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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

阅读理解：

　If you have never lived on a farm, you have missed some interesting experiences with cats. A farm is a place where there are always plenty of milk for the cats to drink, and secondly, there are plenty of rats for them to kill. So farmyard cats are working animals quite as much as the farmer's dogs are, and a good farmer is careful to treat his cats well both cats and rats carry on their business mostly by night. So it is from time to time at night that cries are heard as one of the long-tailed fellows meets his end.

(1) From this passage we know ________.

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A．there are a good many cats on farm

B．rats are eaten by cats on a farm

C．there are a large number of rats on a farm

D．all the above facts

(2) There are a lot of cats on a farm because ________.

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A．the farm is a milk farm and many rats are fed there

B．they like the milk on the farm,and the rats there kill themselves

C．they can drink much milk and catch many rats there

D．all the above answers are worng

(3) The reason why a good farmer treats his cats well is that ________.

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A．cats are looked upon as useful animals

B．people like to hear the cat's cries at night

C．people like to have interesting experinces with cats

D．people have plenty of milk to feet cats

(4) The phrase“long-tailed fellow” means________and “meets his end” mean________.

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A．cats...meets his enemy

B．rats...is killed and dies

C．dog...meets his own tail

D．snakes...stops fighting

(5) Which of the following sentences is not ture?　　　

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A．All farmers treat cats well.

B．Both cats and rats are active by night.

C．The writer thoinks that experiences with cats are interesting.

D．Cats like to catch rats.

Go and watch the baby when he is asleep，see how his chest(胸)rises and falls，then rises and falls again．

He does not know what he is doing，but he breathes(呼吸)as well as the oldest and cleverest man in the world．He began to breathe when he was born，and he will not stop until he dies，still he does it without thinking about it．

See how long you can hold your breath．

In some places men dive(潜水)in the sea for pearls (珍珠)．They pick up shells(贝壳)that hold the pearls，and the longer they stay under water，the more pearls they can find．For the reason(原因)they hold their breath as long as they possibly can．Yet even these pearl divers can't go without breathing for a long time．

Watch to see how many times a man draws his breath every minute．Some men breathe fifteen times a minute．An elephant breathes only eight times．It was told that a mouse breathes a hundred and twenty times each minute．

No one needs to tell us that what we breathe every minute of every day is air．It is around us everywhere，like wonderful sea that we can not see．

1．Everyone began to breathe ________． (　)

A．when he is old

B．when he is clever

C．when he was born

D．when he was a child

2．What do the men dive in the deep sea for? (　)

A．They want to hold their breath．

B．They want to make their bodies stronger．

C．They want to find pearls．

D．They want to find reasons for breath．

3．A mouse breathes ________ times more than an elephant every minute． (　)

A．105

B．120

C．112

D．15

4．The word “It” in the last paragraph(段)means ________． (　)

A．wonderful sea

B．air

C．a mouse

D．an elephant

5．Which of the following is NOT TRUE in thepassage? (　)

A．We can't live without air．

B．The babies also need to breathe．

C．The dead also need to breathe．

D．Animals need to breathe every minute．

 

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Lightning(闪电)hit a very large tree in the forest. The tree died. It fell to the ground. Soon the tree began to rot(腐烂). Seeds(种子) from other trees fell to the ground. These seeds could not grow. There were too many plants on the forest floor. But one seed fell on the dead tree. It was high off the ground. This seed had room to grow. A new plant grew from the seed that fell on the dead tree. The new plant put out new roots(根). The roots grew into the rotting tree. The roots went through the tree to the ground. The dead tree rotted more and more. But the new plant grew. The rotting tree was its food. The new plant reached (伸展) for the sun. It grew tall and strong. Soon there was another tree in the forest.

1. When a tree dies and falls to the ground it begins to _____ .

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A. grow　　　B. rot　　　C. break　　　D. beat

2. The seeds were from ______ .

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A. dead trees　　　B. rotting trees

C. tree roots　　　D. other trees

3 Which of the following is true?

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A. Seeds do not need room to grow.

B. Seeds can grow in any places.

C. Some seeds plant themselves on the dead tree.

D. Seeds make trees grow fast.

4 In the sentence “This seed had room to grow” the word “room” means ______.

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A. space　　　B. a house　　　C. home　　　D. a bedroom

5. Chose the best title(题目)from the following.

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A. A new plant can grow out of a dead tree.

B. It is important to plant more trees.

C. without water, seeds can't grow.

D. Lightning can't make a tree die.