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第二部分Week Seventeen核心素养三文化品格@ Week Seventeen 核心素养三 文化品格 Monday ◆答案P218 ■阅读理解 坚持研究的Andrea Ghez O关键词：Andrea @难度：4 @体裁：说明文 @词数：332 @正确率：/4 建议时间：7 Standing in my office 25 years ago was an person had the idea for the research.One person unknown,newly rising astronomer with a half- had the chutzpah(无所顾忌)to propose it and smile on her face.She had come with a demand one person had the determination and focus to that my team change our tested software to make it happen,undiscouraged by all who said make one of our most important and in-demand it was a waste of time.That person is Andrea scientific instruments do something it had never Ghez,winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in been designed for,andrisk breaking it Physics. down.All to carry out an experiment that was 1.What did the author think of Andrea basicallya waste of time and couldn't be Ghez's request at first? done-to prove that a massive black hole hid at A.It's demanding.B.It's interesting. the center of our Milky Way. C.It's unacceptable.D.It's meaningless. My initial“no way”gradually gave way 2.What do we know about Andrea Ghez's in the face of her cheerful but firm research from Paragraph 2? determination.It was my first encounter with a A.It takes decades of efforts. force of nature,Andrea Ghez,one of three B.It deals with power of nature. winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. C.It's a purely individual project. That determination and the willingness to take D.It's about measurement of a hole. calculated risks has always characterized 3.Which of the following best describes Andrea.For 25 years she has focused almost Andrea Ghez's work in Hawai'i? only on Sagittarius A-the name of our own A.Dangerous. B.Pleasant. local super massive black hole.And Andrea is C.Challenging. D.Fruitless. one of the great pioneers in this search without 4.What can we learn from Andrea Ghez's question. success? Andrea did her work at the W.M.Keck A.It is rewarding to cooperate. Observatory's twin telescopes on Maunakea, B.The