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Questions 26-32
Practice
You are advid to spend about 20 minutes on Questions 26-38 which are bad on Reading Passage 3.
Wild Foods of Australia
Over 120 years ago, the English botanist J. D. Hooker, writing of Australian edible plants, suggested that many of them were 'eatable but not worth eating'. Nevertheless, the Australian flora, together with the fauna, supported the Aboriginal people well before the arrival of Europeans. The Aborigines were not farmers and were wholly dependent for life on the wild products around them. They learned to eat, often after treatment, a wide variety of plants.
The conquering Europeans displaced the Aborigines, killing many, driving others from their traditional tribal lands, and eventually ttling many of the tribal remnants on government rerves, where flour and beef replaced nardoo and wallaby as staple foods. And so, gradually, the vast store of knowledge,
accumulated over thousands of years, fell into disu. Much was lost.
However, a few European men took an intelligent and even respectful interest in the people who were being displaced. Explorers. missionaries, botanists, naturalists and government officials obrved, recorded and. fortunately in some cas, published. Today we can draw on the publications to form the main basis of our knowledge of the edible, natural products of Australia. The picture is no doubt mostly incomplete. We can only speculate on the number of edible plants on which no obrvation was recorded.味道的英文
Not all our information on the subject comes from the Aborigines. Times were hard in the early days of European ttlement, and traditional foods were often in short supply or
impossibly expensive for a pioneer trying to establish a farm in the bush. And so necessity led to experimentation just as it must have done for the Aborigines and experimentation led to some lucky results. So far as is known, the Aborigines made no u of Leptospermum or Dodonaea as food plants, yet the early ttlers found that one could be ud as a substitute for tea and the other for hops. The plants are not cloly related to the species they replaced, so their u was not bad on botanical obrvation. Probably some experiments had less happy endings; L. J. Webb has ud
the expression eat, die and learn in connection with the Aboriginal experimentation, but it was the successful attempts that became widely known. It is possible the edibility of some native plants ud by the Aborigines was discovered independently by the European ttlers or their descendants.
Explorers making long expeditions found it impossible to carry sufficient food for the whole journey and were forced to rely, in part, on food that they could find on the way. Still another source of information comes from the practice in other countries. There are many species from northern Australia which occur also in southeast Asia, where they are ud for food.
In general, tho Aborigines living in the dry inland areas were largely dependent for their vegetable foods on ed such as tho of grass, acacias and eucalypts. They ground the eds between flat stones to make a coar flour. Tribes on the coast, and particularly tho in the vicinity of coastal rainforests, had a more varied vegetable diet with a higher proportion of fruits and tubers. Some of the coastal plants, even if they had grown inland, probably would have been unavailable as food since they required prolonged washing or soaking to render them non-poisonous; many of the inland tribes could not obtain water in the quantities necessary for such treatment. There was also considerable variation in the edible plants available to Aborigines in different latitudes. In general, the people who lived in the moist tropical areas enjoyed a much greater variety, than tho in the southe
rn part of Australia.
With all the hundreds of plant species ud for food by the Australian Aborigines, it is perhaps surprising that only one, the Queensland nut. has entered into commercial cultivation as a food plant. The reason for this probably does not lie with an intrinsic lack of potential in Australian flora, but rather with the lack of exploitation of this potential. In Europe and Asia, for example, the main food plants have had the benefit of many centuries of lection and hybridisation, which has led to the production of forms vastly superior to tho in the wild. Before the Europeans came, the Aborigines practid no agriculture and so there was no opportunity for such improvement; either deliberate or unconscious, in the quality of the edible plants.
Since 1788, there has, of cour, been opportunity for lection of Australian food plants which might have led to the production of varieties that were worth cultivating. But Australian plants have probably 'misd the bus'. Food plants from other regions were already so far in advance after a long tradition of cultivation that it emed hardly worth starting work on Australian species. Undoubtedly, the native raspberry, for example, could, with suitable lection and breeding programs, be made to yield a high-class fruit; but Australians already enjoy good raspberries from other areas of the world and unless some dedicated amateur plant breeder takes up the task, the Au
stralian raspberries are likely to remain unimproved.
And so, today, as the choice of which food plants to cultivate in Australia has been largely decided, and as there is little chance of being lost for long periods in the bush. our interest in the subject of Australian food plants tends to relate to natural history rather than to practical necessity.
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Questions 26-32涂鸦板
Do the following statements reflect the claims of the writer in Reading Passage 3 ? In boxes 26-32 write:
YES if the statement reflects the writer’s claims
NO if the statement contradicts the writer
NOT GIVEN if there is no information about this in the passage
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26. Most of the pre-European Aboriginal knowledge of wild foods has been recovered.
27. There were few food plants unknown to pre-European Aborigines.
28. Europeans learned all of what they knew of edible wild plants from Aborigines.笔记本电脑报价
29. Dodonaea is an example of a plant ud for food by both pre-European Aborigines and European ttlers.
30. Some Australian food plants are botanically related to plants outside Australia.
31. Pre-European Aboriginal tribes clor to the coast had access to a greater variety of food plants than tribes further inland.
32. Some species of coastal food plants were also found inland.
Questions 33-35
Choo the appropriate letters (A-D) and write them in boxes 33-35 on your answer sheet.mba面试
33.
A was regularly eaten by Aborigines before European ttlement.
B was given by Aborigines in exchange for foods such as flour.
C was a staple food on government rerves.
D was produced on farms before European ttlement.
34. Experimentation with wild plants ...
兰蔻护肤品怎么样A depended largely on botanical obrvation.
B was unavoidable for early ttlers in all parts of Australia.
C led Aborigines to adopt Leptospermum as a food plant.
D sometimes had unfortunate results for Aborigines.
35. Wild plant u by Aborigines …
A was limited to dry regions.
B was restricted to ed.
C sometimes required the u of tools.
D was more prevalent in the southern part of Australia.
Questions 36-38
Complete the partial summary below. Choo ONE or TWO words from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 36-38 on your answer sheet.
Despite the large numbers of wild plants that could be ud for food. only one, the ... (36) .... is being grown as a cash crop. Other edible plants in Australia, however, much potential they have for cultivation, had not gone through the lengthy process of ... (37) ... that would allow their exploitation, becau Aborigines were not farmers. Thus species such as the ...
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(38) ..., which would be an agricultural success had it not bad to compete with established E
uropean varieties at the time of European ttlement, are of no commercia
