高考英语最新热点时文阅读：罕见!国家植物园巨魔芋首次结实

Titan Arums produced fruit for the first
time in China
罕见！国家植物园巨魔芋首次结实
Recently, the bright red fruit of two Titan Arums have ripened in China National Botanical Garden in China's capital Beijing. Record show that this is the first time that the plants have produced fruit under cultivation in a botanical garden across China.
最近，首都北京的国家植物园又传来好消息：国家植物园（北园）展览温室两株火红的巨魔芋结实。

记录显示，这是该植物国内首次实现首次巨魔芋结实。

Titan Arum is also known as the “corpse flower” because of its stinky corpse-like smell to attract pollinators when it's in full bloom. The species is endemic to the rainforests on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, but has been introduced to botanical gardens worldwide.
巨魔芋也被称为“尸花”，因为当它盛开的时候，它像尸体一样的臭味吸引着传粉者。

巨魔芋是印度尼西亚苏门答腊岛热带雨林的特有物种，被引入世界各地的植物园。

To see a Titan Arums flowering is extremely difficult as it happens only 3-4 times in a lifetime, and each time it blooms for no more than 2 days. The world's artificial
cultivation of flowering times has only succeeded a little more than 100 times.
巨魔芋开花极难，一生只开3-4次花，每次开花不超过2天，全世界人工栽培开花次数仅100余次。

Unlike other plants, the Titan Arum flowers occasionally and its florescence is unpredictable, which makes it even more difficult to harvest its fruits. The species is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
与其他植物不同的是，巨魔芋开花较为少见，花期不可预测，这使得结实更加困难。

该物种被国际自然保护联盟列为濒危物种。

重点词汇
1. cultivation
英[ˌ kʌltɪˈ veɪʃ(ə)n] 美[ˌ kʌltɪˈ veɪʃ(ə)n]
n. 栽培，种植
2. stinky
英[ˈ stɪŋki] 美[ˈ stɪŋki]
adj. 发恶臭的，十分难闻的
听双语新闻-填词
Titan Arums produced fruit for the first time in China
Botanical Garden in China's capital Beijing. Record show that this is the first time that the plants have produced fruit under cultivation in a botanical garden across China.
Titan Arum is also known as the “corpse flower” because of its stinky corpse-like smell to 2 pollinators when it's in full bloom. The species is endemic to the rainforests on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, but has been introduced to botanical gardens worldwide.
To see a Titan Arums flowering is extremely difficult as it happens only 3-4 times in a lifetime, and each time it blooms for no more than 2 days. The world's 3 cultivation of flowering times has only succeeded a little more than 100 times.
Unlike other plants, the Titan Arum flowers occasionally and its florescence is unpredictable, which makes it even more difficult to harvest its fruits. The species is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
听双语新闻-语法填空
Titan Arums produced fruit for the first time in China
Botanical Garden in China's capital Beijing. Record show that this is the first time that the plants have produced fruit under cultivation in a botanical garden across China.
Titan Arum is also known as the “corpse flower” because of its stinky corpse-like smell to attract pollinators when it's in full bloom. The species is endemic to the rainforests on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, but has been 1 (introduce) to botanical gardens worldwide.
To see a Titan Arums flowering is 2 (extreme) difficult as it happens only 3-4 times in a lifetime, and each time it blooms for no more than 2 days. The world's artificial cultivation of flowering times has only 3 (succeed) a little more than 100 times.
Unlike other plants, the Titan Arum flowers occasionally and its florescence is unpredictable, which makes it even more difficult to harvest its fruits. The species is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
填词练习答案
1. bright
2. attract
3. artificial
语法填空答案
1. introduced
2. extremely
3. succeeded。