[originaltext] Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in t

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问题  
Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights. It is impossible to know today just what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of pre-industrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must ha extremely ancient This is logical.
   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 a great many other purposes. Tribes living today in the jangles of the Amazon recognize literally hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. To them, botany, as such, has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of "knowledge" at all.
   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. Yet everyone unconsciously has an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid. 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. That was the first great step in a new association between plants and animals. Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: cultivated crops.

选项 A、People who live in Amazon tribes don’t think plants are the basis of the food pyramid.
B、People who live in Amazon tribes don’t regard botany as a special branch of knowledge.
C、People who live in Amazon tribes know all the properties of plants in the jungle.
D、People who live in Amazon tribes give some special names to botany.

答案 B

解析 信息明示题。由文章中的To them, botany, as such, has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of "knowledge" at all可知,亚马逊的部落没有把植物学看作是一门专门的学科,所以B正确。
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