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WhywasCarlLinnaeusimportanttothehistoryofbotanyasascience?Listening

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CarlLinnaeusdevelopedanewsystemtoclassifytheplantspecies.SkimmingWhendidbotanybecomeaspecialscience?Aftertheeighteenthcentury.2.HowwasplantspeciesclassifiedbeforetheworkofCarlLinnaeus?Plantsareclassifiedintoherbsandtrees,accordingtotheshapeofthefruit,orwhethertheyhadflowersornot.3.WhatisthedifferencebetweenLinnaeus’systemandthatoftheotherscientists?InLinnaeus’system,theidentificationofdifferentspecieswasbasedonthearrangementof

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intheflowers,whiletheotherscientistsclassifiedplantsintoherbsandtrees,accordingtotheshapeofthefruit,orwhethertheyhadflowersornot.4.WasDanielSolanderamemberoftheRoyalSociety?No,hewasn’t.5.WhatdidJosephBanksdoonthethree-yearvoyage?Ontheirthree-yearvoyage,JosephBanksdidnotonlystudyanddescribenewplantshefound,healsolookedoutforneweconomicspeciesandbecamethefirsttomove

cropsfromonecontinenttoanotheronalargescale.6.Whatwastherelationshipamongthethreepersons?DanielSolanderwasthestudentofLinnaeusandalifelongfriendofJosephBanks.

7.WhatgreatcontributionsdidJosephBanksmaketothebirthofbotanyasascience?Hediscoveredmanynewanimalsandplantsduringthethree-yearvoyage;hewasinvolvedinenterprisessuchastheexplorationofAfricaandthesettlementofAustralia.Duringhis42-yearpresidencyoftheRoyalSociety,hehelpedtodeveloptheroyalgardensatKewintooneofthegreatestbotanicalgardensintheworld;heaccumulatedagreatdealofknowledgeaboutplantsandagriculture;healsobuiltagreenhousetoexperimentwithgrowingpineapples;anditwashewhomadeKewacenterofscientificandeconomicresearch.Post-reading1.WhatwerethegoalsofJamesCook’sfirstvoyagearoundtheworld?ThegoalsofJamesCook’sfirstvoyagearoundtheworld:theprimarygoalwastostudythepassingoftheplanetVenusacrossthesun;thesecondpurposewastorecord,classifyanddescribeallplantandanimallifeobservedduringthetrip;thethirdonewastosearchforanunknownsoutherncontinent.2.WhydidJosephBankshavetosupplyhisownmoneytoequippartoftheexpedition?ThereasonwastheBritishgovernmentwouldnotpayforanewfieldofscienceasbotany.3.HowdidscientistsclassifyplantsbeforeLinnaeus?BeforeLinnaeus,thescientistsclassifiedplantsinthisway:theyclassifiedplantsintoherbsandtrees,oraccordingtotheshapeofthefruit,orwhethertheyhadflowersornot.3.Whatcouldbeapossibleexplanationforthename““strawberry””?Apossibleexplanationforthename““strawberry”:berrieslikestraw.LanguagePoints1.Despitehiswealth,heworkedtomakeacareerinscience.wealth意为““财富”，，多用作不不可数名词词。Hegainedhis____byprinting____offamouswriters.(NMET1995)A.wealth;workB.wealths;worksC.wealths;workD.wealth;works析：根据wealth的的词性，可可排除B、、C；works意意为“作品品，著作””。C2.Secondly,thepurposeoftheexpedi-tionwastorecord,classifyanddescribeallplantandanimallifeobservedduringthetrip.动词不定式式可用作表表语，表示示主语的具体内容容，尤其可可用于指未未发生的情况。Thepurposeofnewtechnologyistomakelifeeasier,_____itmoredifficult.(上上海2005春)A.notmakingB.notmakeC.nottomakeD.nortomakeC析：两个或或多个不定定式表示并并列或递进进关系时，，后面的不不定式符号号to常常常省略，但但当它们表表示对比关关系时，不不定式符号号to常常常保留。本题题意为为“新技术术的目的是是使生活更更容易，而而不是让生生活更艰难难”，两个个不定式之之间是对比比关系。Practice1._________hadbeenmadebyothersto_______plantspeciesintogroups,butthebreakthrough___________theworkofCarlLinnaeus.Attemptsclassifycamewith2.In1768,theRoyalNavy_________JamesCookasthecommanderoftheEndeavortotakemembersof________________onan___________toTahiti.appointedtheRoyalSocietyexpedition3.Healso_____________neweconomicspecies:plantsthatcouldbegrowninEnglandorotherpartsoftheworldtoproducecropsthatcouldbesold.lookedoutfor4.Bankswasthefirsttomovecropsfromonecontinenttoanother__________________,helpingtodeveloplocaleconomieswiththesenewimports.largescaleona5.Darwin’s_____________onthatvoyageledhimtowritehisfamousbookOntheOriginofSpecies.observations6.Backhome,inEngland,Darwin_______thatdifferencesinhabitatcouldleadtodifferentspeciesinbirds_________inplants.realizedaswellas7.___________ofDarwinandMendel’sresearch,scientistsofthenineteenthcenturyformedthebeliefthatthe__________oftheenvironmentwasbehindthedevelopmentofnewspecies.Asaresultinfluence8.Itwouldtakeanext__________ofscientiststo______theimportanceoftheenvironmentonspeciesbackinview.generationbring9.Turessonfound___________theexistenceof______________withinspeciesinnature.ev