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课后提升练(十三) Section Ⅲ　GRAMMAR [对应学生用书P181] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Barbara McClintock was one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. She made important discoveries about genes and chromosomes (染色体)． Barbara McClintock was born in 1902 in Hartford，Connecticut. Her family moved to the Brooklyn area of New York City in 1908.Barbara was an active child with interests in sports and music. She also developed an interest in science. She studied science at Cornell University in Ithaca，New York. Barbara was among a small number of undergraduate students to receive training in genetics in 1921.Years later，she noted that few college students wanted to study genetics. Barbara McClintock decided to study botany，the scientific study of plants，at Cornell University. She completed her undergraduate studies in 1923.McClintock decided to continue her education at Cornell. She completed a master's degree in 1925.Two years later，she finished all her requirements for a doctorate degree. McClintock stayed at Cornell after she completed her education. She taught students botany. The 1930s were not a good time to be a young scientist in the United States. The country was in the middle of the great economic depression. Millions of Americans were unemployed. Male scientists were offered jobs. But female geneticists were not much in demand. An old friend from Cornell，Marcus Rhoades，invited McClintock to spend the summer of 1941 working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It is a research center on Long Island，near New York City. McClintock started in a temporary job with the genetics department. A short time later，she accepted a permanent position with the laboratory. This gave her the freedom to continue her research without having to teach or repeatedly ask for financial aid. By the 1970s，her discoveries had had an effect on everything from genetic engineering to cancer research. McClintock won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of the ability of gen