Question

As a boy, Charles Robert Darwin collected anything that caught his interest: insects, coins and interesting stones. He was not very clever, but Darwin was good at doing the things that interested him.

     His father was a doctor, so Darwin was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and was planned to follow a medical career. But Charles found the lectures boring. Then his father sent him to Cambridge University to study to be a priest. While at Cambridge, Darwin’s interest in zoology and geography grew. Later he got a letter from Robert FitzRoy who was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship, the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended(推薦). That voyage was the start of Darwin’s great life.

     As the Beagle sailed around the world, Darwin began to wonder how life had developed on earth. He began to observe everything. After he was home, he set to work, getting his collection in order. His first great work The Zoology of the Beagle was well received, but he was slow to make public his ideas on the origin of life.

     Later Darwin and Wallace, another naturalist who had the same opinions as Darwin, produced a paper together. Darwin’s great book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (《物種起源》) appeared. It attracted a storm. People thought that Darwin was saying they were descended from monkeys. What a shameful idea! Although most scientists agreed that Darwin was right, the Church was still so strong that Darwin never received any honors for his work.

    Afterwards, he published another great work, The Descent of Man. His health grew worse, but he still worked. “When I have to give up observation, I shall die,” he said. He was still working on 17, April, 1882. He was dead two days later.

1.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Charles Darwin’s ideas

B. Charles Darwin’s works

C. Father of modern biology: Charles Darwin

D. The greatest scientist: Charles Darwin

2.Darwin’s father sent him to Edinburgh to _____.

A. make him like natural history

B. make him become a doctor

C. let him change his hobbies

D. have him give up his collection

3.According to the passage, Charles Darwin’s whole life was changed by _____.

A. his study at Cambridge University

B. his collection of coins

C. the naturalists at Cambridge

D. the voyage of the Beagle

4.We can learn from the passage that _____.

A. Darwin announced his ideas on the origin of life as soon as he finished his voyage

B. Wallace agreed with Darwin’s opinions and wrote The Descent of Man with him

C. Darwin wrote two great books and a paper during his lifetime

D. churchmen were strongly against Darwin’s ideas at that time

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.D

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文敘述了現代生物學之父：查爾斯·達爾文 的一生。父親將他送到愛丁堡學醫，他卻煩透了那些講座。隨后他父親決定送他去劍橋大學學習，將來當一名牧師。可是一封來自羅伯特·菲茨洛伊船長的信改變了他的一生。菲茨洛伊計劃駕駛“貝格爾號”海船做一次環球航行，他想要一位博物學家加盟，有人推薦了達爾文。此次航海成為查爾斯終生偉業的起點。跟隨著貝格爾號做環球航行，達爾文開始思考地球上生命的演變。他的巨著《物種起源》問世掀起了軒然大波。

1.標題歸納題。根據Later Darwin and Wallace, another naturalist who had the same opinions as Darwin, 本片短文主要介紹達爾文這位偉大的生物學家，故選C。

2.細節理解題。根據Darwin was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and was planned to follow a medical career. 父親送他去愛丁堡去學醫，讓他以后從醫，故選B。

3.細節理解題。根據As the Beagle sailed around the world, Darwin began to wonder how life had developed on earth. He began to observe everything. 達爾文一生的改變是由于他的環球之旅開始的，故選D。 

4.細節理解題。根據Although most scientists agreed that Darwin was right, the Church was still so strong that Darwin never received any honors for his work.盡管很多科學家都認為達爾文是對的，曬是教會人員卻不這樣認為，故選D。

考點：人物傳記類短文閱讀。