BBC 6 minutes-Day 7-Gardening

Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

1 Sophie admits that she is a keen .......

2 Sophie does not think Neil has a ...... ability for cultivating plants. 

3 Sophine consider gardening a calming and relaxing activity because she can ..... with nature. 

4 Sophine advises Neil to put on ..... clothing to protect himself from insects.  

5 Dr Christopher Lowry discovered that animals such as mice can swim for a long time, if injected with antidepressant .... 

6 Those people who suffer alcoholism can break their ......by gardening. 

7 Up to ....per cent of people in the UK would like to spend their woking day in gardening. 

相关词伙

照顾花草do a spot of gardening

园艺爱好者a keen gardener

擅长做园艺 have green fingers

种菜种花的天赋a natural ability for growing plants

松土和做园艺活 breaking the soil

治疗上瘾treat addiction

戒掉（烟、酒等）瘾breaking addiction

与自然亲密接触commune with nature

亲近大自然feel close to nature

融入大自然be a part of nature

让我们心旷神怡 give us a natural high

上班时间 spend the working day

被开除got expelled

被开除expelled from school

答案和出处

1

gardener 

Neil: So, you are you a keen gardener?

2

natural 

I wasn't asking whether you literally have green fingers! Having green fingers means a natural ability for growing plants.

3

commune 

Sophie:Yes, I do. Being in the fresh air, in all weathers, communing with nature…

4

protective

Try wearing protective clothing next time – and maybe a nose plug too! A creepy-crawly is a small insect, by the way.

5

drugs

if you treat animals with antidepressant drugs and then put the animals in just a beaker of water it would cause the animals to swim for longer periods of time.

6

recovering alcoholics have been given the opportunity to plant, grow, and even sell their produce. These addicts are literally breaking their addiction by breaking the soil.

7

70 

 The results also revealed that 70% said that given the choice, they would prefer to spend their working day in the garden