Do you think all plants need light, soil and water? ① . Some plants “eat” meat. These plants usually grow in places with poor soil. This soil can't give them all the food they need, so the plants have found another way of getting it —-by eating insects(昆虫) and other small creatures. Don't be afraid, though. ② . Plants only eat people in the books and film.
One famous meat-eating plant is the flytrap(捕蝇草). Insects fly into the plant and then the leaves trap them inside. ③ . Curious insects go inside for a taste and discover that the flower is slippery. They slide down and become the plant's next meal.
④ . You can grow them in flower-pots,but you must water them often.
A. Then you are wrong.
B. Another meat-eating plant, the pitcher(捕虫草), has a sweet, sticky drink.
C. They won't eat you.
D. Keeping some of these plants at home is easy.
