江苏省南京市联合体2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编：阅读填表

江苏省南京市联合体 2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编 阅读填表 2023年江苏省南京市联合体中考一模英语试卷 六、阅读填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容，在文章后56—65小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。 注意：每个空格只填1个单词。并将答案填写在答题卡标号为56—65的横线上。 They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. With little more than a pencil, a rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 103, worked out the exact track that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history—making moonwalk, let it come back to Earth. Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson’s 33 years in NASA and for a period of ten years afterwards, almost no one knew her name. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, Mrs. Johnson showed great talent for numbers at an early age which made her ahead several grades in school. By 13, she went to the high school. At 18, she entered the college and graduated with highest grades in 1937. Mrs. Johnson was one of several hundred strictly educated, with strong ability yet largely unknown women who, well before the modern feminist movement(女权运动), worked as NASA mathematicians. But it was not only her sex that kept her long unimportant. For some years at midcentury, the black women were influenced by a double segregation(隔离): They were kept separate from the much large group of white women who in turn were segregated from the agency’s male mathematicians and engineers. Mrs. Johnson broke barriers(屏障) at NASA. In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of black women who served as mathematicians for the space agency. Their story was told in the 2016 Hollywood film Hidden Figures, which was nominated for three Oscars, including best picture. In 2017, NASA named a building after her. That year, the Washington Post described her as “the most high-profile of the computers”—“computers” being the term at first used to describe Mrs. Johnson and her workmates, much as “typewriters” were used in the 19th century to represent professional typists. She “helpe