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第二篇

Piants and Mankind

Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. We

don't know what our Stone Age(1) ancestors knew about plants. but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist, a detailed learming of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient(2) . This is logical. Plants are the basis of the food pyramind 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(3) medicines, shelter, and many other purposes. Tribes living today in the jungle of Amazon(4) 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”al all.

Unforrunately, the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct contact

with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge of botany grows. Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge(5), and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid(6) When our Neolithic(7) ancestcrs, 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 fi.rst great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken. 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 (8).

词汇：

botany/’b?t?ni/n．植物学yield /ji:ld/n．产量，收益

detailed /"di:teild/ adj.详细的，详尽的marvel/'ma:v?l/n．令人惊奇的propPrty /’pr?p?ti

/n．(1)特征（2>财产，资产事（人），奇迹

logical / ?l?d?ik?l / adj.逻辑的，合乎逻辑的variety /v?'rai?ti/ n．(1)品种，变

pyramid /'pir?mid/n．金字塔种(2)变化，多样化

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welfare /'welfe?/n．福利，幸福，康乐accumulate /?'kj u:mj uleit/ vt.积累，积聚

intimacy /ntim?si/n．亲近，亲密

注释：

1．Stone Age:石器时代

2．…a detailed learning of plants and thei r properties must be extremely

ancient．：……对植物及其特点的详细了解一定非常久远。

3． dye:染料

4．the Amazon:亚马孙河

5．Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge；…而

每个人都会在无意识中获得大量的植物知识，……come on：（偶然）遇见；（偶然）发现。又如：I came

on this idea by pure chance,我有这个想法纯属偶然。

6．orchid:兰花

7．Neolithic:新石器时代的

8. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production

ofa 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 intimacy with plants in

the wild would begin to fade away.：从那时起，人类就越来越多地从可控制的几种植物的种植中获取

生计，而不是从野生的众多种类中东采一点，西摘一点。在数万年的经验中积累起来的知识以及与大

自然中各种植物的紧密联系也就开始消失。take their living from..：靠……过活。

练习：

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

(一段3行)

A. Right

B. wrong

C. Not mentioned

2. People cannot survive without plants.(一段4行- 6行) .

A. Right

B. wrong

C. Not mentioned

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3. Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon teach botany to their children at school.-（一

段7行-9行）

A. Right

B. wrong

C. Not mentioned

4. Our direct contact with plants grows with the process of industrialization.（二段1行）

A. Right

B. wrong

C. Not mentioned

5. Today people usually acquire a large amount of botanicaI knowledge from textbooks. （二

段2行）

A. Right

B. wrong

C. Not mentioned

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

ago.(二段4-6行)

A. Right

B. wrong

C. Not mentioned

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

varieties that grew wild.

A. Right

B. wrong

C. Not mentioned

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