职称英语(综合类)辅导阅读判断三
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1. It is logical that a detailed1 learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient.
  detail 细节
  property 属性
  A. Right
  B. Wrong
  C. Not mentioned
  「答案」:A
  Plants and Mankind
  Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar2 position in the history of human knowledge. We don’t 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 基础
  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 植物学
  branch 分支
  3. Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon teach botany to their children at school.
  A. Right
  B. Wrong
  C. Not mentioned
  「答案」:B
  4. Our direct contact with plants grows with the process of industrialization.
  industry 工业
  industrial 工业的
  industrialization 工业化
  modernization3 现代化
  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 学习,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 orchid4.
  conscious 有意识的
  unconscious 无意识的
  5. Today people usually acquire a large amount of botanical knowledge from textbooks.
  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 Neolithic5 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 收获,收割
  6. People living in the Middle East first learned to grow plants for food about 10,000 years ago.
  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 庄稼种植
  Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel6 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 intimacy7 with plants in the wild would begin to fade away.
  increasingly=gradually 渐渐地
  once 一旦=at once 马上
  =right away
  =immediately
  =right now
  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
  「答案」:B


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1 detailed xuNzms     
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
参考例句:
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
2 peculiar cinyo     
adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的
参考例句:
  • He walks in a peculiar fashion.他走路的样子很奇特。
  • He looked at me with a very peculiar expression.他用一种很奇怪的表情看着我。
3 modernization nEyxp     
n.现代化,现代化的事物
参考例句:
  • This will help us achieve modernization.这有助于我们实现现代化。
  • The Chinese people are sure to realize the modernization of their country.中国人民必将实现国家现代化。
4 orchid b02yP     
n.兰花,淡紫色
参考例句:
  • The orchid is a class of plant which I have never tried to grow.兰花这类植物我从来没种过。
  • There are over 35 000 species of orchid distributed throughout the world.有35,000多种兰花分布在世界各地。
5 neolithic 9Gmx7     
adj.新石器时代的
参考例句:
  • Cattle were first domesticated in Neolithic times.新石器时代有人开始驯养牛。
  • The monument was Stone Age or Neolithic.该纪念碑是属于石器时代或新石器时代的。
6 marvel b2xyG     
vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异;n.令人惊异的事
参考例句:
  • The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
  • The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。
7 intimacy z4Vxx     
n.熟悉,亲密,密切关系,亲昵的言行
参考例句:
  • His claims to an intimacy with the President are somewhat exaggerated.他声称自己与总统关系密切,这有点言过其实。
  • I wish there were a rule book for intimacy.我希望能有个关于亲密的规则。
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