《2025年走进重高培优讲义八年级英语上册人教版浙江专版》

Ⅱ. 阅读理解
Many cultures have stories of talking trees that give advice as well as warnings to people. Alexander the Great and Marco Polo were said to have visited such a tree in India. New research has found something amazing: it seems that plants can communicate after all.
It has been known for some time that plants use chemicals to communicate with each other. This happens when a plant gets attacked by insects. 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! 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. 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 nearly every plant in a forest. Scientists call this system the "wood wide web", which is linked underground by fungi (菌类). 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.
Scientists are learning more every day about the secret ways in which plants talk to each other. Who knows? Maybe one day we will know enough about plant communication to be able to "talk" with them ourselves.
( )1. The writer starts the passage by _.
A. telling stories B. giving advice C. listing numbers D. giving examples
( )2. According to the passage, plants can communicate with each other through _.
①chemicals ②leaves ③sound ④fungi
A. ②③④ B. ①③④ C. ①②④ D. ①②③
( )3. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to Paragraph 4?
A. Plants can share information and even food with scientists.
B. Scientists can help stop the plants from attacking each other.
C. Plants can use "wood wide web" to steal food from other plants.
D. Scientists can build a system to link almost every plant in a forest.
( )4. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The secrets of how plants communicate.
B. The study about the plant warning system.
C. The plants that give advice as well as warnings.
D. The reasons why scientists do research about plants.

答案： 1.D 2.B 3.C 4.A