Can plants talk? Modern research has found something amazing: they do ________ with each other.

It has been known that plants use chemicals (化学物质) to communicate with each other. This happens ________ a plant gets attacked (攻击) by insects. The plant ________ chemicals from the leaves that are being eaten. This is like a warning, or a call for help. When another plant gets the chemicals, it starts to give out its own chemicals. Some of these chemicals drive insects away. Others attract (吸引) the ________. The bees kill the insects.

More ________, plants have an amazing system of communication that can connect nearly every ________ in a forest. Scientists call this system the “wood wide web”. The wood wide web connects different plants to each other. Using the wood wide web, plants can ________ information and even food with each other. However, some plants may use it to ________ chemicals to attack other plants. Perhaps one day scientists will learn how to create a “firewall” to help________ these attacks within the wood wide web.

Scientists are studying to learn more about the secret ________ plants talk to each other. Maybe one day we will know enough about their communication so that we are able to “talk” with them ourselves.

Gardening is my favorite hobby. We usually _________ summers in a small village not far from my hometown. My mother and grandmother _________ berries, vegetables and fruit. My father and I help them to plant the seeds, to water the plants, and to gather the crop(作物).

We usually have a good crop of strawberries, cucumbers(黄瓜) , and tomatoes. My younger brother and I eat a lot of fresh berries in summer, and my parents also make strawberry jam for _________ .

I grow my favorite flowers in my garden. Tulips are the _________ flowers that appear in my little garden in spring. They grow very _________. Then are snapdragon(金鱼草) and other plants. I’m also _________ a small flower bed for roses. Roses are very beautiful, _________ they are not easy to grow. I’m reading an interesting book _________ gardening. The book is full of _________ tips on growing flowers. 1 hope to have nice roses next summer.

During autumn and winter I grow all kinds of flowers on the windowsills (窗台). My eyes really rest when I look at __________ plants.

In Zhangjiajie you will find plants cover nearly 70 percent. More than 1.000 kinds of trees grow there. There are so ________ trees that it’s hard to remember their names.

But there’s one kind that's famous not just for its age but also for its flowers. That’s the dove (鸽子) tree.

The dove tree has been on the earth ________ more than 3 million years. The ________ one stands at 30 meters; its leaves are in the shape of an egg and feel like paper. If you visit Zhangjiajie in early summer,you will see the dove tree in full bloom. ________ of doves rest on the trees. Well, take another look. They are not real doves but petals (花瓣). When the wind blows, the petals start to dance. ________ look like doves opening their wings. That’s where the name comes from.