Tu Youyou has become the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work in helping to create an anti-malaria(疟疾) medicine. The 84-year-old’s route to the honour has been anything but traditional. In China, she is being called the "three nos" winner: no medical degree, no doctorate, and she’s never worked overseas.
In 1967, malaria, a then deadly disease, spread by mosquitoes was decimating Chinese soldiers fighting Americans in the jungles of northern Vietnam. A secret research unit “Mission 523 “was formed to find a cure for the illness. Two years later, Tu Youyou was instructed to become the new head of “Mission 523”.
“Mission523” read ancient books carefully for a long time to find historical methods of fighting malaria. When she started her search for an anti-malarial drug, more than 240,000 compounds(化合物) around the world had already been tested, without any success. Finally, the team found a brief reference to one substance, sweet wormwood（青蒿）, which had been used to treat malaria in China around 400 AD. The team took out one active compound in wormwood, and then tested it. But nothing was effective until Tu Youyou returned to the original ancient text. After another careful reading, she changed the drug recipe one final time, heating the compound without allowing it to reach boiling point.
After the drug showed promising results in mice and monkeys, Tu Youyou volunteered to be the first human recipient of the new drug. “
In any case, Tu Youyou is consistently praised for her drive and passion. One former colleague. Lianda Li, says Ms Tu is “unsociable and quite straightforward”, adding that “if she disagrees with something, she will say it.”
Another colleague, Fuming Liao, who has worked with Tu Youyou for more than 40 years, describes her as a “tough and stubborn woman”. Stubborn enough to spend decades piecing together ancient texts, she applies them to modern scientific practices. The result has saved millions of lives.
1.According to Para. I, we can learn that_______.
A. Tu is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
B. Tu has a medical degree
C. Tu’s road to success is not traditional
D. Tu discovered a cure for malaria
2. The underlined word “decimating” can be replaced by_______.
A. encouraging B. killing
C. annoying D. benefiting
3. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Tu first invented the idea of using sweet wormwood as a cure.
B. Tu was inspired by medical textbooks published in northern vietnem.
C. The compound needs to be heated to the boiling point to be effective.
D. Over 240,000 compounds were proved ineffective before Tu’s seareh.
4.Tu Youyou can be best described as a _______ person.
A. devoted and stubborn
B. straightforward and mean
C. considerate and tough
D. sociable and generous
When I was young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember the shiny box on the wall. But I was too little to reach it, I could only listen to my mother talk on it.
I discovered that inside the wonderful box lived an amazing person whose name was Information Please. There was nothing she did not know.
One day my mother went out. I accidentally hurt my finger when I was playing with a hammer. I walked around the house sucking my hurting finger, finally seeing the telephone. Quickly I dragged a chair over and climbed up.
“Information Please,” I spoke into the receiver. A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear, “Information.”
“I hurt my finger…” I cried into the phone.
“Isn’t your mother home?” came the question.
“Nobody’s home but me.” I sobbed.
“Are you bleeding?” the voice asked.
“No,” I replied. “I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts.”
“Can you open your icebox?” she asked. I said I could.
“Then take a little piece of ice and hold it to your finger.” Said the voice.
After that, I called “Information Please” for everything. I asked her for help with my geography and she told me where Philadelphia was. She helped me with my math. She told me her name was Sally.
Then there was the time my pet canary (金丝雀) died. I called “Information Please” and told Sally the sad story. “Why is it that birds sing so beautifully and bring joy to all families, only to end up as a pile of feathers?” She listened, then said quietly, “Paul, always remember that there are other worlds to sing in.” Somehow I felt better.
One day when I called “Information Please” again, a different voice answered “Information.”
I asked for Sally. “Are you a friend?” she said.
“Yes.” I answered
“I’m sorry to have to tell you this,” she said. “She died five days ago.” Before I could hang up she said, “Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Paul?”
“Yes!”
“Well, Sally left a message for you. The note said, “Tell him I still say there are other worlds to sing in. He’ll know what I mean.” I thanked her and hung up. I knew what Sally meant.
1.When the author hurt his finger, he rang because______.
A. he believed that the telephone knew everything.
B. the telephone could tell him a doctor’s number
C. his mother was on the other end of the telephone
D. he was once told to ask for help in this way
2. Through the help from Sally, it can be inferred that______.
A. Sally was a geography teacher
B. Sally was the author’s friend
C. Sally was a considerate person
D. Sally was an imaginary person
3.What did Sally really mean by her message?
A. She was sure that she could sing in other worlds.
B. She didn’t want Paul to be sad about her death.
C. Singing helped Paul to face death more easily.
D. There was no need for Paul to call her anymore.
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A. My Pet’s Death B. An Amazing Woman
C. A Healing Message D. My Magic Box
书面表达
近几年，随着网络的普及，越来越多的学生书写明显退步。为了保护传统的民族文化——汉字，你学校学生会向全校学生提出建议：
1. 减少课外上网时间，多读书；
2. 养成每天记日记的好习惯，练习书法；
3. 少发电子邮件，尽量动手给亲朋好友写书信。
请你根据以上内容，代表学生会写一封英文倡议书。
注意：1. 词数100左右。 2. 可以适当增加细节以使行文连贯；
3. 邮件的开头和结尾已为你写好。 4. 参考词汇:汉字Chinese characters
Dear friends,
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短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句不超过两个错误。 错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加： 在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除： 把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改： 在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意： 1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last weekend, I helped my grandparents prepare for our trip to Xi'an. On Saturday morning, together with them, I searched the Internet for the train schedule, the weather in Xi'an, or some hotel informations. In the afternoon, I went to the train station and manage to buy two tickets for them since there was a long queue. After dinner, I packed all the things that might be need into suitcase. And the next morning, I went to the station to see them away off. Wave goodbye to them on the platform, I felt very happy for them and wished them a safer journey.
语篇型语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多余3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Eddie drove over to Betty’s to see her, only to find she wasn’t home, so he wrote a note: “Hi, Betty. I love you and I miss you.” He was about _1.______(tape) the note onto her front door when he saw her car pull up. She walked up the _2._____(stair). Instead of the big smile, hug, and kiss that she usually greeted him with, she simply said, “What’s up?”
“You didn’t call me back for _3.____ last two days, honey, so I came over to see you.” He gave her the note. She _4.______(open) it, read it, and put it on the kitchen table.
“That’s sweet,” she said, 5.____(walk) into her bedroom. Eddie followed her and tried to hug her. “I have to wash my hands,” she said. When she came out of the bathroom, she told Eddie that he should go home. She said she was hungry after a whole6.____(tire) day, and was going to eat something 7.___ take a nap. She added that she might call him _8._____(late).
9._____Eddie's entire five-minute visit, Betty constantly avoided his eyes. Instead of walking him out to his car, Betty locked her front door as soon as Eddie was outside her apartment, much to his 10.____(disappoint).
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Samuel was back at the bookshop. He had only one goal in mind---to find a book that he had not _________ the previous day. The book was one of the seven that he had __________ to buy. But at the last moment, he changed his ________. He put all seven back on the shelf.
Samuel had a personal _________ at home with over 1,000 books--- almost all unread. He had more reading material in his small ___________ than he could finish in two lifetimes, yet his __________ for more remained burning. He finally __________put his foot down. “Not one more book”, he told himself, “____________it was really special.” In fact, yesterday's book fit the bill. It was a biography of one of his favorite authors----Stephen King, one of America's most ________ fiction authors. But it wasn’t ____________ for King himself---early in his ____________, he got hundreds of rejection(退稿) notices. Samuel wanted to be a great __________ and King was his role model.
Samuel immediately___________ one of the books he had piled up yesterday, and in minutes, he found all except one--- the Stephen King book. “What a ____________!” he thought, “The one that I want to find is the one that I can't find”
Samuel took a walk __________the shop, knowing that people often pick up something in one place and then leave it in another. The book was a thick paperback with a red cover. But it was _________ to be found.
So for Samuel, the big ____________ was on. Every bookshop he went to would involve a search for the King book. This new search added the ___________ to his bookshop life.
Samuel had held something special in his hands. But only when he ____________ did he realize its value. When he found it again, it would _________ be his favorite book that he never got around to reading.
1.A. found B. bought C. missed D. ordered
2.A. got B. asked C. refused D. intended
3.A. habit B. attitude C. mind D. emotion
4.A. relationship B. computer C. library D. choice
5.A. office B. apartment C. bed D. desk
6.A. house B. plan C. stove D. thirst
7.A. decided B. offered C. hoped D. agreed
8.A. because B. unless C. when D. if
9.A. popular B. qualified C. traditional D. unsuccessful
10.A. important B. terrible C. tiring D. easy
11.A. childhood B. calendar C. career D. creation
12.A. writer B. collector C. thinker D. reader
13.A. took B. spotted C. selected D. ignored
14.A. deal B. book C. joke D. pity
15.A. into B. outside C. towards D. throughout
16.A. nowhere B. somewhere C. anywhere D. everywhere
17.A. inspiration B. shopping C. hunt D. walk
18.A. goal B. curiosity C. pressure D. money
19.A. think it overB. got it through C. finished it off D. let it go
20.A. formally B. certainly C. possibly D. generally
