必修第3册 UNIT 5 THE VALUE OF MONEY-（课件+作业）2023新教材新高考英语【导学教程】新编大一轮总复习（人教版）

Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2020·湖南检测)Besides Marie Curie, these women devoted their lives to science and made significant advances. Caroline Herschel(1750—1848) Herschel was ill­treated by her parents in Hanover until her older brother, William, brought her to England in 1772 to run his household in Bath. Later, her brother switched careers from singing and went into astronomy. Caroline followed. In addition to assisting her brother in his observations and in the building of telescopes, Caroline became a brilliant astronomer in her own right. She was the first woman to discover a comet (she discovered eight in total) and the first to have her work published by the Royal Society. Barbara McClintock(1902—1992) While studying botany at Cornell University in the 1920s, Barbara McClintock got her first taste of genetics and was hooked. She continued her research at universities in California, Missouri and Germany before finding a permanent home at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. It was there that, after observing the patterns of coloration of; corn kernels over generations of plants, she determined that genes could move within and between chromosomes. McClintock was awarded a Lasker Prize in 1981 and Nobel Prize in 1983. Maria Goeppert Mayer(1906—1972) A German immigrant to the US who studied at Johns Hopkins during the Great Depression, Maria Goeppert Mayer, born in 1906 , continued her studies even when no university would employ her and went on to become a chemical physicist. Her most famous contribution to modern physics is discovering the nuclear shell of the atomic nucleus, for which she won the Nobel Prize in 1963.She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize, after Marie Curie. [语篇解读]　本文是应用文。文章主要介绍了科学界三位伟大的女性以及她们所做出的巨大贡献和成就。 1．Who might Caroline Herschel be most grateful to for her achievements in astronomy? A．Her parents.　　　 B．Her brother. C．The Royal Society. D．Astronomers of her time. 解析　细节理解题。根据第二段中Herschel was ill­treated by her parents in Hanover until her older brother,