As a boy, Charles Robert Darwin(达尔文) 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(推荐). 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”(《物种起源》) 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.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
2.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
3.The underlined part “they were descended from monkeys” probably means “_____”.
A. they gave monkeys life
B. they were different from monkeys
C. they were developed from monkeys
D. they had to live with monkeys
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题
As a boy, Charles Robert Darwin(达尔文) 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(推荐). 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”(《物种起源》) 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.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
2.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
3.The underlined part “they were descended from monkeys” probably means “_____”.
A. they gave monkeys life
B. they were different from monkeys
C. they were developed from monkeys
D. they had to live with monkeys
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用英语写一篇介绍查尔斯·达尔文(Charles Darwin)的100词左右的短文。
人物:查尔斯·达尔文
生平:1809年2月( February)2日出生(be born)在离塞文河(the River Severn)不远的一个家庭里,十六岁时,达尔文进入爱丁堡大学(Edinburgh University)学医(study medicine)。后来,他又被送到剑桥大学(Cambridge University)学习,并于1831年毕业(graduated in 1831.)。达尔文持续不断地从事他的科学研究( continue his scientific studies) ,直到1882年去世。他被安葬 (be buried) 在伦敦威斯敏斯特教堂(Westminster Abbey)。
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As poets go, Robert Frost was no longer young when he published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will, in 1913. Though born in San Francisco, he came of a New England family which returned there when he was ten. Like many other writers, he had a brief brush with college and then supported himself by trying different jobs. However, he had been brought up on a farm and he liked farming. Most of all, he liked to write but he could not support himself by writing. In his late 30s he moved to England, where he produced his first book.
At the outbreak of World War I, Frost went back to farming in New Hampshire. Thereafter, although he made many journeys elsewhere, he considered the farm to be his home and its activities became the focus of his poetry.
Frost's verses(诗, 诗体) are a part of a great tradition, shaped by the Roman poet Vergil, whose poetry was mainly about farming. However, though he used farm situations in much of his poetry, he gave them a wide application. He might write about stepping on a rake(耙子) and describe the feeling when it hit him, but he used the incident to show how life gave us lessons.
Some talents in poetry are used up early, but not Frost's. He continued to publish fine poetry for fifty years. He reached the height of his popularity after World War II. If America had a national poet in the 20th century, it was Frost. He was chosen to read one of his poems at the inauguration(就职典礼)of the late President John F. Kennedy, the first poet ever so honored.
The 1.__________ of Robert Frost
Personal Information | Nationality | American | Topic of poetry | 2.__________ |
Career | 3._____ | Favorite | Writing | |
4.____________ | Born into a 5.__________ Having a brief brush with college Trying different jobs6._________Publishing his first book of poem in7.___________ Reaching the height of his popularity after 8._____________ | |||
Achievements or honors | Publishing fine poetry continually for fifty years Being regarded as9.____________ Being 10.___________to be chosen to read one of his poems at the inauguration of an American President |
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Since English biologist Charles Darwin (1809 –1882) published On the Origin of Species in 1859, scientists have vastly improved their knowledge of natural history. However, a lot of information is still the subject of speculation, and scientists can still only make educated guesses at certain things.
One subject that they guess about is why some 400 million years ago, animals in the sea developed limbs (肢) that allowed them to move onto and live on land.
Recently, an idea that occurred to the US paleontologist (古生物学家) Alfred Romer a century ago became a hot topic once again.
Sea animals would have been forced into these pools by strong tides. Then, they would have been made either to adapt to their new environment close to land or die. The fittest among them grew to accomplish the transition (过渡) from sea to land. Romer thought that tidal pools might have led to fish gaining limbs.
Romer called these earliest four-footed animals “tetrapods” (四足动物). Science has always thought that this was a credible theory, but only recently has there been strong enough evidence to support it.
Hannah Byrne is an oceanographer (海洋学家) at Uppsala University in Sweden. She announced at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Oregon, US, on Feb 15 that by using computer software, her team had managed to link Romer’s theory to places where fossil deposits (化石沉积) of the earliest tetrapods were found.
According to the magazine Science, in 2014, Steven Balbus, a scientist at the University of Oxford in the UK, calculated that 400 million years ago, when the move from land to sea was achieved, tides were stronger than they are today. This is because the planet was 10 percent closer to the moon than it is now.
The creatures stranded in the pools would have been under the pressure of “survival of the fittest”, explained the UK’s University of Bangor ocean scientist Mattias Green. As he told Science: “After a few days in these pools, you become food or you run out of food … the fish that had large limbs had an advantage because they could flip (空翻) themselves back in the water”.
As is often the case, however, there are others who find the theory less convincing. Cambridge University paleontologist Jennifer Clark, speaking to Nature magazine, seemed unconvinced. “It’s only one of many ideas for the origin of land-dwelling (陆地栖息的) tetrapods, any or all of which may have been a part of the answer,” she said.
1.Who first proposed the theory that fish might have gained limbs because of tidal pools?
A. Charles Darwin. B. Alfred Romer.
C. Hannah Byrne. D. Steven Balbus.
2.Why were tides stronger 400 million years ago than they are today according to Steven Balbus?
A. Earth moved faster than it does today.
B. Earth was closer to the sun than it is today.
C. Earth was closer to the moon than it is today.
D. Earth had larger oceans than it does today.
3.What does the underlined word “stranded” in Paragraph 8 mean?
A. Trapped. B. Settled.
C. Survived. D. Adapted.
4.What is the focus of the article?
A. The proposal of a new scientific theory.
B. The arguments over a scientific theory.
C. Some new evidence to support a previous theory.
D. A new discovery that questions a previous theory.
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
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 48 , 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 58 .
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 not 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.
1. | A. American | B. British | C. German | D. Italian |
2. | A. hoped | B. wanted | C. wished | D. required |
3. | A. woods | B. forests | C. mountains | D. countryside |
4. | A. noticing | B. watching | C. looking over | D. seeing |
5. | A. at | B. of | C. with | D. in |
6. | A. for example | B. like as | C. such as | D. like |
7. | A. had been sent to | B. was sent to | C. was sent for | D. had been sent for |
8. | A. to find machine | B. to study medicine | C. to make medicine | D. to study machine |
9. | A. nature scene | B. social history | C. natural history | D. biological lives |
10. | A. from where | B. in which | C. from which | D. at which |
11. | A. Late | B. Later | C. After that | D. From then on |
12. | A. going on a trip | B. traveling about | C. about to a journey | D. making a journey |
13. | A. at board | B. in ship | C. on board | D. on trip |
14. | A. was lasted | B. had lasted | C. lasted | D. had kept |
15. | A. watched | B, studied | C. explored | D. researched |
16. | A. parts | B. land | C. coasts | D. beaches |
17. | A. got | B. collected | C. caught | D. fed |
18. | A. ports | B. cities | C. places | D. towns |
19. | A. remain | B. show | C. mean | D. make |
20. | A. government | B. relatives | C. Church | D. professors |
高一英语完型填空困难题查看答案及解析
The Museum: The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world’s most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator(时事评论员).The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world. On four floors, visitors can see paintings, rare editions, manuscripts(手稿), original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.
Opening Hours
The Museum is open from Mondays to Saturdays 10:00—17:00; Sundays 11:00—17:00.
Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.
Special opening times can be arranged for groups, who may wish to book a private view.
Admission Charges: Adults: £5.00; Students: £4.00; Seniors: £4.00; Children: £3.00; Families: £14.00
(2 adults & up to five children)
Group Rates: For a group of 10 or more, a special group rate of £4.00 each applies. Children will still be admitted for £3.00 each.
Access: We are constantly working to improve access to the Museum and its collection. Our current projects involve the fitting of a wheelchair ramp(波道)for better access, a customer care kit and an audio tour for visitors with impaired (受损的)vision. Our Handling Sessions are also suitable for the visually(视觉上地)impaired. The Museum has developed an online virtual(虚拟的)tour through the Museum. Click here to visit all the rooms in the Museum online.
Hire the Museum: The Museum can be hired for private functions, performances soirees (社交晚会) and many other social occasions.
Find Us: The Museum may be reached by using the following buses: 7,17, 19, 38, 45, 46, 55, 243. And by these underground services: Piccadilly Line; Central Line. For a map, please click here. The British Museum and the Foundling Museum are within walking distance.
1.The passage is probably from a(n)________.
A.book | B.website | C.newspaper | D.announcement |
2.If a family with two adults and five children go to the Museum together, they will save ______ compared to going there separately.
A.£25.00 | B.£ 14.00 | C.£ 9.00 | D.£11.00 |
3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.In any case people cannot visit the Museum after 17:00. |
B.Visitors with poor vision cannot enjoy the Museum. |
C.The Museum is not very far from the British Museum. |
D.Anyone cannot hire the Museum for other uses. |
4.The passage is written to _______.
A.persuade readers to visit the Charles Dickens Museum. |
B.inform readers about the history of the Charles Dickens Museum. |
C.offer readers some information about the Charles Dickens Museum. |
D.tell readers how to make use of the Charles Dickens Museum. |
高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The Museum: The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world’s most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator(时事评论员). The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world. On four floors, visitors can see paintings, rare editions, manuscripts(手稿),original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.
Opening Hours
The Museum is open from Mondays to Saturdays 10:00—17:00; Sundays 11:00—17:00.
Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.
Special opening times can be arranged for groups , who may wish to book a private view.
Admission Charges: Adults: £5.00; Students: £4.00; Seniors: £4.00; Children: £3.00; Families: £14.00 ( 2 adults & up to five children)
Group Rates: For a group of 10 or more, a special group rate of £4.00 each applies. Children will still be admitted for £3.00 each.
Access: We are constantly working to improve access to the Muse um and its collection. Our current projects involve the fitting of a wheelchair ramp(波道)for better access, a customer care kit and an audio tour for visitors with impaired(受损的)vision. Our Handling Sessions are also suitable for the visually(视觉上地)impaired. The Museum has developed an online virtual(虚拟的)tour through the Museum. Click here to visit all the rooms in the Museum online.
Hire the Museum: The Museum can be hired for private functions, performances soirees(社交晚会)and many other social occasions.
Find Us: The Museum may be reached by using the following buses:7,17, 19, 38, 45, 46, 55, 243. And by these underground services: Piccadilly Line; Central Line. For a map, please click here. T he British Museum and the Foundling Museum are within walking distance.
1.The passage is probably from a(n)________.
A. book B. website
C. newspaper D. announcement
2.If a family with two adults and five children go to the Museum together, they will save________________________________compared to going there separately.
A. £25.00 B. £ 14.00
C. £ 9.00 D. £11.00
3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. In any case people cannot visit the Museum after 17:00.
B. Visitors with poor vision cannot enjoy the Museum.
C. The Museum is not very far from the British Museum.
D. Anyone cannot hire the Museum for other uses.
4.The passage is written to _______.
A. persuade readers to visit the Charles Dickens Museum.
B. inform readers about the history of the Charles Dickens Museum.
C. offer readers some information about the Charles Dickens Museum.
D. tell readers how to make use of the Charles Dickens Museum.
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The Museum: The Charles Dickens Museum in London is the world’s most important collection of material relating to the great Victorian novelist and social commentator(时事评论员). The only surviving London home of Dickens (from 1837 until 1839) was opened as a museum in 1925 and is still welcoming visitors from all over the world. On four floors, visitors can see paintings, rare editions, manuscripts(手稿),original furniture and many items relating to the life of one of the most popular and beloved personalities of the Victorian age.
Opening Hours
The Museum is open from Mondays to Saturdays 10:00—17:00; Sundays 11:00—17:00.
Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time.
Special opening times can be arranged for groups, who may wish to book a private view.
Admission Charges: Adults: £5.00; Students: £4.00; Seniors: £4.00; Children: £3.00; Families: £14.00 (2 adults & up to five children)
Group Rates: For a group of 10 or more, a special group rate of £4.00 each applies. Children will still be admitted for £3.00 each.
Access: We are constantly working to improve access to the Museum and its collection. Our current projects involve the fitting of a wheelchair ramp(波道) for better access, a customer care kit and an audio tour for visitors with impaired(受损的) vision. Our Handling Sessions are also suitable for the visually(视觉上地) impaired. The Museum has developed an online virtual(虚拟的)tour through the Museum. Click here to visit all the rooms in the Museum online.
Hire the Museum: The Museum can be hired for private functions, performances soirees(社交晚会) and many other social occasions.
Find Us: The Museum may be reached by using the following buses:7,17, 19, 38, 45, 46, 55, 243. And by these underground services: Piccadilly Line; Central Line. For a map, please click here. The British Museum and the Foundling Museum are within walking distance.
1.The passage is probably from a(n) ________.
A. book B. announcement
C. newspaper D. website
2.If a family with two adults and five children go to the Museum together, they will save _________ compared to going there separately.
A. £25.00 B. £ 14.00 C. £ 9.00 D. £11.00
3.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The Museum is not very far from the British Museum.
B. Visitors with poor vision cannot enjoy the Museum.
C. In any case people cannot visit the Museum after 17:00.
D. Anyone cannot hire the Museum for other uses.
4.The passage is written to _______.
A. offer readers some information about the Charles Dickens Museum
B. inform readers about the history of the Charles Dickens Museum
C. persuade readers to visit the Charles Dickens Museum
D. tell readers how to make use of the Charles Dickens Museum
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_____ seemed as if nobody knew anything about the matter.
A.This | B.That | C.It | D.One |
高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
He was allowed to go swimming _______ he kept near the other boys.
A.on condition that B.as far as C.even if D.as though
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