Question

阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的词,或填入括号中所给词的正确形式（每空不多于3词）。

Charles Darwin was a scientist and he changed our understanding of the 1.(nature) world. 

Darwin was born in 1809 in England. At school he didn't do well and got poor2.(mark) . He was a good athlete and loved studying nature as well. He also kept3.(do) chemistry experiments. 

His father was a doctor and expected Charles 4.(become) one too. Charles started studying medicine5. Edinburgh University, but soon he gave up his studies there. He went on to study religion at Cambridge University instead. 

In 1831, Darwin went on a five-year journey to South America, Australia and South Africa by ship. He was seasick, but the things he saw on this trip changed his life. He collected many animal and plant specimens(标本). He spent the rest of his life6. (study)what he had seen and he wrote many books. 

In 1939, Darwin married his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, with7.he had ten children! He was a loving father and enjoyed family life, which was always 8.(important)to him than his research. In spite of having many health problems throughout his life, Darwin lived 9. he was 73. 

Darwin's most famous book On the Origin of Species came out in 1859 and10.(sell) out in a day. It said that all living things were related. His ideas were not popular at first, but now most people agree with them and admire Darwin as a great scientist.

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