After reading the passage below, fill in the
blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with
a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the
other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Plants Scream in the Face of Stress
For the first time, researchers
appear to have evidence that like animals, those plants deprived of water or
(force) to endure bodily harm can let out their pain. The study, has yet to
be published in a scientific Journal, adds another dimension to scientists
(grow) understanding of how plants detect and interact with their surroundings.
In recent years, it has become
very clear that plants are more sensitive than researchers (think). They
respond when touched by insects and turn toward sources of light. "Plants are
not just robotic stimulus-response devices," said Frantisek Baluska of the
University of Bonn in Germany. "They're living organisms which have their own
problems."
Actually making their suffering
hearable, however, is another matter entirely. (test) that possibility, a
team led by Itzhak Khait, a plant scientist at Tel Aviv University in Israel, placed
microphones capable of detecting ultrasonic frequencies (超声波频率) four inches from tomato and tobacco plants. The researcher then either
stopped watering them or cut their stems.
Measuring in the range of 20 to
150 kilohertz (千赫), the researchers found that even happy, healthy plants made the occasional
noise. But when cut, tobacco plants emitted average of 15 sounds within an
hour of being cut, tomato plants produced 25 sounds.
researchers aren't yet
sure how plants produce these sounds, Khait and his colleagues proposed one possibility
in their paper as water travels through the plants' tubes, air bubbles will
form and explode, producing small vibrations.
All this "screaming"
caused by stress wasn't in a range detectable by human ears. But organisms that
can hear ultrasonic frequencies--like mice, bats or perhaps other plants--
possibly hear the plants cries from as far away as 15 feet.
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