for-nothing beggar! Why, I gave you a piece of bread only three days ago!”

It was December and a cold wind blew over the fields. Now and then he sat down for a few moments’ rest. He only got one wish—to eat—but no one offered anything.For three hours he went on his painful journey but received not a half penny for his pains.

When he had visited all the houses he knew,“Bell” sank down in a corner, having no idea what he was waiting for. Several hens ran here and there in front of him. “Bell” watched them at first without thinking of anything. Then a thought reached him — the thought that one of those hens would be good to eat if it were cooked over a fire.

He took up a stone beside him and luckily killed the nearest hen at the first shot. The hen fell, flapping its wings. “Bell” picked up his crutches, moving across to where his victim（受害者） lay.

Just as he reached it, he received a strong hit in the back which made him let go of the crutches and sent him flying half a meter away. The owner of the hens, kept kicking him angrily. The other villagers came up and joined the beating. In the end,“Bell”, half dead, was shut in the town jail（监狱）.

The police had no idea that he might need food, and he was left alone until the following day. When in the early morning they came to him, he was found dead on the floor. Such a terrible thing!

52.What’s wrong with the beggar when he was fifteen ?

A.He lost his hands in an accident. B. his legs were broken unluckily.

C.A car hit him badly on the road. D.He was unable to speak loudly.

53. According the passage ,which is True about the beggar?

A.The beggar begged for about 40 years.

B. Few people knew the beggar in the village.

C.The beggar begged with a bell.

D.The beggar couldn’t see anything clearly.

54. Which is the right order of the following things about the beggar?

① He was beaten by villagers for what he did. ③ He was left alone in the town jail.

② He got nothing after begging for hours ④ He killed a hen with a stone

A.①③②④ B.②①④③ C.②④①③ D.④①③②

55. The writer wrote the passage to _____

A.show what the beggar did before he died. B.describe how painful the beggar felt

C.introduce a story about a poor beggar D.tell us people were unfriendly to the poor.

56.Did the beggar die at last ? Why or Why not ? List two reasons at least .