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勤建学校高二年级上学期期末调研考试
英语试卷 2023.1
考试时间 120分钟 卷面分 120分
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第一节 阅读理解 (共15小题,每小题2.5分,共37.5分)
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There are many famous scientists in the world, some of whom are very young. Here are four hot young scientists working right now to change the world.
Rizia Bardhan
Rizia Bardhan is 29 and a post doctor at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Her research mainly deals with amazing possibilities of micro robots that can be used to cure diseases which are now untreatable. In an interview, she said that when she thought of science, she would think of major problems that she could help to solve.
Heather Knight
Heather Knight, the 28-year-old Chief Executive of the Marilyn Monrobot company, is performing new applications for robotics by casting her shows with robots. She considers humor to be one of the most important human features. Therefore, if she can teach humor to robots, they will be able to better connect with humans.
Imre Bartos
Imre Bartos is a 29-year-old Columbia University graduate student. As one of the young minds, he is remarkable enough to drive others crazy with envy. He studies everything from the formation of black holes to the physics of how mosquito eyes see the world. In the paper Hunting Black Holes with a Gas Cloud, he explains that a gas cloud meeting a black hole in its path will be partially eaten by the black hole. His task is to check the X-rays that are given off during the process.
Jeremy England
Jeremy England is a 36-year-old professor at MIT, a school that is known for its young genius. He is working right now on new ideas about the physics behind basic biology. He says that he wants to make sense of life at the molecular(分子) level.
1. What might be used to cure the untreatable disease?
A. Atoms. B. X-rays. C. Basic biology. D. Micro robots.
2. What’s Heather Knight’s aim?
A. To make new inventions. B. To teach humor to robots.
C. To make it easier to communicate. D. To make robots learn to show.
3. Whose stud