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Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of
Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of
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2025-03-27
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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 be 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 peoples, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and a great many other purposes. Tribes living today in the jungles 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 comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid. 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. 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 get 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. [br] The relationship between botany and agriculture is similar to the relationship between zoology (the study of animals) and______.
选项
A、deer hunting
B、bird watching
C、sheep raising
D、horseback riding
答案
C
解析
求解本题的关键在于搞清植物学与农业的关系,然后从四个答案中找出与之相似的一对关系。植物学是对植物进行的学术研究;农业则是对植物的实际人工利用,人经过自己的劳动,生产出植物作为食物,并使之造福于人类。根据这种关系,动物学是对动物的研究。比较四个选择答案,只有C项sheep raising(养羊)可与之相配。因为养羊是对动物的一种实际人工利用。
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