甘肃省古浪县第二中学2019-2020学年高二12月基础知识竞赛英语试题（无答案）

古浪二中2019年冬季基础知识竞赛 高二年级英语试卷 本试题共分第I卷（80分）和第Ⅱ卷（70分），共150分，考试时间120分钟请将 所有答案写在答题卡上。 第I卷（选择题，共80分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Mary Somerville was born in 1780 in Burntisland, Scotland. Her contribution to mathematics was in both algebra (代数) and differential and integral calculus (微积分学). Mary was one of the world’s first famous female mathematicians. She became interested in mathematics and decided to study it at the time when it was considered unacceptable for a woman to do so. She bought books on algebra and geometry and read them at night. In spite of disapproval from people around her, she firmly went on with her struggle to learn. She won a prize for her solution to an algebra problem. She went on to write several books on mathematics. Later in her life, she thought deeply about the years in which she had persevered (坚持) almost without hope and said, “It taught me never to lose heart.” Mary’s way of learning remains useful today. If she w