[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:After the Fire] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:13.07]What was the danger to the villages after the fire? [00:20.45]Firemen had been fighting the forest fire [00:23.41]for nearly three weeks before they could get it under control. [00:29.22]A short time before, great trees had covered the countryside for miles around. [00:36.60]Now, smoke still rose up from the warm ground over the desolate hills. [00:44.22]Winter was coming on and the hills threatened [00:47.69]the surrounding villages with destruction, [00:51.19]for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil [00:55.21]but would cause serious floods as well. [00:59.74]When the fire had at last been put out, [01:03.22]the forest authorities ordered several tons of a special type of grass-seed which would grow quickly. [01:11.49]The seed was sprayed over the ground in huge quantities by aeroplanes. [01:19.22]The planes had been planting seed for nearly a month when it began to rain. [01:25.87]By then, however, in many places the grass had already taken root. [01:32.16]In place of the great trees which had been growing there for centuries, [01:36.80]patches of green had begun to appear in the blackened soil.