《2025年同步练习册大象出版社八年级英语上册人教版》

七、阅读短文,从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词,每词限用一次。
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Can plants talk? You may think the plants in your garden are 1. ______. But in fact, they are "talking" a lot under the ground!
To find out whether plants can talk, scientists did an experiment with pea plants. On one side, they 2. ______ the roots of some pea plants together. When the scientists dried the central plant's soil, it closed its leaf pores (气孔) to 3. ______ water. 4. ______, within 15 minutes, nearly all of its connected neighbours did the same! On the other side, plants with unconnected roots stay unchanged.
Plants do this kind of 5. ______ to help their "family". Many plants in a garden come from the same parent. By sharing warning messages, they can stay alive 6. ______ losing too much water. Besides pea plants, poplar trees, corn plants and cotton plants can also 7. ______ with each other. They send warning messages to protect 8. ______ and their neighbours.
This shows the 9. ______ of plants working together. Our planet's ecosystem depends on (依赖于) these plants' conversations. Next time you see a plant, remember it is part of a big "talking" family! They are always busy 10. ______ their stories.

答案： 1. quiet 2. connected 3. store 4. Amazingly 5. action 6. without 7. communicate 8. themselves 9. importance 10. sharing