The great
46 scientist, Charles Darwin, was born on February 12, 1809. His father was a well-known doctor, and
47 that his son also would become a doctor.
As a boy, Charles liked to go for walks in the fields and
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49 nature and comparing what he saw with everything he had read in natural science books. He was fond
50 collecting animal and plant specimens
51 insects, birds, flowers and leaves.
At sixteen, Charles
52 Edinburgh University
53 . But he was interested in
54 . Then he was sent to Cambridge University,
55 he graduated in1831.
56 he heard that the ship Beagle(贝格尔号) was
57 to South America and wanted a naturalist. His biology professor advised him to go. He said the journey would be just the thing for Charles. So the Beagle left England in December 1831, Charles Darwin was
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The expedition
59 almost five years. The Beagle
60 the waters near the east and west
61 of South America, and many other places. He
62 all kinds of plants and animals, which he sent home from the
63 he visited.
After returning from the expedition, Darwin continued his studies of changes in nature. Darwin understood that plants and animals do no
t
64 the same, that they always change.
By 1859 Darwin had finished his famous book “The Origin of Species”. It made a great noise in the word of science. Darwin was attacked by the
65 and even by some scientists. But later, more and more scientists agreed with him.
Darwin tirelessly continued his scientific studies until he died on April 19,1882.
小题1:
| | A．American | | B．British | | C．German | | D．Italian |
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小题2:
| | A．hoped | | B．wanted | | C．wished | | D．required |
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小题3:
| | A．woods | | B．forests | | C．mountains | | D．countryside |
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小题4:
| | A．noticing | | B．watching | | C．looking over | | D．seeing |
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小题6:
| | A．for example | | B．like as | | C．such as | | D．like |
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小题7:
| | A．had been sent to | | B．was sent to | | C．was sent for | | D．had been sent for |
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小题8:
| | A．to find machine | | B．to study medicine | | C．to make medicine | | D．to study machine |
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小题9:
| | A．nature scene | | B．social history | | C．natural history | | D．biological lives |
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小题10:
| | A．from where | | B．in which | | C．from which | | D．at which |
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小题11:
| | A．Late | | B．Later | | C．After that | | D．From then on |
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小题12:
| | A．going on a trip | | B．traveling about | | C．about to a journey | | D．making a journey |
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小题13:
| | A．at board | | B．in ship | | C．on board | | D．on trip |
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小题14:
| | A．was lasted | | B．had lasted | | C．lasted | | D．had kept |
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小题15:
| A. watched
| B, studied
| C. explored
| D. researched
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小题16:
| | A．parts | | B．land | | C．coasts | | D．beaches |
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小题17:
| | A．got | | B．collected | | C．caught | | D．fed |
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小题18:
| | A．ports | | B．cities | | C．places | | D．towns |
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小题19:
| | A．remain | | B．show | | C．mean | | D．make |
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小题20:
| | A．government | | B．relatives | | C．Church | | D．professors |
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