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We tend to think of plants as the furniture of the natural world. They don’t move, they don’t make sounds, they don’t seem to re
We tend to think of plants as the furniture of the natural world. They don’t move, they don’t make sounds, they don’t seem to re
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2015-11-11
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问题
We tend to think of plants as the furniture of the natural world. They don’t move, they don’t make sounds, they don’t seem to respond to nothing—at least not very quickly. But as is often the case, our human view of the world misses quite a lot. Plants talk to each other all the time. And the language is chemical.
Over the years, scientists have reported that different types of plants, from trees to tomatoes, release compounds into the air to help neighboring plants. These chemical warnings all have the same purpose—to spread information about one plant’s disease so other plants can defend themselves. But exactly how plants receive and act on many of these signals is still mysterious.
In this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers in Japan offer some explanations. They have identified one chemical message and traced it all the way from release to action.
The scientists looked at tomato plants infested(侵害)by common pest, the cutworm caterpillar(毛虫). To start out, they grew plants in two plastic compartments connected by a tube. One plant was infested and placed upwind and the others were uninfested and placed downwind. The downwind plants were later exposed to the cutworm caterpillar. The results showed that plants that had previously been near sick neighbors were able to defend themselves better against the caterpillar.
The researchers also studied leaves from exposed and unexposed plants. They found one compound showed up more often in the exposed plants. The substance is called HexVic. When the scientists fed HexVic to cutworms, it knocked down their survival rate by 17%. The scientists identified the source of Hex Vic, and sprayed it lightly over healthy plants. Those plants were then able to start producing the caterpillar-killing Hex Vic. Researchers confirmed that uninfested plants have to build their own weapon to fight off bugs and diseases. How do they know when to play defense? They are warned first by their friendly plant neighbors.
It is a complex tale, and it may be happening in more plant species than tomatoes. It may also be happening with more chemical signals that are still unknown to us. For now though, we know that plants not only communicate, they look out for one another.
The tomato plants in the experiment were______.
选项
A、placed separately but connected through air
B、exposed to different kinds of pests
C、exposed to the pest at the same time
D、placed together in a closed compartment
答案
A
解析
细节题。定位到第四段。四个选项都是文章提到的细节,因此用排除法解题最合适。A、D选项对应To start out,they grew plants in two plastic compartments connected bya tube,可知D选项中的a closed compartment与原文的two有出人,A选项中的through air与原文by a tube是同义改写。因此A选项是正确答案。B、C选项对应。Thedownwind plants were later exposed to the cutworm caterpillar可知,西红柿树没有同时暴露在害虫之下,且也没有暴露在不同害虫之下,因此判断B、C有错。故本题答案为A。
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