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さて、また新シリーズを始めたいと思います（決してネタ切れなどではありませんよ
）今回のシリーズは「英語のニュースにチャレンジ！」です
リーディングとリスニングを両方勉強できるのがニュースサイトのいい所なので、是非このニュースを使って勉強していこうというのがこの新シリーズの趣旨です。
このニュースサイトは非常にゆっくり話してくれるので、上級者には物足りないと思います。
ですので初級者～中級者にオススメです。
では、第一回目のニュースはコチラ
Scientists Discover Secrets of Coffee
←このアイコンをクリックするとこのニュースの音声が聞けますAn international team of researchers has created a sequence, or map, of the genes of the coffee plant known as Robusta. About one-third of the coffee drunk worldwide comes from this plant.
The researchers call coffee “the irresistible bean that delivers the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world.”
Researchers hope to use the map they created to make changes to the plant’s genes.
The researchers were surprised to discover the genes for caffeine. They discovered coffee’s caffeine genes are not linked to the caffeine genes in the cacao tree. Cacao beans are used to make chocolate.
With the new gene map, researchers say they may be able to develop plants that can survive climate change. They may also be able to create a coffee plant that does not have caffeine. The researchers say that would let growers and coffee makers produce coffee that tastes better than the kind that has the caffeine removed.
We drink 2.5 billion cups of coffee every day. Coffee is the main agricultural crop in many tropical countries.
The genetic map of the coffee plant Robusta was published in the journal Science. The researchers say the plant “joins a long list of crop species that have been sequenced using ever-improving” computer programs.
I’m Christopher Cruise.
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Words in This Story
psychoactive – adj. having an effect on the brain; used to describe the effects of a drug
plant - v. to put into the ground to grow; n. a living growth from the ground which gets its food from air, water and earth
map - n. a picture of the earth’s surface or a part of it
discover - v. to find or learn something
produce - v. to make; to create; to cause something to be; to manufacture
crop(s) - n. plants that are grown and gathered for food, such as grains, fruits and vegetables
（出典元：VOA - Voice of America Learning English）
＜補足＞
gene - a part of a cell in a living thing that controls what it looks like, how it grows, and how it develops. People get their genes from their parents
irresistible - so attractive, desirable etc that you cannot prevent yourself from wanting it
★もし他にもわからない単語があったらLongman English Dictionary Onlineで調べましょう！
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