2023年中考英语阅读理解热点话题练习 专题14 科学家（PDF版，含解析）

2023年中考英语阅读理解热点话题练习
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(2022广东广州.中考真题)Charles Darwin
Early years
Charles Darwin was one of the six children from a big family.His grandfather and father were doctors and the
young Darwin went to Edinburgh University to study medicine.However,he hated to see blood and he soon realized
that he couldn't be a doctor.He then went to Cambridge University and discovered that he had a great interest in
studying plants,insects and animals.Luckily,one of Darwin's university teachers helped him,join the perfect trip
for a biologist:a voyage around the world to study nature.
The Beagle
In 1831,Charles Darwin left Plymouth on The Beagle,a ship that took him around the world for five years.
While he was travelling,he studied the plants and animals in the countries and on the islands that the ship visited.
Darwin also spent his time on The Beagle writing notes about the things he had seen.When he finally arrived back
in Britain,Darwin was already starting to create his famous theory that all living things had a common ancestor
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Down house
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
彩盒山
At home at Down House,a place that you can still visit today,Darwin wrote many articles and books about his
travels,but he didn't want to make anything about his theory known to the public.He worked in his study,where
he wrote 250,000 words about his theory of evolution ()but he was frightened about what people might say
about his idea that monkeys were the ancestors of humans.He thought the public would be against it and was so
frightened that he became ill with worry.However,when another scientist started to write about similar ideas,