Unit4 Green worldUnit4 Green worldRose Rose Tulip Tulip Sunflower Sunflower Peony Peony the Chinese national flowerTHE BIRTH OF A SCIENCE botany botany Fast reading How many people are mentioned in the passage?Carl Linnaeus Daniel Solander Joseph BanksCaptain CookRead the text and choose the best answer,including the exercises on page 31.Careful reading Before Linnaeus botany was _Astudied by doctors Bunknown tO anyoneCfully developed Da branch of medicine2.Some economic species plants such as_could help to develop local economiesArose and peony Btea and appleCcocoa and hemp DCocoa and lemon3.It was _ who made Kew a centre of scientific and economic researchAJoseph Banks BCaptain CookCLinnaeus D Daniel Solander4.Paragraph one of the text mainly tells us _ Athe importance of botanyBhow to classify plant species into groupsCLinnaeuscontribution tO botanyDLinnaeusdiscoveries about different species5.Captain Cook made _voyages altogether around the world.Aone BTwo CThree D.four1.When did botany become a special science?2.How was plant species classied before the work of Carl Linnaeus?3.What is the difference between Linnaeus system and that of the other scientists?4.Was Daniel Solander a member of the Royal Society?5.What did Joseph Banks do on the three-year voyage?6.What was the relationship among the three persons?7.What great contributions did Joseph Banks make to the birth of botany as a science?Read the text again and discuss the following questions with your partner。
