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练案[31] 选择性必修第三册 UNIT 5 POEMS
Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A
(2022江苏省七市二模)
My Favourite Books
———Posted by Catherine Chungꎬa great writer
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
This collection contains several math stories. The
one I recommend is Division by Zeroꎬ about Reneeꎬa
brilliant mathematician. To her great despairꎬ she ends
up proving that mathematics is inconsistent and is able
to prove that any two numbers are equal. A beautifulꎬ
thought ̄provoking(发人深省的) story about beliefꎬ
understandingꎬ and faith.
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōsko Ogawa
Its about a woman who comes to work for a once ̄
great mathematician. Due to a brain injuryꎬ he has only
80 minutes of short ̄term memory available to him
before he forgets everything. It is filled with beautiful
mathꎬ simply and clearly described alongside finely
drawn relationships between the characters.
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
Kovalevskaya was a 19th ̄century mathematician
at a time when women were not allowed in most of
Europe to attend university. She married a man who
promised to take her to Germany to study. She made
major contributions to the field and became the first
woman in Russia to obtain a doctorate in mathematics.
The Ore Miners Wife by Karl Iagnemma
It is about a miner who thinks hes discovered the
proof of the problem:construct a squareꎬ equal in area
to a given circle. His wifeꎬ not knowing what has
suddenly taken his attention and his timeꎬ fears he is
being unfaithful. Its a moving exploration of the joys of
entering a problem wholly and the desire and
impossibility of truly knowing those we love.
1. What does“I”refer to in Paragraph 1?
A. Catherine Chung. B. Ted Chiang.
C. Alice Munro. D. Yōko Ogawa.
2. Which book is about a pioneering Russian woman
mathematician?
A. Stories of Your Life and Others.
B. The Housekeeper and the Professor.
C. Too Much Happiness.
D. The Ore Miners Wife.
3. What do the listed books have in common?
A. They tell love stories.
B. They involve