湖南省部分地区2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语汇编：阅读理解

湖南省部分地区 2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题解析版汇编 阅读理解 湖南省岳阳市华容县2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。 A 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. 1. What is Sigrid Unset well-known for in history? A. Her