1. It is logical that a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient.

　　detail 細(xì)節(jié)

　　property 屬性

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：A

　　Plants and Mankind

　　Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. We dont know what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient.This is logical.

　　2. People can not survive without plants.

　　viv=life

　　survive 幸存

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：A

　　basis 基礎(chǔ)

　　pyramid 金字塔

　　Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the welfare of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and many other purposes.

　　3. Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon teach botany to their children at school.

　　Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. To them botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of knowledge at all.

　　botany 植物學(xué)

　　branch 分支

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B

　　4. Our direct contact with plants grows with the process of industrialization.

　　industry 工業(yè)

　　industrial 工業(yè)的

　　industrialization 工業(yè)化

　　modernization 現(xiàn)代化

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B

　　Unfortunately, the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge of botany grows.

　　5. Today people usually acquire a large amount of botanical knowledge from textbooks.

　　acquire=learn=get 學(xué)習(xí)，得到

　　Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid.

　　conscious 有意識(shí)的

　　unconscious 無(wú)意識(shí)的

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B

　　6. People living in the Middle East first learned to grow plants for food about 10,000 years ago.

　　When our Neolithic ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer yields the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken.

　　ancestors 祖先

　　harvest 收獲，收割

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：A

　　7. Once mankind began farming, they no longer had to get food from many varieties that grew wild.

　　farming 莊稼種植

　　Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: cultivated crops. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.

　　increasingly=gradually 漸漸地

　　once 一旦=at once 馬上

　　=right away

　　=immediately

　　=right now

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B

　　1. It is logical that a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient.

　　detail 細(xì)節(jié)

　　property 屬性

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：A

　　Plants and Mankind

　　Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. We dont know what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient.This is logical.

　　2. People can not survive without plants.

　　viv=life

　　survive 幸存

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：A

　　basis 基礎(chǔ)

　　pyramid 金字塔

　　Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the welfare of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and many other purposes.

　　3. Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon teach botany to their children at school.

　　Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. To them botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of knowledge at all.

　　botany 植物學(xué)

　　branch 分支

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B

　　4. Our direct contact with plants grows with the process of industrialization.

　　industry 工業(yè)

　　industrial 工業(yè)的

　　industrialization 工業(yè)化

　　modernization 現(xiàn)代化

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B

　　Unfortunately, the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge of botany grows.

　　5. Today people usually acquire a large amount of botanical knowledge from textbooks.

　　acquire=learn=get 學(xué)習(xí)，得到

　　Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid.

　　conscious 有意識(shí)的

　　unconscious 無(wú)意識(shí)的

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B

　　6. People living in the Middle East first learned to grow plants for food about 10,000 years ago.

　　When our Neolithic ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer yields the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken.

　　ancestors 祖先

　　harvest 收獲，收割

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：A

　　7. Once mankind began farming, they no longer had to get food from many varieties that grew wild.

　　farming 莊稼種植

　　Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: cultivated crops. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.

　　increasingly=gradually 漸漸地

　　once 一旦=at once 馬上

　　=right away

　　=immediately

　　=right now

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Not mentioned

　　「答案」：B