1 . Women have been making scientific discoveries since ancient times. Twelve women have won the Nobel Prize for Science, one of the highest honors in the world. Some women scientists never married, some worked with their husbands, and others raised large families. It has been difficult for women to be successful scientists.

In the early 1800s in England, Mary Anning became one of the first women recognized for her discoveries about the ancient history of the earth. Mary and her father collected fossils(化石) in their village on the south coast of Great Britain. Fossils are parts of plants or animals that have been saved in rocks for millions of years.

When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons(骨架) of several animals that no longer existed on the earth.She didn’t become famous for her discoveries at that time because she often sold her fossils to get money to support her family.

In 1891, a young Polish woman named Marie Sklodowska traveled to Paris to study physics. She did so because she could not get a college education in Poland.She began working in the laboratory of a man named Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre Curie got married and made many discoveries together. They received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 along with another scientist.Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Noble Prize in 1911, this time for Chemistry. Marie Curie was one of the few women at the time who became famous as a scientist.

1. The author believes that women scientists________.

A．have more opportunities to become successful

B．can not get the highest honors in the world

C．go through difficulties to be successful

D．had better pay more attention to their families

2. Mary Anning was one of the first women to ________.

A．win the Noble Prize for Science after getting married

B．make achievements in the study of ancient earth

C．research animals and their bones

D．study the mystery of all kinds of plants

3. What can we learn about Marie Sklodowska?

A．She studied physics in Poland and got a college education.

B．She received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 on her own.

C．She only got one Nobel Prize during her lifetime.

D．She made many discoveries after she got married.

4. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Ancient discoveries.	B．Women scientists.
C．Successful marriages.	D．Different prizes.

2 . NASA physicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away on February 24, 2020. The 101-year-old African American woman was a _________ figure, who played a significant part in the early successes of the U.S. _________ program.

Her story was _________ known to the public until 2016, when a movie called Hidden Figures was released. It _________ the lives of Johnson and two other great African American women.

With _________ but a pencil and a slide rule, Johnson calculated the exact flight paths for the Apollo 11 _________ on the Moon in 1969.

“We're saddened by the _________ of mathematician Katherine Johnson. Today, we _________ her 101 years of life and honored her legacy of excellence that broke down racial and social barriers,” NASA _________ on social media.

Johnson __________ high school at the age of 10 and graduated at 14. The following year she entered West Virginia State College. By her junior year, she had taken every math course the school had to __________. She finished college in 1937 with a double __________ in French and mathematics. In 1939, Johnson and two other __________ students became the first three African American students selected for a graduate program at West Virginia University, an __________ school in Morgantown. Then she had her __________ at NASA, from 1953 to 1986.

1.

A．popular

B．legendary

C．mysterious

D．arguable

2.

A．pilot

B．land

C．space

D．ocean

3.

A．usually

B．currently

C．regularly

D．hardly

4.

A．makes

B．saves

C．follows

D．ignores

5.

A．nothing

B．anything

C．something

D．everything

6.

A．entering

B．approaching

C．discovering

D．landing

7.

A．advance

B．impression

C．fortune

D．passing

8.

A．celebrate

B．trace

C．appreciate

D．record

9.

A．searched

B．chatted

C．unfolded

D．posted

10.

A．finished

B．missed

C．attended

D．taught

11.

A．postpone

B．offer

C．acquire

D．measure

12.

A．role

B．degree

C．course

D．certification

13.

A．selfless

B．intelligent

C．enthusiastic

D．courageous

14.

A．all-male

B．all-female

C．all-white

D．all-black

15.

A．career

B．title

C．aim

D．duty

5 . The bond between mother and daughter is irreplaceable. One of the most famous women scientists of the 20th century, Marie Curie, worked _______ her daughter Irene in the field of radioactivity, each of them _______ earning their own Nobel Prize. Today, there are more _______ mother-and-daughter pairs showing what happens when _______ works together.

In April 2020, Dr. Cynthia Kudji and her daughter Dr. Jasmine Kudji have become the first mother and daughter to _______ from the medical school at the same time and be placed in the same hospital. Cynthia Kudji put her dream of becoming a _______on hold when she became pregnant (怀孕的) at 23. She worked as a nurse for almost a decade _______ making the decision to attend the medical school at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences. _______, her daughter Jasmine attended Louisiana State University School of medicine.

At first, it was _______ for them to live and study so far apart from one another. “I thought initially it was hard because my mom and I had always been really ________ so I had to get used to the ________,” Dr. Jasmine Kudji explains to Afro Tech. Although the experience was difficult, it also had ________ results. “Sometimes people struggle to find someone who ________ their struggles, so for that person to be my mom was extremely helpful,” she adds.

After years apart, both Cynthia and her daughter earned their M. D. degree. Then on “Match Day” when recent med school graduates ________ the results of their residency (高级专科住院生实习期) applications, Cynthia and Jasmine learned that they were ________ in the same hospital.

This pair of mother and daughter proves that family can do anything together.

1.

A．under

B．alongside

C．for

D．around

2.

A．constantly

B．eventually

C．initially

D．occasionally

3.

A．inspiring

B．moving

C．shocking

D．satisfying

4.

A．team

B．community

C．family

D．class

5.

A．escape

B．skip

C．quit

D．graduate

6.

A．nurse

B．doctor

C．student

D．scientist

7.

A．after

B．upon

C．before

D．with

8.

A．Therefore

B．Besides

C．Afterwards

D．Meanwhile

9.

A．natural

B．difficult

C．boring

D．important

10.

A．close

B．nervous

C．successful

D．confident

11.

A．role

B．distance

C．journey

D．relationship

12.

A．mixed

B．apparent

C．lasting

D．beneficial

13.

A．relates to

B．appeals to

C．adapts to

D．refers to

14.

A．announced

B．confirmed

C．discovered

D．promoted

15.

A．rejected

B．ranked

C．praised

D．placed

6 . Before Douglas Engelbart, computers were as big as rooms and used mostly for handling numbers. But in the late 1960s, Engelbart invented almost everything your personal computer has today: a mouse, hypertext, screen sharing and more. Engelbart was adding real-time edits, graphics, hyper-linking and sharing screens — all before the birth of the World Wide Web. “The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing,” said Engelbart, and as it turns out, he held all the right cards.

If he’d been British, Engelbart would have been knighted (授爵), but the Portland, Oregon, native instead lived out the rest of his years as an unsung hero, trying to fry even bigger fish in Silicon Valley. His blueprint of the Internet was totally different from today’s profit-driven, streamlined version. Engelbart imagined an information system built on the backbones of cooperation and education, all meant to enhance the collective human mind. He wanted a computerized network of real-time, human-wide cooperation, with the open-source spirit of Wikipedia and the purposefulness of Change.org.

By the late 70s and early 80s, Engelbart and his ideas were cast aside in favour of Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, along with their profit-generating vision for personal computing, and a user-friendly approach to the Internet. Engelbart’s team of researchers abandoned him, and he had a lesser position at a company called Tymshare while still battling with his pie-in-the-sky visions of a better world. Even worse, when Engelbart’s mouse invention gained widespread use years later, he never gained the profits — it had been licensed to Apple for around $40,000, Engelbart revealed.

And if Engelbart had won? “Hard to say,” says Jefferson of the Internet Archive in San Francisco. “The Web was bound to grow in ways its founders never intended,” he says. He notes his belief that the same spirit of knowledge-sharing and cooperation Engelbart tirelessly pushed for will one day become part of our fast-evolving Internet, even if a commercial layer clouds the original vision. But even so, fame is difficult to achieve; it often ridicules great thinkers like Galileo or Tesla, only to meet them decades after death. Granted, Engelbart was eventually allowed into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1998, and into the Pioneers Circle in the Internet Hall of Fame after his death, but the heart of his dream has yet to be realized.

1. The expression “his pie-in-the-sky visions of a better world” in Para 3 refers to ________.

A．the function of computer data processing

B．a real-time video chat on the Internet

C．a user-friendly approach to the Internet

D．an Internet of knowledge-sharing and cooperation

2. Most probably Engelbart’s greatest regret was that ________.

A．he was too crazy about his vision of the Internet when totally ignored

B．he was not profitably rewarded for his landmark inventions of computer

C．he was admitted to the U. S. National Inventors Hall of Fame too late

D．the Internet was commercially oriented against his original intention

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Engelbart rose and fell in his all-out battle over the future of the Internet.

B．Engelbart could have succeeded in the Internet with his landmark inventions.

C．Engelbart’s achievements have never been recognized.

D．Engelbart didn’t get any profit for his mouse invention.

4. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Who Benefits from the Internet?

B．Who Lost the Internet Wars?

C．Who pioneered the World Wide Web?

D．Who Commercialized the Internet?

7 . In the mid-1990s, Tom Bissell taught English as a volunteer in Uzbekistan. He left after seven months, physically broken and having lost his mind. A few years later, still attracted to the country, he returned to Uzbekistan to write an article about the disappearance of the Aral Sea.

His visit, however, ended up involving a lot more than that. Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, talks about a road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea. It is the story of an American travelling to a strange land, and of the people he meets on his way: Rustam, his translator, a lovely 24-year-old who picked up his colorful English in California, Oleg and Natasha, his hosts in Tashkent, and a string of foreign aid workers.

This is a quick look at life in Uzbekistan, made of friendliness and warmth, but also its darker side of society. In Samarkand, Mr Bissell admires the architectural wonders, while on his way to Bukhara he gets a taste of police methods when suspected of drug dealing. In Ferghana, he attends a mountain funeral（葬礼）followed by a strange drinking party. And in Karakalpakstan, he is saddened by the dust storms, diseases and fishing boats stuck miles from the sea.

Mr Bissell skillfully organizes historical insights and cultural references, making his tale a well-rounded picture of Uzbekistan, seen from Western eyes. His judgment and references are decidedly American, as well as his delicate stomach. As the author explains, this is neither a travel nor a history book, or even a piece of reportage. Whatever it is, the result is a fine and vivid description of the purest of Central Asian traditions.

1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?

A．Bissell was an English teacher.

B．Bissell left Uzbekistan heartbroken.

C．Bissell returned to Uzbekistan to find a new job.

D．Bissell came back due to the attraction of Uzbekistan.

2. Which word can replace the word "hence" in Paragraph 2?

A．Besides.	B．Instead.
C．Therefore.	D．Otherwise.

3. Which of the following word can be the best description of Bissell?

A．Humorous.	B．Adventurous.
C．Ambitious.	D．Brave.

4. Where is this text most likely from?

A．A diary.	B．A guide book.
C．A novel.	D．A magazine.

9 . 你校英语报的The Admirable栏目正面向全校学生征稿。请你根据所给提示，用英语写一篇矩文，介绍你崇拜的人物钟南山，并投稿。
1.1936年出生于南京市一个医学世家;
2.2002年非典疫情发生后提出了有效的治疗方法;
3.2020年以来，为抗击新冠肺炎作出巨大的贡献；
4.2020年8月被授予共和国勋章。
注意:1.词数120左右;
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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10 . Snacks, game machines and medical services have poured into the family of Quan Hongchan, the 14-year-old gold medalist at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, after the story of the talented diver striving to win the Games to support her low-income family and earn money for the treatment of her ill mother deeply touched us.

As the youngest athlete among China’s delegation (代表团), Quan amazed audiences around the world with her surprisingly perfect performance in the women’s 10-meter platform.

Quan immediately became one of the most-discussed Olympic athletes on Chinese social media and a “sweetheart” of many people not only for the snack-loving girl's likeable persona (形象), but also for her maturity and good heart after it came to light she was supporting a low-income family of seven. Quan said she wanted to “make a lot of money” to cure her mom's disease and visit an amusement park, which she has never been to. Eventually, Quan’s efforts have paid off and her dream is coming true.

A hospital in her hometown Zhanjiang, South China's Guangdong Province announced that it would provide a full range of medical services for her mother. The hospital officials said they were proud of the Olympic champion and were more than willing to help out her family. Several amusement parks, zoos said they would offer lifetime free pass for Quan and her family. A local businessman even offered 200,000 yuan in cash to Quan’s father, but was declined.

The passion for the young champion’s family, however, has appeared to become overly heated after some fans and Internet celebrities tracked down to her village home, causing local traffic chaos. Reports claimed some live-streamers even intend to climb up the trees planted at her house and take a jackfruit as souvenir.

1. What’s the purpose of Paragraph 2?

A．To present a detail.	B．To introduce the game.
C．To describe the audiences.	D．To add the background information.

2. What does the author mainly want to tell us by Paragraph 3?

A．The efforts she made.	B．The dream she realized.
C．The reason why she became a hit.	D．The disease her mother suffered from.

3. What did Quan’s father do with the money a businessman offered?

A．He refused it politely.	B．He accepted it joyfully.
C．He donated it to a hospital.	D．He gave it away to his daughter.

4. What can we infer about Quan Hongchan from the text?

A．She needs medical services.

B．She is dutiful and strong-willed.

C．She is overconfident and caring.

D．She wants to chase her fans out of her home.