Unit 5 Revealing Nature Developing ideas - 高二英语同步精品课堂（外研版2019选择性必修第一册）

Period 3 Developing & Presenting ideas 1 Developing idaes Step 1. Lead-in Step 2. Extensive reading Step 3. Intensive reading Step 4. Writing task 2 Developing idaes Do Plants Think? How aware are plants? This is the central question behind a fascinating new book, What a Plant Knows by Daniel Chamovitz, director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University(特拉维夫大学). A plant, he argues, can see, smell and feel. It can mount a defense when under siege, and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way. A plant can even be said to have a memory. But does this mean that plants think — or that one can speak of a “neuroscience” of the flower? Chamovitz answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. 3 Developing idaes Do you know what plants can do? attack move breathe speak eat steal sleep think 4 Developing idaes 1. The average strawberry has 200 seeds. It's the only fruit that bears its seeds on the outside. 2. Peaches, pears, apricots, quinces, strawberries, and apples are members of the rose family. 桃子、梨、杏子、木瓜、草莓和苹果都是蔷薇科的成员。 3. The difference between nectarines and peaches is that nectarines don't have fuzzy skins. You can graft peach branches onto a nectarine tree or nectarine branches onto a peach tree so you have both types of fruits. 油桃和桃子的区别是油桃没有绒毛皮。你可以把桃枝嫁接到油桃树上，或者把油桃枝嫁接到桃树上，这样你就可以同时获得两种水果。 4. Trees are the longest-living organisms on earth. 树木是地球上寿命最长的生物。 Some interesting facts about plants 5 Developing idaes Some interesting facts about plants 1. Around 2000 different types of plants are used by humans to make food. 2. There are over 200,000 identified plant species and the list is growing all the time. 3. Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day. 4. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that grapes were grown to make wine about 8,000 years ago in Mesopotamia (today's Iraq), although the ancient Egyptians were the first to record the pr