高中英语(人教)选修九 同步课件 U4P4 Listening exercise

and dry places. When the leaves are _s_h_a_p_e__ like this, not much water is ldost from the plant. Another
interesting sthtriannggabout these _______ plaents is that theya’ppreeatrhanec same colour and ________e__ of the
gets digested by the plant.
S1: That’asm_a_z_in_____! S2: What f_ga_n_ta_s_t_i __ plants! TH: Gordocn. G: These are the plants I’m going
to talk about. They’re often called “living stones”, but even
soil and stones oabroviuonud it. This makes them less ________ to
animals looking for food.
TH: Thanks, Gordon. Andrea. A: I’m going to tell yoabuo_u_____
really claerveera-t-t-rathcteedinsbeycts ____
_________ ___ the sweet smell
coming from whtartapthey think is a flower. But it’s a _____.
Once an insect goes down into the pitcher, it can’t get out as
M: Sure. Today, I want to _ta_l_k_ a_b_o_u_t_ an insect-eating plant called a pitcher plant.
Here’spah_o_t ___ of it. Look at this part hereos. hIta’pes _______ like a pitcher. Itd’s aecvetunally a leaf _____ ______ it looktsholiukgeha flower. It’s
Rafflesia arnoldii, at plant that has
a flower about ownide metre ____. In lfaarcgte, sit’s the _e_____ flower in the tworld. Rafflesia arnoldii doesn’t
Listen again and fill in the blanks.
TH: Today Mark, Gordon and Andrea are going to tell us about some u_n_u_s_u_a__ plants. Mark, do you want lto go first?
there are small hard haidrsowpnowinatrindg __________ that presvceanpstinit from ________. In the engd, the insect
falls down intoboattpoomol of liquid at the _______ of the pitat_tr_a_c_ts___ insects that eat dead aninimstaelasdbut ______ ___ getting a feeopdifc,kthuep insects ___s_pr_e_a_ its pollen and _______ it tdo other Rafflesias,
Unit 4 Exploring plants
Listen to the text.
UNUSUAL PLANTS
Listen to Mark (M), Gordon (G) and Andrea (A) telling their class and their teacher (TH) about some plants.
thaoubgiht they do look ___ ____ like stones, they are in fact plants.
S3: Wow!
S4: How interesting!
G: Their _sc_i_e_n_ti_fi__ name is Lithops and thcey come from South Africa
hstaevme anyroleoatves, _____ or _____. Ist doesn’s t need them as it’s a
parasite. It gets its food by
living on another plant. You might think that this flower swhoonudledrfsuml ell __________ but it actually looks and smells like rotting meat! S2: Oh, yudciks!gustin S1: That’gs __________! S3: I think it’s fantastic!
and Namibia. The body of a
lithops is actualllyeavpeair of ______ trhouant dheavesbecome _______d_ like a stone. This ishot because this plant lives in very