导读：
我们认为人类智慧无穷，动物也一样，但植物呢？本文讨论为什么树木能给人类和大自然带来好处，以及树木之间如何互相帮助，相互交流，共同茁壮成长。
一、语篇泛读
二、词汇表
lift one’s spirits 振奋精神 tonic 使人精神振作的事情 forest 森林 healing properties 治疗功效 oxygen 氧气 carbon dioxide emissions 二氧化碳排放 deforestation 毁林，大面积砍伐森林 vegetation 植被，植物 resources 资源 fungal network 真菌网络 tree root 树根 bacteria 细菌 fungi 真菌，真菌类植物 hyphae 菌丝 nutrient 养分，营养物 Wood Wide Web “树联网” offspring 后代，产物 seedling 幼苗 kin 同族，亲戚 flourish 茁壮成长 |
三、测试与练习
【参考答案】
1. 阅读课文并回答问题。
1. What can being surrounded by nature help us with?
Being connected with or surrounded by nature has been proven to help our mental health.
2. How do trees help improve the air quality?
Trees clean the air we breathe by absorbing about a quarter of all human-caused carbon dioxide emissions.
3. How do parent trees help their offspring to survive?
Doctor Suzanne Simard said that parent trees would favour those seedlings that were of their own kin as opposed to the strangers by sending them more nutrients.
4. True or false? Trees talk to each other by using thousands of superfine threads of fungi under the ground.
True. Trees talk to each other using thousands of superfine threads of fungi, known as hyphae, which are all interconnected.
5. Why do trees need to adapt if they want to survive?
They need to adapt because the environment is changing.
2. 选择意思恰当的单词或词组来完成下列句子。
1. Watching the comedy film really lifted my spirits after a hard day at work.
2. To survive in the modern world, the business has to adapt its working practices.
3. My brother and his offspring always come over for dinner on Sundays.
4. None of the crops grew because there was a lack of nutrients in the soil.
5. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the wonders of the natural world.
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