11．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．
45．Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？C
A．Charles Darwin's ideas
B．Charles Darwin's works
C．Father of modern biology：Charles Darwin
D．The greatest scientist：Charles Darwin
46．Darwin's father sent him to Edinburgh toB．
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
47．According to the passage，Charles Darwin's whole life was changed byD．
A．his study at Cambridge University
B．his collection of coins
C．the naturalists at Cambridge
D．the voyage of the Beagle
48．The underlined part"they were descended from monkeys"probably means"C"．
A．they gave monkeys life
B．they were different from monkeys
C．they were developed from monkeys
D．they had to live with monkeys．
分析 本文敘述了現(xiàn)代生物學(xué)之父：查爾斯達爾文 的一生．父親將他送到愛丁堡學(xué)醫(yī)，他卻煩透了那些講座．隨后他父親決定送他去劍橋大學(xué)學(xué)習(xí)，將來當(dāng)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(huán)球航行，他想要一位博物學(xué)家加盟，有人推薦了達爾文．此次航海成為查爾斯終生偉業(yè)的起點．跟隨著貝格爾號做環(huán)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．
解答 45．C．標(biāo)題歸納題．根據(jù)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(xué)家，故選C．
46．B．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)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(xué)醫(yī)，讓他以后從醫(yī)，故選B．
47．D．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)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(huán)球之旅開始的，故選D．
48．C．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)上下文內(nèi)容達爾文的進化論可知，they were descended from monkeys句意為他們是由猴子演變而來的，故選C．
點評 本文是一篇人物故事類閱讀，題目涉及多道細(xì)節(jié)理解題，主旨大意題．做題時學(xué)生應(yīng)仔細(xì)閱讀原文，把握文章主要內(nèi)容，聯(lián)系文章上下文內(nèi)容并結(jié)合所給選項含義，從中選出正確答案，一定要做到有理有據(jù)，切忌胡亂猜測．
