初中英语河北加拿大版读物02

[07:24.08]Look after your plant and it will be healthy.
[07:28.84]It will grow big and have lots of leaves.Will your plant make flowers?
[07:36.10]First the plant makes buds.As the plant grows bigger,
[07:43.07]the buds bloom.Now your plant has flowers!
[07:48.82]Do you remember why plants have flowers?
[07:53.78]Because the flowers make seeds,and the seeds make new plants.
[08:01.05]FASCINATING FACT
[08:04.31]The double coconut tree has the biggest seeds in the world.
[08:10.48]They are very heavy--some are as heavy as you!
[08:16.22]The tallest plant in the world is the giant redwood tree.
[08:22.10]It grows from a seed smaller than a fingernail.
[08:28.06]Seeds come in all sizes.Some are big;
[08:33.80]some are small.Danny:"Giant" means very,very tall--taller than me!
[08:43.08]Brian:What's a "fingernail"?A fingernail grows on the end of your finger.
[08:50.02]This is a fingernail.What's Wrong with Danny's Seed?
[08:59.40]Danny's wheat seed isn't growing.
[09:04.05]Danny has put his pot in the refrigerator
[09:09.20]because that's where his mother puts the bread.
[09:14.06]Bread is made from wheat seeds!
[09:18.92]But then he thought the refrigerator might be too cold for his seed.
[09:25.39]So he put a scarf around the pot to keep the seed warm.
[09:31.56]Why isn't the seed growing? Danny doesn't know.
[09:37.41]Danny:What's wrong with my plant?Then Danny has an idea.
[09:44.25]Maybe Li Ming can give him some advice.Danny phones Li Ming.
[09:51.52]The phones rings and rings.Finally,Li Ming answers.
[09:57.86]He sounds very tired."Good afternoon, Li Ming!"says Danny.
[10:05.44]"Are you eating your lunch?""It isn't afternoon in Shijiazhuang,Danny,
[10:12.39]"says Li Ming.
[10:15.55]"It's four o'clock in the morning!""Oh,no!"says Danny.
[10:22.60]"Do you want to go back to bed?""I will soon,"says Li Ming.
[10:29.76]"But first,tell me why you phoned.""Has your plant sprouted?"asks Danny.
[10:38.22]"Yes,"says Li Ming.
[10:42.48]"It already has four leaves!""My wheat seed isn't growing,"
[10:49.85]says Danny.
[10:53.01]"What am I doing wrong?""Have you covered it with soil?"asks Li Ming.
[11:00.66]"Yes,lots and lots of it,"answers Danny."No,Danny," says Li Ming.
[11:09.62]"Cover it with a little bit of soil
[11:13.78]How about water?""Do seeds need water?"asks Danny.
[11:20.72]"Maybe I'll water mine.""Next,give it lots of warm sunshine,"says Li Ming.
[11:29.40]"Then it will soon sprout.""I will take my pot out of the refrigerator,"
[11:37.26]says Danny."Then I'll water it and put it next to the window.
[11:44.52]Thanks,Li Ming! You can go to bed now!"Plants Are Interesting!
[11:54.97]What plant is like a dinosaur?Dinosaurs lived 150 million years ago.
[12:05.03]The ginkgo tree lived then,too.
[12:09.47]Do we have any dinosaurs now?No!Dinosaurs are extinct.
[12:17.12]There are no dinosaurs today.Do we have ginkgo trees?Yes!
[12:24.78]Gingko trees grow in China.
[12:28.83]Do we have any other plants and animals from dinosaur times?
[12:34.89]No!Ginkgo trees
[12:39.04]are the only living thingsfrom the time of the dinosaurs that live today.
[12:45.70]Danny:Hey!I'm here! I'm alive!I'm not extinct!How fast can plants grow?
[12:56.28]Bamboo can grow one metre a day.It is the fastest growing plant in the world.
[13:04.14]What is the biggest flower?
[13:07.98]The stinking corpse lily has the biggest flowers in the world.
[13:14.33]They are about one metre wide and can weigh seven kilograms.
[13:20.37]How many people have seen this flower?Not many!
[13:25.80]The flowers smell so bad,nobody wants to go near them!
[13:32.64]This plant blooms once a years.It grow in the jungles of Asia.
[13:39.30]Danny:"What does"stinking" mean?When something stinks,it smells bad.
[13:49.57]What do you use to smell?Your nose!Brian:What's a"corpse"?
[13:56.83]A corpse is a dead body.You can look up
[14:01.98]"dead" in your dictionary.Jenny:What's a"jungle"?
[14:07.65]Trees grow in forests.Forests are big.A jungle is a special forest.
[14:16.19]It is a warm,wet forest with very big trees.Do plants sleep?
[14:24.65]Yes.At night,plants cannot make food because there is no sunlight.