小嘻学长 资料分享 选词填空(15 选10) Botany, the study of plants, has a highly valued position in the history of human knowledge
From what we have 1) observed of preindustrial (工业化以前的) societies, a detailed study of plants must have been pretty ancient
Plants are the 2) basis of food for all living things, even for some other plants
They have always been 3) enormously important to human beings, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, medicines, shelter, and many other 4) purposes
People who lived in the jungle of the Amazon can recognize a wide 5) range of plants and know their properties
To them, botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of “knowledge” at all
However, 6) unfortunately, the more industrialized we become, the farther away we move f