Unit 9 Human Biology 单元限时小卷-【高中必刷题】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册同步课件（北师大版2019）

05 单元限时小卷 建议用时：53分钟 1 [山西部分学校2022高二联考] Born in New York in 1918, scientist Gertrude B.Elion had an impressive career, during which she developed medicines to treat many major diseases. Elion spent her early youth in Manhattan. She attended senior high school and had, in her words, an unbelievable thirst for knowledge. Motivated by the death of her grandfather, who died of cancer, Elion entered Hunter College at the age of 15 and graduated in chemistry at the age of 19. She had difficulty finding employment after graduation because many laboratories refused to hire women chemists. She found a part-time job as a lab assistant and went back to school at New York University. Elion worked as a high school teacher for a few years while finishing work on her master’s degree. The start of World War Ⅱ created more opportunities for women. At the age of 26, Elion was able to get a job at Burroughs Wellcome & Company, where she began a 40-year partnership with Dr George H.Hitchings. Her thirst for knowledge impressed Dr Hitchings, and he permitted her to take on more responsibility. 刷阅读理解 2 Elion and Hitchings set out on a course of creating medicines by studying the chemical composition of diseased cells. Rather than relying on old trial-and-error methods, they used the differences in biochemistry between normal human cells and pathogens （病原体） to design medicines. In all, Elion developed 45 patent medicines and was awarded 23 honorary degrees. In 1988, Elion received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with George H. Hitchings and Sir James W. Black. She received other awards for her work, including the National Medal of Science in 1991, and that same year, she became the first woman to be inducted （使正式加入） into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 1997, she was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award. 刷阅读理解 3 【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了格特鲁德·B.埃利恩的求学经历和其令人印象深刻的职业生涯，以及她最终取得的成就。 1.What can we say about Elion as a high school student?(