2024届高考英语阅读理解五步法专项带练(36)讲义

（素材来源：重庆市南开中学2023-2024学年高三1月第五次质量检测英语试题） ①Conventionally butterflies were regarded not as fascinating subjects for close observation but as symbols of shallowness. But Eleanor Granville treated them with scientific seriousness. ②In her thirties, though suffering from a marriage where the husband was violent and even turned her family against her, Granville sought comfort by studying moths and butterflies. She travelled around the countryside with local girls, beating bushes to catch falling larvae （幼虫）, and recruited her servants as assistants to collect specimens（样本）. Because of unusual generosity in paying for a fine specimen, she soon accumulated a substantial collection of butterflies. After bringing larvae home, she meticulously logged their growth, providing some of the earliest detailed accounts of insect life cycles. ③However, wandering the countryside with a collecting net was considered weird behavior for anyone back then, let alone a woman, and she was accused of going out dressed like a "gypsy". ④Besides her own extensive research, Granville exchanged letters and butterflies with other collectors. Another enthusiast William Vernon reported that she had owned "the noblest collections of butterflies, all English, which has shamed us". She sent 100 examples to the Royal Society and also sent James Petiver, England's most celebrated butterfly expert, boxes of carefully pinned butterflies, including several that had been previously unknown, and notably the one later named the Granville fritillary whose wings carry striking brown and yellow patterns, a species of special concern due to the decline of the total number under the influence of food loss and hotter weather. ⑤Eleanor Granville remains the only British naturalist to have left their name to a native butterfly species. A pioneer in the study of entomology （昆虫学）, Cranville helped make it an academic subject. Regretfully, only two moths and a butterfly of Granville's precious specimens are still preser