tailieunhanh - The sat critical reading section 7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the sat critical reading section 7', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ---------------------------- THE SAT CRITICAL READING SECTION ------------------------------------------- Questions 33-40 are based on the following passage. The following excerpt from Charles Darwin s The Voyage of the Beagle tells of a defining chapter in the life of a budding scientist. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me thirty miles to Shrewsbury which few uncles would have done and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose. I have always Line felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind I was led to attend closely to 5 several branches of natural history and thus my powers of observation were improved though they were always fairly developed. The investigation of the geology of all the places visited was far more important as reasoning here comes into play. On first examining a new district nothing can appear more hopeless than the chaos of rocks but by recording the stratification and nature of the rocks and fossils at many points always reasoning and 10 predicting what will be found elsewhere light soon begins to dawn on the district and the structure of the whole becomes more or less intelligible. I had brought with me the first volume of Lyell s Principles of Geology which I studied attentively and the book was of the highest service to me in many ways. The very first place which I examined namely St. Jago in the Cape de Verde islands showed me clearly the wonderful superiority of Lyell s manner of treating geology compared with that of any other author whose works I 15 had with me or ever afterwards read. Another of my occupations was collecting animals of all classes briefly describing and roughly dissecting many of the marine ones but from not being able to draw and from not having sufficient anatomical knowledge a great pile of manuscripts which I made during the voyage