1 . Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 8th January,1942.He went to school in St. Albans-a small city near London. Although he did well, he was never top of his class. After leaving school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, and then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology(宇宙学). As he himself admitted he wasn’t very serious about studying. He was a very lazy student, and did very little work. However, he still achieved extremely good marks.

Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him at the age of 20. He started to bump into things, and often fell over for no reason. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his father was so worried that he was sent to hospital for a test. Finally, the result came back. Hawking had motor neurone disease(运动神经元病), an incurable illness which causes the muscles of the body to waste away. Doctors said he would die before he was 23.

At first, Hawking became extremely depressed. After a while, though, he began to see his life in a different way. As he later wrote, “Before my illness had been diagnosed(诊断),there had not seemed to be anything worth doing. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do.” Hawking married, found a job at Cambridge University, where he worked all his life, and had three children. He also went to do some of the most important scientific research ever carried out.

His story shows that nobody, however bad their situation is, should lose hope. “Life is not fair,” he once said.“You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.”

1. As a university student, Stephen Hawking _________.

A．worked extremely hard	B．studied maths and chemistry
C．was lazy and did very little work	D．only achieved average marks

2. Hawking first noticed something was wrong with him when _________.

A．he visited his family at Christmas time one year

B．he was 20

C．his father made him see a doctor

D．he was sent to hospital for a test

3. What does Hawking’s story tell us arcording to the passage?

A．Never lose hope even if it is a bad situation.

B．No pain, no gain.

C．You never know what will happen in life.

D．Life is full of challenges.

4. What might be the best title of this passage?

A．A Lazy Boy	B．Life Is Fair
C．Motor Neurone Disease	D．Professor Stephen Hawking

2 . 阅读下面一段材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（每空一词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

This was not an easy task. The reason    1    this was difficult was that the team had    2    (limit) resources. They did not have enough staff, and the laboratory    3    they worked had poor air quality. However, after hundreds of failed    4    (experiment), they eventually    5    (come across) a promising chemical. It worked well in experiments on animals, but they had to know if it was safe for humans. Tu Youyou     6    (brave) volunteered to be    7     first human subject when they were ready    8    (start) testing and the rest of her team followed her. The test was a success. The medicine they discovered, artemisnin, has now become the world’s most    9    (effect) drug for    10    (fight) malaria.

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Tu Youyou is famous around the world. She is the first Chinese female scientist     1     (win)a Nobel Prize. She studied medicine at Peking University Health Science Centre. After her     2     (graduate)from university, she became a member of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. In 1969, she     3     (choose)to establish a team to find a cure     4     malaria—a disease that killed millions of people every year. It was not     5     easy task. They had limited resources and they did not have enough staff. Tu Youyou studied ancient Chinese medical literature and     6     (visit)experts in traditional Chinese medicine. Then she and her team began using modern research methods to study these Chinese herbs one by one. After hundreds of failed experiments, they     7     (eventual)came across a promising chemical. The medicine they discovered was artemisinin,     8     has now become the world’s     9    (effective)drug for fighting malaria.

According to Tu Youyou, from their research experience in     10     (discover)artemisinin, they learnt the wisdom behind both Chinese and Western medicine. And there is great potential for future advances if we integrate these two kinds of wisdom fully.

6 . Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest geniuses of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. "There is no such thing as genius," Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.

But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. "Work." he answered. "Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

1. Edison thought ________.

A．he could be happy if he was a genius

B．genius plays the most important part in one's success

C．hard work could do better than genius

D．genius could do better than hard work

2. Edison was ________.

A．very interested in nature

B．interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C．interested in changing people's ideas

D．uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

3. In Edison's opinion, ________.

A．thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure

B．people's success lies mostly in genius

C．hard work is the second most important thing in making people successful

D．there are few secrets for him to discover later

4. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies ________.

A．life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

B．Edison made 100 inventions in his life

C．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years

D．people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years' work

7 . Read Yuan Longping’s information and answer the questions.

Name	Yuan Longping	Nationality	Chinese
Occupation	Scientist	Birthdate	Sept.7, 1930
education	Graduated from southwest agricultural college in 1953
Life goal	Finding ways to produce more rice
Dream	To export his hybrid rice (杂交水稻) so that it can be grown around the globe
Achievement	In 1973, he developed hybrid rice which produced 20% more than normal rice
Hobbies	Listening to violin music, playing mahjiong, swimming and reading

1. Which of the following is Yuan Longping’s favourite music?

A．Pop music.

B．Country music .

C．Violin music.

D．Piano music.

2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the form?

A．His name.

B．His nationality.

C．His birthplace.

D．His occupation.

3. From the form,we know that ________.

A．Yuan Longping developed hybrid rice in 1972.

B．Yuan Longping graduated from Southwest College in 1953.

C．Yuan Longping was born in 1930.

D．Yuan Longping dreamt to win a big prize.

4. According to the form, which of the following is NOT true?

A．Yuan Longping was an expert in agriculture.

B．Yuan Longping hoped his hybrid rice could be grown only in China.

C．Yuan Longping graduated from college when he was 23 years old.

D．Yuan Longping’s life goal was to find ways to grow more rice.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Edison was one of the greatest    1    (scientist) that greatly shaped modern society.

When he was seven, Edison's family moved from Ohio to Michigan after his father got a job there.

Because of    2    ( hear) problems, he had difficulty following the lessons and often ran away from school. However, he used the time    3    ( read) books and set up a lab in his home. But the smell from    4    ( he) lab was often so strong that his mother had to stop him from carrying out any more experiments at home.

At the age of twelve, Edison got    5    job on the Grand Trunk Railway. There, he made use of an abandoned (被抛弃的)car as his lab. During that time, he    6    (successful) developed a device (设备)that could send messages. By 1869, Edison's inventions in telegraphy were widely accepted, which made him decide to leave the job and become a full-time inventor. Edison's most "well-known” inventions included the electric light bulb,microphones and so on. When asked to explain    7    he could come up with so many inventions, Edison said u Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison died    8    October 18, 1931. At the time of his death, he was still    9    ( do) experiments in his lab in West Orange, New Jersey. He clearly enjoyed his work and    10    (live ) life to the fullest.

9 . Every child who grows up in a big family needs a little peace sometimes. As a little girl, Nalini Nadkarni discovered one place where she could always find it. She would climb up into the tall trees around her home. There, high in the trees, she made herself a promise. One day, she would become someone who could use her love of trees to help protect them.

As she grew, she became interested in the rainforest. Looking up into the forest trees, Nalini thought there were surely things to be learned in the treetops. She was told, however, that there was nothing important to learn high above her head. Luckily, that didn't stop her. Instead, she used her rock climbing skills to safely reach the forest treetops. There, she discovered the whole ecosystem. It needed to be studied so scientists could get deeper understanding of the rainforest.

Dr Nadkarni also discovered the importance of canopy soil(树冠层土壤). When mosses(藓)and other plants that live on trees die, they slowly become canopy soil. The soil is nutrient—rich, and the whole ecosystem depends on it. Even the trees themselves take nutrients from canopy soil.

To create greater interest in forest studies, Dr Nadkarni really got creative. In the early 2000s, she bought second hand Barbie dolls and turned them into "forest Barbies". Finally, Mattel, the company behind Barbie, used Dr Nadkarni's idea to create dolls to make science interesting to children everywhere. Now, Dr Nadkarni can truly consider her childhood promise well kept.

1. The underlined word "that" in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

A．the forest treetops	B．a different opinion
C．Dr Nadkarni's bad luck	D．the dangers of climbing trees

2. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A．What canopy soil is.

B．How a new ecosystem was found.

C．Dr Nadkarni's childhood promise.

D．One of Dr Nadkarni's discoveries.

3. Dr Nadkarni used Barbie dolls to ________.

A．raise money for her research

B．help Mattel reach more children

C．make the company earn much money

D．make children more interested in science

4. Which of the following is TRUE about Dr Nadkarni?

A．She is a creative scientist.

B．She can't keep her promise.

C．She was born into a small family.

D．She loved Barbie dolls as a little girl.