《2025年基础训练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. quiet. 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. connected 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. store water. 4. Amazingly, 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. action to help their "family". Many plants in a garden come from the same parent. By sharing warning messages, they can stay alive 6. without losing too much water. Besides pea plants, poplar trees, corn plants and cotton plants can also 7. communicate with each other. They send warning messages to protect 8. themselves and their neighbours.
This shows the 9. importance 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. sharing their stories.

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