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What changed Charles's life and led him into a world of natural science？A．A letter to Capt

What changed Charles's life and led him into a world of natural science？

A．A letter to Captain Robert FitzRoy.

B．A voyage around the world on a ship called the Beagle.

C．His father decided to send Charles to Cambridge University.

D．A trip to Rio de Janeiro in South America.

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发布时间：2020-11-03

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第1题

Charles Darwin's whole life was changed by one lucky chance. In 1831 ,before he went on th

e voyage of the Beagle, he was a very ordinary young man of twenty-two. No one in England — certainly not Darwin himself—had any idea of the future he had before him.

He was not a very clever boy, but Charles was good at doing the things that interested him. He also took pleasure in carrying out. experiments. But he could not learn Latin and-Greek which in those days were an important part of education. He was a disappointment to his father, who was sure that he would bring nothing but shame to himself and his family.

Then his father decided to send Charles to Cambridge University to study to become a priest. With hard work, he did quite well. And, in the countryside around Cambridge, he was able to shoot, fish and collect insects.

He seemed likely to become a country priest like hundreds of others, sharing his time between his work and his interest in natural history and country life. He had a deep faith in God and a lasting interest in religion. At this time he did not doubt that every word of the Bible was true.

Then a letter from Captain Robert FitzRoy changed his life. FitzRoy was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship called the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended. That voyage was the start of Charles Darwin's great life work.

In those days a great many people believed that every word written in the Bible was true. Darwin hoped that the plants and animals that they found in the course of their voyage would prove the truth of the Bible story of the great Flood.

He began to observe everything. When they got to Rio de Janeiro in South America, Charles was overcome with joy to see so many different creatures, so much life and colour. His notebooks were full of detailed observations.

Then they reached dry land at Punta Alta. There Darwin discovered his first fossils. Why, he wondered, were there horse bones at Punta Alta, when there had been no horses in the New World until Cortez brought his from Spain？

They came to Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America. It was a strange place, with terrible storms. Its people grew no food, and they slept on the wet ground. Darwin observed their looks and habits.

"How can people be so different, if all are descended from Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden？" Charles wondered.

What is the passage about？

A．The earlier years of Charles Darwin.

B．How does Charles Darwin get his fame.

C．Charles Darwin's education.

D．Charles Darwin's childhood.

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第2题

Charles II failed to forbid tea sale in private houses and then changed to require legal t

ea sale license and finally increased the tax on tea to 119%.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

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第3题

听力原文：W: Hey Steve, got any plans for tonight？M: Hi, Jane. No, I don't think so. Why？ G

听力原文：W: Hey Steve, got any plans for tonight？

M: Hi, Jane. No, I don't think so. Why？ Got any suggestions？

W: In fact, I do. I just got two tickets to the opening of the exhibit of the reprints by Julia Margaret Cameron. I would have mentioned it earlier, but I was on the waiting list for these tickets and I wasn't sure I'd even get them.

M: An exhibit, huh？ I like such things. But I don't know who Julia...

W: Margaret Cameron! She was a photographer in the 1800s. She is interesting to art-historians in general and students of photography in particular because she...how should I say, changed the aesthetics for photography.

M: What do you mean？

W: Well, her specialty was portraits and instead of just making a factual record of details like most photographers did, you know, just capturing what a person looks like in a dispassionate sort of way. She, like a portrait painter, was interested in capturing her subject's personality.

M: Interesting! How did she do that？

W: She invented a number of techniques that affect the picture. Like one of those things she did was blurring images slightly by using a soft focus on the subject. That's pretty common now.

M: Yeah. Who did she photograph？

W: Famous people of her day, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Darwin... I don't know who else. We'll see at the exhibition.

M: You really pique my curiosity. I am going to enjoy this.

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A．A famous photographer.

B．Photographic processes in the 1800s.

C．Photographic equipment used in the 1800s.

D．A new museum.

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第4题

The North American frontier changed some of the characteristics of the pioneers of the 175

0's and intensified others. They were, as a group, semiliterate, proud, and stubborn, as dogged in their insistence on their own way of life as pine roots cracking granite(花岗岩) to grow. Perhaps their greatest resource was their capacity to endure. They outlasted recurrent(周期性发生的)plagues of smallpox(天花) and malaria(痢疾) and a steady progression of natural accidents. They were incredibly prolific. Squire Boone's family of eight children was small by frontier standards. James Roberston, an eventful neighbor of Boone's and the frontier of Nashville, had eleven children. Twice-married, John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee, fathered eighteen; his long time enemy, John Tipton, also twice married, produced seventeen.

The entire assets of one of these huge families often amounted, in the beginning, to little more than an axe, a hunting knife, an auger, a rifle, a horse or two, some cattle and a few pigs, a sack of seed com and another of salt, perhaps a crosscut saw, and a loom. Those who moved first into a new region lived for months at a time on wild meat, Indian maize, and native fruits in season. Yet if they were poor at the beginning, they confidently expected that soon they would be rich.

In a way almost impossible to define to urban dwellers, a slice of ground suitable for farming represented not just dollars and cents, but dignity. The obsession brought shiploads of yearners (渴求者) every week to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charles Town and Savannah. It sent them streaming westward into the wilderness after their predecessors to raise still more children who wanted still more land.

What kind of stylistic device did the author use in the phrase "as pine roots cracking granite to grow"？

A．Metaphor.

B．Simile.

C．Personification.

D．Imagination.

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第5题

What can we learn from the conversation？A. Charles bought a photocopier because all sorts

What can we learn from the conversation？

A. Charles bought a photocopier because all sorts of people need it.

B. Charles bought a photocopier by accident.

C. There was no place nearby to provide the photocopy service.