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Unit 4 Exploring plants Scan the title of the reading passage and the pictures and predict what it is about? Lead-in Plant Exploration in the 18th And 19th Centuries Reading Skimming Read the passage quickly and try to get the main idea of this passage? It’s about plant exploration in the 18th and 19th centuries and some plant collectors, who came to China and Australia to look for plants species. T or F Questions: 1. The plants in our garden grew in China originally. F 2. 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. F 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. F 1.The text is written in the order of___________. A. The importance of plant exploration B. The timeline of plant exploration C. The collection of plants D. The age of collectors careful reading: 2. The word “ exotic” in the first paragraph probably means______ . A. familiar B. foreign C. faraway D. various 3. Who first sent seeds of the Dove Tree to Europe? A. Robert Fortune B. E.H.Wilson C. Father Farges D. Father d’Incarville , A. The Tree of Heaven in Europe was firstly brought in from China. B. The first plant collecting expedition recorded in history was unknown. C. Father d’Incarville was sent to Beijing in the 1740s. And he took some Tree of Heaven seeds back to