2012年浙江英语高考部分模拟及答案.doc

第三部分: 阅读（共两节, 4分）阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑（共小题；每小题2分, 共0分）available for him to study. In 1583, an Italian named Andrea Cesalpino(1519-1603) wrote a book that was simply called De Plantis. Cesalpino was the first person to write a significant modern classification of plants since the Greek, Theophrastus, in about 340 B. C.. Before Cesalpino, plants had been classified by their location, such as marsh plants, moorland(open plains) plants or foreign plants. Cesalpino classified them according to their structure, which was a beginning of precise scientific classification. Then a Swiss botanist named Gasperd Bauhin(1560-1624) developed another plant classification in his book, Exposition of Plants in 1623. This was a very large study of 6000 species(物种). He had studied Cesalpino’s work carefully and improved it. He attempted to classify all known plants up to that time. The Englishman John Ray(1627-1705) toured England with a friend named Francis Willoughby from 1663 to 1666. Together, they wrote the book Catalogue of English Plants. He included 18000 plant species by the time of his death. He divided all flowering plants into monocotyledons and dicotyledons. He also noticed the leaves were veined differently. He carefully described plant locations, and possible uses in medicine. Carl Linnaeus obtained a degree in medicine and his interest in the use of the plant and herbs for medicinal use was natural. His professors realized Linnaeus was a brilliant student so he was allowed to lecture on botany in his medical school in Uppsala, Sweden. By the age of 25, he had decided he would invent an original classification system that would classify all living things. By age 28, he wrote the book System of Nature. Here he introduced a classifying system for every plant and animal by class, order, and species. His classification is now used everywhere in the world. 56. Who wrote the book De Plantis？ A. Carl Linnaeus. B. Gasperd Bauhin. C. Andrea Ce