海拔4900米的喜馬拉雅山上，竟生長著這樣一種神奇植物

各位寶寶們，又到了一周聽力時間，今天教主帶著大家完成一個Section 4的做題與聽寫。

今天的主題是一種叫做杜松（Juniper）的植物，杜松你可能沒見過，但有種酒你肯定聽說過，那就是琴酒（gin），琴酒也叫杜松子酒，正是因為杜松果實是其味道的重要來源。關於杜松的具體介紹，大家可以自行百度。

下面進入今天的聽力練習

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題目

Saving the juniper plant

場景：植物

題型：句子填空

SECTION 4 Questions 31-40

Questions 31-40

Complete the sentences below.

WriteNO MORE THAN TWO WORDSfor each answer.

Saving the juniper plant

Background

31 Juniper was one of the first plants to colonise Britain after the last ..................

32 Its smoke is virtually ..................,so juniper wood was used as fuel in illegal activities.

33 Oils from the plant were used to prevent .................. spreading.

34 Nowadays,its berries are widely used to .................. food and drink.

Ecology

35 Juniper plants also support several species of insects and ..................

Problems

36 In current juniper population ratios of the .................. are poor.

37 Many of the bushes in each group are of the same age so .................. of whole

populations is rapid.

Solutions

38 Plantlife is trialing novel techniques across .................. areas of England.

39 One measure is to introduce .................. for seedlings.

40 A further step is to plant .................. from healthy bushes.

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答案

31. ice age

32. invisible

33. infection

34. flavour

35. fungus/fungi

36. sexes

37. extinction

38. lowland

39. shelter

40. cuttings

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原文

For my presentation I"m going to summarize what I found out about efforts to save one plant species the Juniper bush. It was flourished in Britain, and throughout the world"s temperate zones, but over the last few decades has declined considerably. Before I go on to explain the steps being taken to save it in England, let me start by looking at some background information and why the Juniper had been so important in cultural as well as ecological terms, historic and in the present day.

Firstly, I want to emphasize the fact that Juniper is a very ancient plant. It is been discovered thatit was actually amongst (Q31)the first species of plants to establish itself in Britain in the period following the most recent ice age.And, as I say it has a much valued place in British culture. It was used widely as a fuel during the middle ages,(Q32)because when burnt the smoke given off is all but invisibleand so any illicit activities involving fire could go on without being detected. For example, cooking game hunted illegally. It also has valuable medicinal properties, particularly during large epidemics,(Q33)oil was extracted from the Juniper wood and sprayed in the air to try to prevent the spread of infection in hospital woods.And these days, perhaps it"s most well known uses in cuisine cooking,where (Q34)it"s berries are much valued ingredient used to flavor a variety of meat dishes and also drinks.

Turning now to ecological issues, Juniper bushes play an important role in support of other living things.(Q35)If Juniper bushes are wiped out, this would radically affect many different insect and also fungus specieswe simply cannot afford to let these species die out.

So why is the Juniper plant declining at such a rapid rate? Well, a survey conducted in the north and west of Britain in 2004-5, show that its major problem is the fact that (Q36)in present day populations, ratios between the sexes are unbalanced, and without a proper mix of male and female bushes don"t get pollinated. Also, the survey found that in a lot of these populations,(Q37)the plants are the same age, so this means that bushes grow old and start to diet similar times leading to swift extinction of whole populations.

Now the charity Plantlife is trying to do something to help the decline in Juniper species.(Q38)It』s currently trying out two new major salvage techniques, this time focusing on lowland regions of England.(Q39)The first thing it"s trying, is to provide shelters for the seedlings in areas where Juniper populations are fairly well established.These of course are designed to help to protect the plants at the most vulnerable stage.(Q40)A further measure is that in areas where colonies all have died out, numbers of being boosted by the planting of cuttings which have been taken from healthy bushes elsewhere.

Now I hope I』ve given a clear picture of the problems facing this culturally and ecologically valuable plant and of the measures taken by PlantLife to tackle them.If anyone has any questions I"ll be happy...」

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簡析

優點：

定位清楚，每道題都有原詞定位，發音清晰

缺點：

題目較長，讀起來慢，理解需要時間

答案集中，間隔短，不能走神

生詞，難詞多，拼寫可能失分

考點：

答案前後的替換表達

連讀

難點：

31題，Britain提前出現，造成迷惑，大家要耐心等待background念出才是真正定位

36題，poor和proper發音相似，易混淆

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任務

1.完成題目，對答案

2.整理題目與原文替換對應表達

3.聽寫原文

4.泛聽原文，直到全部聽懂

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