1 . Stella magazine asked YouGov, a research center, to interview over 1,000 women in Britain about everything from their eating habits to their relationships and family values, to find out what they really think. Here are some of the results.
Eighty percent of women say that losing their health is their greatest concern (关注点）, followed by putting on weight (52%) and losing their jobs (24%). It seems that British women aren’t too happy with their bodies: twenty-three percent of women are on a diet now and fifty-eight percent have gone on a diet in the past. Only four percent of women do more than seven hours’ exercise per week, while twenty-one percent do no exercise at all.
The biggest challenge for modern women is balancing home and work life (82%), followed by bringing up happy children (56%) and finding time for themselves (52%).
As for their love lives, nine percent of women aged 45-54 met their husbands through the internet, and forty-nine percent of women believe that the best age to get married is between 25 and 29.
And what about the relationships between men and women? Fifty-nine percent think fathers should take more responsibility for their children. These women are also not so pleased with their husbands5 efforts at home: fifty-one percent say they now do over seventy-five percent of the housework. Despite this, over seventy percent of women would prefer to have a male boss than a female.
And their heroes? The woman they most admire is ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (7%), followed by the Queen (5%).
1. According to the passage, what is women’s second greatest concern in Britain?| A．Losing their health. | B．Putting on weight. | C．Losing their jobs. | D．Bringing up children. |
| A．Finding time for themselves is the most difficult for British women. |
| B．Forty-nine percent of women met their husbands through the internet. |
| C．Most British women are satisfied with their husbands’ efforts at home. |
| D．The woman that British women most admire is Margaret Thatcher. |
| A．By telling stories. | B．By listing reasons. | C．By using numbers. | D．By asking questions. |
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C． | D． |
2 . It’s not easy to get your papers (论文) published in top science journal Nature. However, Cao Yuan, 24-year-old Chinese scientist, had two papers that he co-wrote published in Nature on May 6. People call him “a genius (天才) born after 1995.”
Cao is a doctoral student (博士生) studying at MIT, a top university in the US. In 2018, he topped Nature’s list of the top 10 people of that year. Cao’s papers are about grapheme (石墨烯)—the thinnest and strongest material in the world. Scientists first discovered it in 2004.
Cao has found “switch (开关)” inside this material. By turning this “switch” on, the material can be used as superconductor ) But when it’s turned off, the material can become an insulator (绝缘体). His finding has opened up whole new field of superconductor physics (超导体物理学). It could allow scientists to find cheaper and easier ways to use electricity.
Cao finished middle and high school in China in just two years. At 14, he enrolled (入学) in School of the Gifted Young (少年班) at the University of Science and Technology. This is a special program that turns gifted teenagers into world-class talents.
His greatest strength (优势) is probably his ability to learn independently, according to his high school physics teacher Huang Jiatang. As a teenager, Cao was unafraid to challenge teachers and ask difficult questions, Huang recalled.
He doesn’t worry about possible failures in his research, either. “He just rolled up his sleeves and continued working (卷起袖子努力干),” Cao’s professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero of MIT said to Nature.
1. What has Cao Yuan found?| A．A new material called graphene. |
| B．How to turn superconductors into insulators. |
| C．A “switch” inside graphene. |
| D．A cheaper and easier way to use electricity. |
a. He studied at MIT.
b. He had two papers published in Nature.
c. He studied at the University of Science and Technology.
d. He has found “switch (开关)” inside this material.
| A．c-a-b-d | B．c-a-d-b | C．a-c-d-b | D．c-d-a-b |
| A．He enrolled in MIT, a top university in the US, at 14. |
| B．He was just like any other student in middle school. |
| C．He showed his talent for science in an early age. |
| D．He was not satisfied with what he learned at school. |
| A．He likes to challenge teachers. | B．He likes to take on challenges. |
| C．He solves difficulties easily. | D．He has failed many times. |
