Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the

We all scream for water when thirsty, but do you know in very hot, dry weather, plants also make【B1】______ sounds as if they are crying out for help? You see, in a plant stem there are hundreds of water pipes that bring water and【B2】______ from the soil all the way up to the leaves. As the ground【B3】______ dry, it becomes harder and harder for the plants to do this. In【B4】______ draughts, plants have to fight to pull out any water【B5】______ . Scientist Robert Winter has found out that when it is really bad their water pipes snap(绷断) from the【B6】______ like rubber bands. When that happens, the whole plant vibrates(振动)a little. The snapping pipes make noises ten thousand times quieter than a【B7】______. Robert knows that healthy,【B8】______ plants are quiet.【B9】______ . How do the insects know which are healthy plants and which are not? Robert thinks that the insects may listen for the plants that cry and then they may buzz in to kill.【B10】______ .He attaches it to a quiet, healthy plant so that the plant sounds thirty.【B11】______ . They could build traps that imitate crying plants so when the insects buzz in to eat, they won't buzz out.

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