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学校里组织Week of Scientists活动，Tom计划将曾两次获得诺贝尔奖的科学家居里夫人介绍给同学．他从不同的书籍中找到了如下的资料，你能帮他按顺序整理一下吗？

　　a．Maria Skotdowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 7th November 1867. (1)

　　b．Then, three years later, Pierre dies and Marie's world changed forever. (　　)

　　c．She did very well and got her degree in 1893. (　　)

　　d．She got married with Pierre Curie in 1895 and Maria became Marie Curie. (　　)

　　e．She couldn't go to university because universities in Poland were not open to women, so she taught herself. (　　)

　　f．Four years after the death of her mother, she left school. (　　)

　　g．In 1903 Marie and Pierre won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of natural radioactivity. (　　)

　　h．Her childhood was not happy. Her elder sister died when she was nine and her mother died when she was eleven. (　　)

　　i．In 1891 Maria went to Paris to study physics. (　　)

　　j．In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of two new radioactive chemical elements-radium and polonium. (　　)

　　k．Maria began working with her husband before their first daughter was born and together they discovered radium in 1898. (　　)

　　l．A year after she got her physics degree she got a math degree, too. (　　)

New words:

degree 学位 radium 镭 radioactivity 放射性 polonium 镨

完形填空（15分）

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I stood in the doorway, watching my elder brother carefully putting clothes into his bag. I coughed uneasily. Finally 　　36　　 that I was there, Rocky turned towards me with a sad smile.

“I’m 　　37　　 tomorrow,” he said.

“I know.” My __38____ was almost a whisper. I was 　　39　　 at myself for being so weak, but I wasn’t about to cry.

“My 　　40　　 is early, so there is still 　　41　　 time to come to the airport,” he said. Seeing the 　　42　　 look on my face, he quickly added, “I promise I won’t leave without saying goodbye.”

I tried to say 　　43　　 , but didn’t. It’s always 　　44　　 to keep quiet if you’re about to cry. “You promised you wouldn’t cry,” he said to me, thinking that I was close to 　　45　　.

I remember the day he taught me how to ride a bike. 　　46　　 I thought he was always right behind me, holding the seat to keep me from 　　47　　. I was happy with this, but he knew he couldn’t hold me up all my life. He told me that one day he would have to let go.

His coughing stopped my thinking. What was left to say? How could I say 　　48　　 to the person who taught me everything?

The next morning I 　　49　　 , looked at my alarm clock, and realized he had left　50　 ago. We never even said goodbye.

Goodbye, Rocky! Although he may have been many miles away, I knew he heard me, even if it was only an answer in his heart.

1.A. forgetting         B. realizing            C. watching         D. learning

2.A. arriving　         B. living　         C. coming　         D. leaving

3. A. voice             B. sound　          C. noise                D. word

4.A. glad　             B. moved　          C. angry　          D. pleased

5. A. ship　                B. flight　         C. train　              D. bus

6.A. enough　           B. little　         C. no　             D. busy

7. A. surprised　           B. excited　            C. sad              D. happy

8. A. anything　            B. everything　     C. something　      D. nothing

9.A. stranger　         B. better　         C. worse　          D. easier

10.A. tears             B. smiles　         C. words　          D. sadness

11. A. At last　            B. Since　          C. At first　           D. So far

12. A. riding　         B. running          C. walking          D. falling

13.A. goodbye　         B. hello　          C. yes              D. sorry

14. A. gave up　            B. stood up         C. looked up　      D. woke up

15.A. minutes　         B. hours　          C. days　           D. weeks

 

 

完形填空（15分）

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I stood in the doorway, watching my elder brother carefully putting clothes into his bag. I coughed uneasily. Finally 　　36　　 that I was there, Rocky turned towards me with a sad smile.

“I’m 　　37　　 tomorrow,” he said.

“I know.” My __38____ was almost a whisper. I was 　　39　　 at myself for being so weak, but I wasn’t about to cry.

“My 　　40　　 is early, so there is still 　　41　　 time to come to the airport,” he said. Seeing the 　　42　　 look on my face, he quickly added, “I promise I won’t leave without saying goodbye.”

I tried to say 　　43　　 , but didn’t. It’s always 　　44　　 to keep quiet if you’re about to cry. “You promised you wouldn’t cry,” he said to me, thinking that I was close to 　　45　　.

I remember the day he taught me how to ride a bike. 　　46　　 I thought he was always right behind me, holding the seat to keep me from 　　47　　. I was happy with this, but he knew he couldn’t hold me up all my life. He told me that one day he would have to let go.

His coughing stopped my thinking. What was left to say? How could I say 　　48　　 to the person who taught me everything?

The next morning I 　　49　　 , looked at my alarm clock, and realized he had left　50　 ago. We never even said goodbye.

Goodbye, Rocky! Although he may have been many miles away, I knew he heard me, even if it was only an answer in his heart.

1.A. forgetting         B. realizing            C. watching         D. learning

2.A. arriving　         B. living　         C. coming　         D. leaving

3. A. voice             B. sound　          C. noise                D. word

4.A. glad　             B. moved　          C. angry　          D. pleased

5. A. ship　                B. flight　         C. train　              D. bus

6.A. enough　           B. little　         C. no　             D. busy

7. A. surprised　           B. excited　            C. sad              D. happy

8. A. anything　            B. everything　     C. something　      D. nothing

9.A. stranger　         B. better　         C. worse　          D. easier

10.A. tears             B. smiles　         C. words　          D. sadness

11. A. At last　            B. Since　          C. At first　           D. So far

12. A. riding　         B. running          C. walking          D. falling

13.A. goodbye　         B. hello　          C. yes              D. sorry

14. A. gave up　            B. stood up         C. looked up　      D. woke up

15.A. minutes　         B. hours　          C. days　           D. weeks

 

 

阅读理解

　　People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. Each contains (包含) many thousands of words. But we do not need all these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. Before you leave school, you will learn only one thousand more.

　　The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary bigger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy English for you to read. You will enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your most useful book.

1．The number of different languages spoken is about ________.

[　　]

2．Before you leave your school, you'll learn ________.

[　　]

A．only about two thousand words

B．five hundred words

C．three or four thousand words

D．only one thousand more

3．Each language usually contains ________.

[　　]

A．two thousand words

B．hundreds of words

C．different kinds of words

D．many thousands of words

4．To make your vocabulary bigger, you must ________.

[　　]

A．read as many books as you can

B．get as many dictionaries as you can

C．buy plenty of books

D．have a very large English dictionary

5．You will enjoy ________.

[　　]

A．your vocabulary

B．the books written in easy English

C．your dictionary

D．finding new words in a dictionary