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.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.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
5.Which is the right order about Charles Darwin according to the passage?
a. He published another great work, The Descent of Man.
b. His father sent him to Cambridge University to study to be a priest.
c. His first great work The Zoology of the Beagle was well received,
d. He got a letter from Robert FitzRoy who was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship.
A. acbd B. bdca C. bcda D.abdc
Football is, I believe, the most popular game in England: one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this. Rich and poor, young and old, one can see them all there, shouting for their teams. One of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches. He will tell you who he thinks will win such a match, and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times of his age.
Most schools in England take football seriously（认真地）— much more seriously than nearly all European schools, where lessons are all very important and games are left for the children themselves. In England it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boy’s mind with facts in the classroom; education also means the training of character by means of games, especially team games, where the boy or girl has to learn to work with others for his or her team instead of working for himself or herself alone. Therefore the school plans games and matches for its students. Football is a good team game. It is good both for the body and the mind. That is why it is every school’s game in England.
1.Football games are very popular in England among _____________ .
A. all the people B. grown-ups
C. boys only D. boys and girls
2.In England, a boy’s opinion of a match is often______________.
A. three or four times better than that of a man
B. worse than that of a man
C. as good as that of a man
D. worth thinking three or four times
3.In England, education means _________________ .
A. filling a boy’s mind with stories
B. more than the teaching of knowledge
C. the teaching of knowledge only
D. training character by means of football games
4.We can use_______ instead of the underlined word “therefore”
A. however B. as a result
C. why D. at that place
5.From the passage, we learn that ________________ .
A. schools in England make use of football games for the training of character
B. England is better than all the European countries
C. football is more important than lessons
D. only some schools in England have football game
A man lived at the foot of a hill. For a long time, he heard of tales of the other side of the hill—stories of rich land, weather and beautiful scenery.
One day, he was life in his home town and thought it was to improve it, so he packed his bags, left his home and started climbing the hill, to live a better life.
The climb was very .The man had to stop to rest many times. At some , the hill was very steep (陡峭的) indeed, and he almost wanted to . But his dream of a better life him going.
One afternoon, the man came to another steep part of the hill. And at the top stood some thick plants. The same had happened to him many times before. this time it was a little hard to get over it, he surely was able to do it.
, the man was too tired after all those days of and pushing through high plants. He was that he still had no results to show, no fruit to enjoy. He just didn’t want to any more. He said to himself, “Maybe life on the other side of the hill is not like what the told. My old home isn’t that anyway.” He finally made his decision, and set off for home.
Actually the man didn’t know that he climbed over that slope (斜坡), he could see the other side of the hill and all he had heard about that place was . The man had already done the hard part, but he to stop trying when things were going to get much better.
1.A. bad B. hot C. perfect D. cold
2.A. interested in B. bored of C. surprised at D. nervous about
3.A. easy B. necessary C. simple D. right
4.A. wishing B. beginning C. refusing D. helping
5.A. astonishing B. interesting C. tiring D. attractive
6.A. afternoons B. days C. points D. corners
7.A. get up B. give up C. sit down D. run away
8.A. stopped B. asked C. noticed D. kept
9.A. trouble B. steep C. dream D. illness
10.A. If B. Because C. When D. Although
11.A. Luckily B. However C. Or D. So
12.A. running B. playing C. climbing D. waiting
13.A. happy B. angry C. excited D. charged
14.A. try B. help C. escape D. learn
15.A. films B. books C. tales D. lessons
16.A. strange B. terrible C. useless D. dangerous
17.A. looked around B. turned around C. went on D. slowed down
18.A. as if B. so that C. as long as D. as well as
19.A. false B. true C. funny D. important
20.A. prepared B. agreed C. chose D. failed
Now when people refer to England you find Wales______ as well.
A. include B. included
C. including D. includes
The teacher _____ the class______ five groups..
A divided...into B. separated...from
C. separated...into.. D. divided...from
---He has been working hard all the time.
---__________ he got full marks in the last English test.
A. No wonder B. No doubt
C. No need D. After all
