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Listen again to part of the lecture.Then answer the question. What does the professor imply about the falling of leaves?
Listen again to part of the lecture.Then answer the question. What does the professor imply about the falling of leaves?
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2013-04-25
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问题
Listen again to part of the lecture.Then answer the question. What does the professor imply about the falling of leaves?
W: Several of the processes related to growth and aging in plants involve the effects of hormones.Today I’ll talk about two aging processes-the ripening of fruit and the falling of leaves in autumn.These processes involve a hormone called ethylene.What is ethylene? It’s achemical, a gas produced by plants as a hormone.Ethylene is unique among plant hormones because it’s the only hormone that’s a gas.The gaseous state is important because it enables ethylene to move through the plant.Like all other hormones, ethylene triggers certain responses in the plant.Ethylene is associated with a variety of aging processes.One example of the aging process is the ripening of fruit.The ripening of fruit involves several changes in structure and metabolism.Some of these changes are aging processes.One change is the weakening of cell walls, which softens the fruit.Another is the decrease in chlorophyll content, which causes the fruit to lose its greenness.Ethylene initiates or hastens both of these changes and also causes some ripened fruit to drop from the plant.A chain reaction occurs during ripening, as ethylene triggers aging.The aging cells then release more ethylene.Because ethylene is a gas, the signal to ripen spreads from fruit to fruit.You’ve heard the expression "One bad apple spoils the whole lot." Well, it really is true! Yes, Randy?
M: So, when we buy fruit, like peaches that are still kind of green, and we store them in a plastic bag, and the peaches ripen faster-is this because of ethylene? I mean, I think I get it.The bag traps the ethylene gas, and this speeds up the ripening.
W: Right.That’s exactly what happens.Ethylene accumulates inside the plastic bag, and this starts a chain reaction.The signal to ripen spreads from one peach to another, and this causes all of the peaches to ripen faster.
By the way, the role of ethylene was discovered in sort of an interesting way.A century ago, citrus growers used to ripen fruit by "curing" it in sheds that were heated by kerosene stoves.The growers thought it was the heat from the stoves that ripened the fruit.However, they later discovered that the fruit didn’t ripen after they started using newer, cleaner-burning stoves.Botanists figured out that the reason the fruit ripened in the sheds with kerosene stoves was because of ethylene-not heat-because, as it turns out, ethylene is a by product of kerosene combustion.Nowadays, a lot of fruit is ripened in huge storage containers that have ethylene gas piped in.It’s a new variation on the old curing shed.But in other cases, storage facilities have to slow down the ripening caused by natural ethylene.For example, apples are stored in bins that are flushed with carbon dioxide.Circulating the air with carbon dioxide prevents ethylene from accumulating, and carbon dioxide slows down the action of whatever ethylene isn’t flushed away.This is how apples can be stored for several months before they’re shipped to supermarkets.
Another aging process in plants where ethylene plays a role is the falling of leaves in autumn.When a leaf falls from a tree, the breaking point is a layer near the base of the leaf’s stalk.A change in the balance of two hormones-ethylene and auxin-controls the falling of leaves.An aging leaf produces less and less auxin, a hormone that stimulates cell growth.The drop in auxin makes the cells of the breaking layer more sensitive to ethylene.As the influence of ethylene becomes stronger, the cells start producing enzymes that weaken the cell walls of the breaking layer.Finally, with the help of wind or rain, the leaf breaks away at that layer and falls from the tree.
选项
A、Leaves fall from old trees, but not from trees that are still young.
B、Both hormones and environmental factors cause leaves to fall.
C、The falling of leaves increases the tree’s risk of getting a disease.
D、Spraying ethylene into an orchard will prevent leaves from falling.
答案
B
解析
The professor implies that both hormones and environmental factors cause leaves to fall. The failing of leaves involves the hormones ethylene and auxin. Environmental factors such as wind or rain also play a role. (2.4)
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