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Unit 1 Nature in the Balance(B卷·能力提升练)
(时间:60分钟,满分:100分)
一、阅读理解(共15小题,每小题2.5分,满分37.5题)
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Madame Marie Curie is famous for having won two Nobel Prizes, but many other women have also been awarded the prize. Here are their stories.
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset is one of the three Norwegian authors to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Undset received the Prize in 1928, for her powerful description of life during the Middle Ages in Scandinavia. In her lifetime, she wrote two huge novels set against the background of Norway in the 13th century, the 3-volume Kristine Lavransdatter, and the 4-volume Olav Audunss.
Gerty Theresa Cori
Gerty and her husband, Carl Cori, moved to the United States in 1922, where the two medical doctors worked together at Roswell Park Cancer Center Institute in New York, hoping to find the cure for diabetes. In 1947, Gerty, Carl and the Argentine doctor Bernardo were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, making Gerty the first woman to hold the honor.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born in 1906 in Germany, Maria Goeppert-Mayer moved to the US with her husband Joseph Edward Mayer, a chemist, in 1930. While in the US, Goeppert-Mayer developed the nuclear shell model, for which she shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner. She was the first woman to receive the award in 60 years.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM
Dorothy Hodgkin showed a love for science as a child and at age 18, she began studying chemistry at a women-only Oxford college. She entered her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she first took an interest in X-ray crystallography and began studying the structure of proteins. In 1934, she moved back to Oxford, where she was appointed the university’s first research chemistry fellow. Her work on mapping vitamin B12 earned her the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1964.
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