雅思阅读材料：Signs of spring delayed by freeze_雅思英语阅读

雅思阅读材料：Signs of spring delayed by freeze

　　Tim Sparks, founder of Natures Calendar, which allows the public to report signs of the seasons across the country and help experts gain an accurate picture of how temperature changes are affecting nature, attributed this years slow start down to the coldest December in 100 years of records.

　　It was that cold month which has delayed flowering of things like celandines and snowdrops, he said.

　　But with fairly average temperatures experienced in January, the cold winter is not likely to delay the rest of spring, with bluebells, wood anemones and the leafing of oak trees expected to occur on time.

　　And because spring has been held up until now, events could unfold rapidly unless there is another cold snap.

　　We expect these things thundering through now, I think its going to come through very rapidly, he said.

　　Things will come on in much of a rush because theyve been held back.

　　By the time we get to hawthorn and bluebells, later spring events, theyre going to be the usual time or could even be earlier, he suggested.

　　To mark the beginning of spring, the Woodland Trust, along with the National Trust, Wildlife Trusts and the RSPB, are helping people find their way into the woods to see the tell-tale signs of the new season.

　　A new VisitWoods website maps nearly 14,000 woodlands across the UK, allowing people to put in their postcode and find their nearest publicly accessible woods.