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　　I. Scanning:

　　1. How many people are mentioned in the text? Who are they?

　　Charles Darwin、Gregor Mendel、Gote Turesson

　　2. Match their achievements:

　　Charles Darwin gave birth to the science of genetics.

　　Gregor Mendel found evidence for the existence of stable varieties within species in nature

　　Gote Turesson wrote a famous book named “On the Origin of Species”

　　II. Skimming:

　　1. Fill in the following blanks according to the passage:

　　Scientist Research/eXPeriment Result

　　Charles Darwin 1 2

　　Gregor Mendel 3 4

　　Gote Turesson 5 6

　　Key:

　　1. The wildlife of Galapagos, many varieties of garden roses

　　2. There were differences between the species of the different islands’yet all showed a clear relationship with those of America’ differences in habitat could lead to different species in birds as well as in plants.

　　3. Flowers and peas

　　4. Many characteristics were passed on from one generation to the next, without influence by the environment. His research gave birth to the science of genetics

　　5. A wild plant found on the Swedish west coast

　　6. Found evidence for the existence of stable varieties within species in nature. He showed that differences between plants of one species occurred as a result of the environmental conditions in their habitat.

　　2. The text can be divided into four parts,then find the topics of the four parts:

　　Part I (Para______) :

　　Part II (Para______) :

　　Part III (Para____) :

　　Part IV (Para____)

　　Key:

　　Para 1-3: Darwin and his research.

　　Para 4-5 Mendel and his eXPeriment.

　　Para 6 Turesson and his study

　　Para7 the importance and significance of the research of the three.

　　III. Post-reading: (Multiple choice)

　　1. The research by Darwin,Mendel and Turesson shows that_

　　A.genetics is more important than the environment to plants

　　B.genetics is less important than the environment to plants

　　C.both genetics and the environment are important to plants

　　D.neither genetics nor the environment is important to plants

　　2. Darwin observed that the birds with __ would eat_

　　A.small beaks l hard seeds B.broad beaks;hard seeds

　　C.hard beaks;hard seeds D.broad beaks;soft seeds

　　3.Darwin joined the scientific eXPedition on _____ .

　　A.the Endeavour B.Tahiti C.the Beagle D.space

　　4. Scientists of the nineteenth century believed that

　　A.the development of new species was behind the influence of the environment

　　B.the development of new species and the influence of the environment were hand in hand

　　C.the development of new species had nothing to do with the influence of the environment

　　D the influence of the environment was behind the development of new species .

　　5. Darwin studied