Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old Chinese female scientist, was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology (生理学) or Medicine on Oct. 5. She found a medicine that cures the deadly disease called malaria(疟疾). Tu shared the prize with two scientists from the US and Japan. Tu is the first native Chinese person to get the Nobel Prize in natural science.
Tu found artemisinin (青篙素) in sweet wormwood(青篙) back in 1971. She spent the following years trying to improve the medicine. According to World Health Organization, about 200 million people suffer from malaria around the world, and about half a million die each year. Today, artemisinin is still the most useful medicine that fights against malaria.
When Tu joined the national research team to find the malaria medicine in the 1960s and the 1970s, things were hard. The team didn’t have advanced equipment then. Tu used to medicines by taking taking them herself. Tu’s team searched old Chinese medicine books by hand and tested over 2,000 traditional recipes (配方).
To do research, Tu also had to travel a lot. Once she returned to her family after six months away from home. Her little daughter didn’t recognize her and hid from the “strange woman”. However, Tu never complained. “ I feel rewarded when I see so many cured patients,” she said.
1.Malaria is a kind of .
A. food B. deadly disease C. cancer
2.How many people shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4
3.Tu Youyou found artemisinin .
A. at the age of 40
B. after an American scientist found it
C.When she joined the national research team in the 1960s
4.Why did Tu use to test the medicine by taking them herself?
A. Because she liked to do so.
B. Because someone forced her.
C. Because she didn’t have good equipment.
5.Which is True according to this passage?
A. About 100 million people die from malaria every year.
B. Old Chinese medicine books are useless.
C. Tu’s little daughter didn’t know her after she left home for six months.
根据短文内容，从每小题A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Mobile phone use among children has become a problem for the school this year. Several children have got mobile phones as Christmas gifts, and more students will want them.
Mary Bluentt, an official, said mobile phone use is a distraction（分心的事）to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.
She said some schools had tried to ban（禁止）mobile phones. Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn't get in touch with their children.
Many teachers said students should not have mobile phones at school, but if there were special or good reasons（理由）, they could leave their phones at school office. They also said there were many reasons why the students shouldn't have mobile phones at school: they were easy to lose and were a distraction from studies.
Many people say that they understand why parents would want their children to have phones, but they think schools should let the students know when they can use their mobile phones.
1.Some middle schools in Australia have stopped students from carrying mobile phones .
A. because they are students
B. because they are children
C. when they are at school
2.We know from the passage that some children get mobile phones from .
A. some mobile phone users
B. their parents and friends
C. the makers and sellers
3.The underlined word "cheat" means in this passage.
A. 查询 B.作弊 C.聊天
4.Some parents felt unhappy because they couldn't during school hours.
A. get in touch with their children
B. help the teachers with their work
C. leave their mobile phones at school office
5.The passage tells us that students shouldn't have mobile phones at school except for .
A. special or good reasons
B. their parents feel unhappy
C. listening music
Do you know what couch-potato means? Well, in America, the word is now often used. You see, in America, many people often spend their free time sitting on a couch (沙发) watching TV. As there are many channels to choose, the TV can be quite interesting and very addictive (使人上瘾的). One may sit and watch TV for hours and hours without stop! Well, these people who do nothing all day except watching TV are called couch-potatoes.
In America, while watching TV, most often sitting still with eyes looking right into the TV set. Also because these people are addictive to TV, they don’t take exercise and usually get very fat. So in many ways, these people look like real potatoes! Well, because they look fat, and watch TV on a couch, they are all called couch-potatoes. Now you know what a couch-potato means. The next time if you see someone watching TV too long, just say, “What a couch-potato!”
根据短文内容，判断下列句子是否正确，对的涂（A），错的涂（B）。(10分)
1.The word couch-potato is widely used in Germany.
2.Couch-potato is used to call the people who like eating potatoes very much.
3.A person who is called Couch-potato always spends lots of time watching TV.
4.Couch-potatoes usually get fat because they don’t like doing exercise.
5.The passage mainly tells us how to choose TV programs.
口语运用: 根据对话内容，从方框中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，补全对话。
A: Good morning. Granny, you look so weak. What’s the matter with you?
B: Oh, boy. 1.
A: How long have you been like this?
B: 2.
A: That sounds terrible!
B: The chemical factory produces terrible gas. The bad air makes my chest hurt. 3.I can’t sleep well at night because of the noise.
A: 4.
B: I’m always in a bad mood because I can’t stand the environment here. Anyway, I’ll manage to leave this place.
A: 5. But now you’d better go to see a doctor.
A. The factory makes too much noise, too. B. It’s difficult for me to breathe. C. That’s too bad. D. I think I should write to the newspaper about these problems. E. I have been like this since last month. |
完形填空: 从每小题A、B、C三个选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。
Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some ask for more food than they can eat, some students to turn off the water taps after they finish washing, and others often forget to turn off the when they leave the classroom. They say these things are cheap, I don’t agree with them.
Waste can bring a lot of problems. Though China is rich in some resources, we are of others. It is reported that we will have no coal or oil to in 100 years. So if we go on wasting our resources, can we use in the future and where can we move? Think about it. I think we say no to the students who waste things every day. should stop wasting as soon as possible. If we do our best, waste can be stopped and many natural resources can be saved.
1.A. people B. students C. workers
2.A. forget B. remember C. have
3.A. lights B. radio C. fridge
4.A. Or B. and C. but
5.A. sure B. full C. short
6.A. make B. use C. choose
7.A. how B. when C. what
8.A. can B. shouldn’t C. should
9.A. Anybody B. Everybody C. Somebody
10.A. One day B. Two days C.some days
— What did he say just now?
— He asked me ________.
A. when my sister came back
B. when did my sister come back
C. When my sister will come back
