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一、理工C 阅读理解 第九篇 An Essential Scientific Process 　　All life on the earth depends upon green plants. Using sunlight, the plants produce their own food. Then animals feed upon the plants. They take in the nutrients the plants have made and stored. But that’s not all. Sunlight also helps a plant produce oxygen. Some of the oxygen is used by the plant, but a plant usually produces more oxygen than it uses. The excess oxygen is necessary for animals and other organisms to live. 　　The process of changing light into food and oxygen is called photosynthesis. Besides light energy from the sun, plants