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Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For not many thousands of years it

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问题 Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge.  For not many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the vaguest of insights(了解). 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 probab-ly 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 age, 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 getting a little here and a little there from many varie-ties 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.
选项 A、probably had extensive knowledge of plants
B、thought there was no need to cultivate crops
C、did not enjoy the study of botany
D、placed great importance on the ownership of property
答案A
解析 问及早期人类对于植物的知识是什么样的。由第一段第四句“但是从我们对于现在还存在的工业化以前的社会的观察中能够发现的情况来看，对于植物和它们的特性的详细研究一定很古老”，可以推断出A项“可能拥有关于植物的广泛的知识”是正确的，其他选项没有相关的原文信息。
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