九年级英语全一册The ’black tulip'的课文

　　Nature is filled with amazing plants.Some can survive in the middle of the desert.Some can grow up to 80 metres tall.Yet ,imaginary things can sometimes crate excitement more easily than real ones.In Holland,for example,there is an imaginary flower that is known as widely as any real flower.It is called the 'black tulip'
In the novel The Black Tulip written by Alexandre Dumas in 1850,a young man called Cornelius tries as hard as he can to create a black tulip,in order to win a gardening competition.But just before he succeeds,he is put in prison unfairly.He feels sad and is ready to forget about the flower.However,in prison he meets Rosa,the beautiful daughter of the prison guard.They soon fall in love and together they try to cultivate the black tulip.Of all the gardeners,Cornelius and Rose grow their flower the most quickly and they win the competition.