Unit 2 Onwards and upwards Review 单元达标检测-2020-2021学年高二上学期英语期末考点大串讲（新教材外研版选择性必修第一册）

Unit 2 Onwards and upwards Review 单元达标检测解析版 第一部分　阅读理解(共两节，满分35分) 第一节　(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A Maria(1718～1799) was a famous Italian mathematician.She was described in a book as follows：“Maria was a child prodigy(神童)，but was also shy.” She stayed at home，teaching the younger children and following her own studies.When her mother died after giving birth to twenty-one children，Maria took over the running of the household.At the age of twenty she started a ten-year project，a book bringing together the work on calculus(微积分学) of Leibnitz and Newton titled Analytic Institutions.Sometimes she would have trouble with a problem，but her mind went on working even in her sleep；she would sleepwalk to her study and back to bed.In the morning，she would find the answer to the problem waiting on her desk.Her book made her famous；she was living proof of what she had argued at nine years old that women had a right to study science.But Maria had other interests in her life apart from mathematics.She had always worked with the poor people in her area，and she had asked her father for separate rooms and turned them into a private hospital.She worked at the hospital (and another) until she died at the age of eighty-one.Maria wrote an important book on mathematics，as well as another unpublished book.She ran a household of over twenty people，and she worked for people who had not had her luck and opportunities.Each one of these things was remarkable，but she did them all. 21．We know from the text that Maria . A．was a maths teacher when she was young B．lived a rich life in her childhood C．was born in a large family D．was too shy to teach others 22．It can be inferred from the text that . A．there were some good schools for children when Maria was young B．women were not allowed to study science when Maria was a little girl C．women had equal rights to learn anything as boys did D．Maria had the ability to make enough money to bring up her brothers