[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（美音）] [ti:After the Fire] [by:更多学习内容，请到查字典英语网yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:10.30]What was the danger to the villages after the fire? [00:16.43]Firemen had been fighting the forest fire for nearly three weeks before they could get it under control. [00:24.71]A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around. [00:32.82]Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate hills. [00:40.73]Winter was coming on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction, [00:48.68]for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil but would cause serious floods as well. [00:56.96]When the fire had at last been put out, [01:00.53]the forest authorities ordered several tons of a special type of grass-seed which would grow quickly. [01:08.80]The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aeroplanes. [01:15.84]The planes had been planting seed for nearly a month when it began to rain. [01:21.84]By then, however, in many places the grass had already taken root. [01:28.38]In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries, [01:33.66]patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.