This Flower Stinks
Thousands of people went to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden(植物园). They wanted to see a Flower called a titan arum. The huge plant was over five and a half feet tall. However, it’s not the size that visitors will remember, The most surprising thing about the flower is its awful smell. Its makes most people hold their noses!
When titan arums bloom(开花) the flowers put out a smell like the body of a dead animal. That’s my many people call the plant by another name corpse(尸体)flower The flower grows in Indonesia. The people there used to believe the plant would eat them!
The gardeners at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden have a nickname for their plant, They call it “Baby,” Baby had been growing in Brooklyn for ten years but had never bloomed before. In 2006, Baby finally bloomed It was the first titan arum to bloom in New York City since 1939.
Before it bloomed. Baby grew more than 30 inches in just nine days. The tallest flowers can reach nine feet tall. Scientists knew Baby was almost ready to open up when it stopped growing. The huge flower look about two hours to open. Then the bad smell began to go everywhere. The smell of the flower can be so strong that humans can smell it over half a mile away In Indonesia people dig up the flowers to sell to collectors, but it is against the law.
Sandy Vergano, one of the scientists of the Garden, saw Baby just before it bloomed “it smelled fine when I saw it” he said. “But after it bloomed, it looked beautiful with a terrible smell, which was really interesting.”
1.The tallest titan arum can reach tall.
A. five and a half feet B. thirty inches C. half a mile D. nine feet
2.People could smell the awful smell .
A. before the flower bloomed B. after the flower was dug up
C. before the flower was dead D. after the flower opened up
3.From the passage we can learn .
A. people aren’t interested in the flower
B. the titan arum took a long time to bloom
C. people in Indonesia like collecting the flowers
D. the flower smells so good that many people went to see it
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