III. Reading Comprehension: 40 points
【單選題】每題 2 分,共 20 題,答錯 1 題倒扣 0.5 分,倒扣至本大題零分為止,未作答,不給分亦不扣分。 Please read the following chart/excerpts/passages closely and then choose the BEST answer for each of the questions
according to the contents.
In 1839 Charles Darwin published Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited
During the Voyage of HMS Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Captn. FitzRoy, R.N. It was a huge success in
Britain and cemented Darwin’s fame as a naturalist. By then Charles and Emma had been married three years and had two
children, and they decided it was time to leave London. They were tired of the crime, the coal dust that blackened their clothes,
the horse dung that clung to their shoes. They wanted to raise their children in the countryside, where they had grown up. They
picked out an estate called Down House, an 18-acre farm in Kent, 16 miles from London. Darwin became a gentleman farmer,
planting flowers, buying a horse and a cow. He stopped mingling in the scientific societies altogether. He got whatever
information he needed by letter or from carefully selected weekend guests.
【題組】31. By publishing Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology . . . Charles Darwin has made himself a ______.
(A) historian
(B) nature lover
(C) famous person
(D) field biologist
(E) nature writer