Составить пересказ , в 12 предложений botany may not be regarded by many as the most exciting of careers, but i can honestly say that i have never found it anything but enthralling. i have had the great fortune to travel virtually the entire world for my job looking for plant species. last year, my research took me to madagascar, one of the most beautiful and fascinating countries i have ever had the good fortune to visit. madagascar is an island about the size of france off the south-east coast of africa. it is a biologist's dream. what is more, an estimated 80% of these are found nowhere else on earth. the reason that madagascar has such a treasure trove of unique species is that its animal and plant life have been evolving in isolation for millions of years. it is estimated that madagascar broke away from the indian subcontinent somewhere between 80 and 100 million years ago making it the world's oldest island.with such a tremendous collection of species under its care, the madagascan government has set aside about fifty areas of special interest as national parks. one of the most beautiful is the tsingy bemaraha national park tsingy consists of deciduous forests and mangrove swamps sitting on towering, jagged limestone rocks. below ground, there is an enormous network of caves, rivers and streams. there are bird, reptile, lemur and frog species in the park the aye-aye, the world's largest nocturnal primate, lives there too. it has a very odd appearance - luminous, beady eyes and a very long middle finger on both its hands.it was in this truly incredible wildlife habitat that i gathered the majority of my plant samples. getting to many of the plants in tsingy can be a struggle because of the terrain. you have to be prepared to climb and scramble over this wonderful rocky landscape. the limestone pinnacles soar above 150 feet in some places. the plants cling precariously to the sharp peaks and towering cliffs. those on the tops of the rocks have had to adapt to extreme conditions - burning heat and long periods of drought - so they do not have leaves, but instead are covered in thorns. on the other hand, those on the canyon floor have water, but live in shadow. the lack of light means they have to stretch up towards the sky to grasp whatever sunlight they can and so they have unusually long stems and branches.to date, we, botanists, have counted roughly 650 species in tsingy. most of these have not been investigated, but research in laboratories, like the one i work in, will hopefully discover if any are of medicinal value. i have high hopes. madagascar is home to the rosy periwinkle, suspect there are many more madagascan plants with potential disease-curing properties.
I think, Narnia - it's very fantasy and unreal beautiful country. And I want live in the Narnia. Let's imagine it.
Narnia - it's lovely country the streets will be very aesthetic. People will be very erudite and creative. I would like people not to have any bad qualities in Narnia, the country where I could live. Everyone had money and no one asked for alms, as is often the case in reality. In Narnia, absolutely all children will have the concept of an orphanage, a boarding school they are not familiar with. There will be no misunderstandings in families, for example, between teenagers and parents. In the country of my dreams, there will be everything that is so lacking in routine reality
Narnia is a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the primary location for his series of seven fantasy novels for children, The Chronicles of Narnia. The world is so called after the country of Narnia, in which much of the action of the Chronicles takes place.The country of Narnia is where most of the action of the series is set. According to the mythology of the series, Narnia was created by the great lion, Aslan, and is filled with talking animals and mythical creatures. C. S. Lewis may have taken the name from the Italian town of Narni, whose Latin name was in fact Narnia. Narnia features rolling hills rising into low mountains to the south, and is predominantly forested except for marshlands in the north. In the first year of Narnia, the Creation of Narnia was witnessed by six creatures: Jadis, Empress of Charn, Digory Kirke, Polly Plummer, Andrew Ketterley, Frank the cabman, and his cab horse Strawberry. During a failed attempt by Digory to transfer Jadis from London in our world back to her own world of Charn, the group arrived in the unmade darkness of Narnia just prior to Aslan calling it into being.