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托福考试听力加试题:大王花(题目及答案)

2014-12-02 17:14:26来源:网络

  托福听力加试题:大王花 Rafflesia

  教授一开始就介绍植物分类,提到分类中的species种, genus属,order目。说植物的 classification 很难,一些特性比较特殊的植物特别是这个样子。提出植物的分类不能完全依靠它 flower 的形态和特性。提到Rafflesia (大王花),开花时会散发腐臭的味道,以吸引蝇类传播花粉。

  举了 Indonesia 的一种植物 M为例,它的 flower 很特别,超级大(图片显示它的直径有一个手臂这么长,颜色为绛红,也许有牛人知道它是何种植物),有难闻的味道,象什么肉,但是最后发现他们不是一个 order 的。生长在很恶劣的环境中,其它的植物都不能生长(题目一:它生长在什么样的环境当中?)这种植物有事物的来源,但是它还是会抓 insect 吃,因为它不能从土壤中得到足够的营养,所以要通过这种方式来获取所需的营养(题目二:为什么吃虫?)然后教授说了它怎么抓虫的? 经过很长时间的研究,专家发现它和violet(紫罗兰)、 willow(柳树) 等是属于一个order的,后提到幼时的 violet,也会散发那种 smell 的。

  提到共存(考题)。有提到另一种南美洲的植物和它是同一目的,但是花很小,味道也不难闻,与蓝莓共生 coherent。学生提问不能测 DNA 吗,教授说这种大花基本不进行光合作用,没法提取一般植物能提取到的 DNA。在 DNA 分析技术成熟之前根本无法将他们并为同类,由于他们的特征差异太大。教授还提到这种植物的交配不易, 其一气味难闻致使传蜜的动物不易接近,其二它每年只开一次花,且花分雌雄。所以要这么多先天条件凑齐

  不易,所以很少有人有机会看到开花的全过程。(考题)所以,结论,不可以貌取人。后来又讲了这种花很有可能灭绝,原因是要 fly 帮忙运花粉,要同种的花在一起,要…,要这些条件同时发生,是小概率事件(Small incident)。

  原文:

  Listen to part of a lecture in a Botany class

  We've been talking about plant classifications and how species belong to a family and families belong to an order, but sometimes, figuring out how we assign certain plant species to a particular order is challenging, even if the plant has...unusual characteristics. You'd think that plants with similar characteristics would belong to the same order, but that's not always true. A good example of this is a flower, that is—a flowering plant—that grows only in Malaysia and Indonesia, called Rafflesia.

  As you can see, Rafflesia is a pretty unusual plant. For starters, it's huge. The flower can grow up to a meter in width and can weigh up to seven kilos—pretty big, huh There aren't any other specimens in the plant world that have flowers even close to this size. But that's not the only unusual characteristic of Rafflesia, in fact, that's probably one of the least strange features of the plant.

  The plant also emits a terrible stench, like rotting meat. But again, there are other plants with bad smelling flowers. And in the case of Rafflesia, flies are attracted to that smell, and that's how the flowers get pollinated. So...um...Rafflesia's flowers are huge and smelly. Rafflesia is also a parasite; it gets its energy from another plant instead of from the sun, which is unusual, but not unheard of in the plant kingdom. It actually grows inside its host, which is a type of grapevine. I mean... it grows inside its host until it blooms—it doesn't bloom inside the host. But that leads me to...I want to tell you really

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