新课标高中英语活页文选

出版时间：2009-5  出版社：上海外语教育出版社  作者：潘志强 主编  页数：85  字数：86000  

内容概要

《新课标高中英语活页文选（高2第2学期）》讲述了：新课标高中英语活页文选全套共6册，采用活页形式，便于学生携带，并提供全文MP3录音的免费下载，读听结合，能有效强化语篇的理解与记忆。本套书适合高一至高三年级学生使用，也可供高中英语阅读总复习使用。　　选文题材丰富、时代感强，选篇标准和出题思路与最新高考阅读理解命题趋势相符。　　练习形式新颖，能帮助学生扩大词汇量、提高英语阅读技能和技巧。　　真正活页形式，便于学生随身携带，利用零星时间，见缝插针进行阅读。　　篇幅长短适中，便于教师利用10分钟左右的课堂时间，指导学生完成一篇短文的阅读。　　全套共6册，适合高一至高三学生使用，也可供高中英语阅读总复习使用。　　提供全文MP3录音的免费下载，读听结合，强化语篇的理解与记忆。

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　　A letter from Captain Robert FitzRoy changed his life. FitzRoy was plan-ning to make a voyage around the world on a ship called the Beagle. He wanteda naturalist to join the ship， and Darwin was recommended. That voyage was thestart of Charles Darwin‘s great life work. In those days a great many people be-lieved that every word written in the Bible was true.Darwin hoped that theplants and animals that they found in the course of their voyage would prove thetruth of the Bible story of the great Flood.　　From 1831 to 1836 Darwin served as naturalist aboard the H. M. S. Beagleon a British science expedition around the world.In South America Darwinfound fossils of extinct animals that were similar to modern species. On the Ga-lapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean he noticed many variations among plantsand animals of the same general type as those in South America. The expeditionvisited places around the world， and Darwin studied plants and animals every-where he went， collecting specimens for further study.　　As the Beagle sailed around the world， Darwin began to wonder how lifehad developed on the earth. He saw volcanic islands in the sea， and wonderedhow living things had got there. But people who believed every word of the Biblethought that God had made all creatures and Man. But， if that was true， whydid some of the fossils look like “mistakes” which had failed to change and， forthat reason， died out？　　After five years he was home. He was never again the healthy young manwho climbed mountains and carried heavy bags of fossils for miles. He set towork， getting his collection in order. Out of this study grew several related theo-ries ： One， evolution did occur； two， evolutionary change was gradual， requi-ting thousands to millions of years ； three， the primary mechanism for evolutionwas a process called natural selection ； and four， the millions of species alive to-day arose from a single original life form through a branching process called“speciation”.