How much do you know about plants?Unit4Skimming Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea of this passage?Reading ScanningT or F Questions:1. The plants in our garden grew in China originally.F2. The American Middle Classes took great interest in collecting new plants during the 18th and 19th centuries.F____________________3. French Catholic missionaries were beginning to set themselves up in China by the middle of the 18th century.4. After Father d’ Incarville died, some Tree of Heaven seeds were sent to England.F5. Banks, together with James Cook, collected many examples of plants in Australia.6. Keeping plants alive during long land or sea voyage was very difficult, which caused the Wardian Case to be invented.7. Robert Fortune introduced over 120 species of plants to Western Gardens, because he could easily travel everywhere in China.8. During the second half of the 19th century, many Catholic missionaries were sent to China, and they collected many seeds of plants, which were sent back to France.FDetailed reading:Detailed reading:Try to get the main idea of each paragraph:Try to get the main idea of each paragraph:Para 1:explains when plant collecting began.Para 2:describes when and where plant collecting began on a large scale by Europeans.Para 3: talks about French Catholic missionaries who collected plants in China in the 18th century.Para 4:is about the famous British plant collector, Sir Joseph Banks, who collected many new plants in Australia.Para 5: explains the problems of keeping plants alive on long trips.Para 6:describes an experiment carried out by Dr Nathaniel Ward who invented a glass case in which to transport plants on long journeys.Para 8: is about Father Farges, a...
