Unit5 Revealing Nature课时综合复习(1) 2022-2023学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第一册

Unit5课时综合复习1 课文语法填空 The captain of the ship named the Beagle wanted someone to profit by 1._(visit) distant countries.Darwin got the opportunity.Darwin,a geologist and naturalist,2._ _(fascinate) by rocks,plants and animals.The journey gave him the chance 3._ _(study) a variety of living things in their natural environments.His room was crowded 4._ samples of the plants and animals he had collected.He began to consider the question 5._ different species came to exist.Maybe animals evolved as they adapted to their 6._(change) environments? Darwin decided to find out the truth.In 1835,Darwin saw 7._ (variety) new species,but it was the birds 8._ interested him the most.After much research,he came to the 9._(conclude) that new species evolved from earlier ancestors.Darwin explained this theory in his book,On the Origin of Species,which 10._(immediate) caused a storm.It has changed ideas about life on Earth forever.And it all began with the journey on the Beagle. 阅读理解 A Ellen Kalish runs a center for rescued wild animals in New York.When a woman asked if she could treat an owl,she was happy to help.Then,the caller told her exactly where the tiny owl was hiding out.It was the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center in New York City! Kalish said she has been helping wild animals for 20 years,but she has never heard a story like that.The rescued owl has been nicknamed “Rockefeller”. When workers were unwrapping the tree which just arrived,one of them spotted the creature.At first the worker thought the owl might be injured.One of the workers called his wife,telling her he was bringing the owl home.He asked if she could find a place that helps wildlife animals.She called Kalish. How did Rockefeller end up stuck in the tree in the first place? Kalish offered a few ideas.He could have gone to the tree to hide and got trapped later,she said.Maybe once the tree was loaded onto a truck,the branches squished(挤压) him into the trunk.He might have been too scared to move. Kalish met t