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Period Three Lesson 2 Top Secrets of Success
●Ⅰ 单词拼写(每小题1分,共4分)
1.The astronaut signed a (合同) with the space agency yesterday morning.
2.The dry weather over the past year had cut agricultural (产量).
3.The team was determined to win the (冠军称号) and trained tirelessly for months.
4.To maintain fitness, the athlete runs a (最少量) of five kilometres every day.
●Ⅱ 单句填空(每小题1.5分,共9分)
1.We invite (influence) people in different fields to share their thoughts with us each week.
2.The employee ‘s (devote) to his work was evident, as he was always the first to arrive at the office.
3.The (motivate) speech by the professor gave them the confidence to face the challenges in their future careers .
4.Due to (limit) resources, the host had to make some tough decisions when organising the event.
5.The astronaut in training must learn to ignore any (distract) during the intense training sessions.
6.There is (convince) evidence of a link between balanced diets and good health.
●Ⅲ 短语填空(每小题2分,共10分)
1.After Ms Li quit teaching, she all her time (致力于) taking care of her aging parents.
2.You must invest much time in what you (对……热爱).
3. (至少), we need to raise the funds required to continue our community programmes and support those in need.
4.I think I (与……相比有巨大的优势) other applicants as I am expert at dealing with senior citizens.
5.I’m (相信) your extraordinary ability for that job, so just go and apply for it.
●Ⅳ 句型训练(每小题3分,共6分)
1.Not only , but also I have strong affection for them, which enables me to provide visitors with more professional service. (倒装)
我不仅熟悉我们城市的历史和传统,而且对它们有着深厚的感情,这使我能够为游客提供更专业的服务。
2.We must by tomorrow morning. (get sth done)
我们必须在明天早上以前把所有的工作都做完。
●Ⅴ 阅读理解(每小题2.5分,共20分)
A
Disappointment is a natural human emotion that occurs after a failure. For our young children, this failure can look like not getting the toy they wanted, not being invited to a classmate’s birthday party or losing their favourite animal.
It is essential for children’s mental health, well-being and overall development that they experience how to deal with disappointment well. But this can be difficult for parents to deal with, particularly around holidays, which are about gift-giving and expectations.
North American culture often mistakenly links love and happiness with material goods such as toys; the Santa story promises magical wish satisfaction. This can cause conflict for parents when children do not get the “right” gift.
On holidays, there’s social and personal pressure to provide happiness and joy for children through material objects, which can be confused with providing the necessities. For parents who do not have the resources to provide the perfect or desired gift, this can cause additional stress, shame, and fear around disappointment. Parents may feel as though they have let down their child and that they have impacted the child’s experience or memory of their “special day”.
This is especially true if the child has difficulty with or is learning to manage emotions and expresses disappointment through outbursts. These behaviours can affect parents deeply, often leading them to feel badly about themselves or that the child does not love them.
Changing our focus to giving rather than receiving can help our children develop and appreciate the strength in gratitude. Research has linked gratitude to significant health and wellness benefits such as improving self-esteem, improving sleep and developing empathy.
The other thing to know is that although disappointment feels awful, it is a part of life and is actually a positive and healthy emotion that’s central to children’s emotional, cognitive and social development throughout their lives.
( )1.Why is it difficult for parents to handle disappointment on Christmas?
A.Children are easy to have tantrums or the sulks.
B.Children often expect too much of their parents.
C.It is the custom to give gifts or show expectations.
D.It is connected with children’s overall development.
( )2.What is the author’s attitude towards linking love and happiness with material goods?
A.Concerned. B.Unclear.
C.Interested. D.Supportive.
( )3.What does the author feel about changing our focus to giving rather than receiving?
A.It helps children realize the benefits of being grateful.
B.It can help children’s academic development.
C.It can avoid disappointment in life.
D.It is a necessary part of one’s life.
( )4.What is the best title for the text?
A.What are the rights to give to your children on Christmas?
B.What can Christmas teach kids about disappointment?
C.How can we meet our children’s expectations best?
D.What harm does disappointment do to most children?
B
The world was astonished on Wednesday when half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry went to US scientist David Baker for “computational protein design” and the other half to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper in London for “protein structure prediction”.
There is no doubt that they have made amazing breakthroughs. The Nobel Prize Committee remarked that “they cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures”. What attracted global attention is the fact that both Hassabis and Jumper come from Google DeepMind, which specializes in artificial intelligence, and they created an AI model that fundamentally changes the way to study a protein’s structure.
It’s notable that the AI model Hassabis and Jumper developed is central to understanding the structure of proteins, in which amino acids (氨基酸) are linked together in long chains and then fold in a manner that plays a decisive role in its functioning. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to predict proteins’ structures from their amino acid sequences (序列) so as to gain a deeper understanding of their functions, for which they even launched Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction, which conducts community experiments in this regard.
For long the accuracy rate of predictions was just about 40 percent, far below the required 90 percent. It was not until Hassabis and Jumper developed the AI model AlphaFold that the rate reached 60 percent, which has since got better with AlphaFold2.
By understanding the three-dimensional (三维的) structure of a protein, scientists can infer its role and how it interacts with other molecules (分子), helping study diseases and develop new drugs. Besides, predicting proteins’ structures helps in better comprehending the origins of life, which is linked to the Nobel Prize in physiology that went to researches in mRNA.
All these date back to Hassabis and Jumper’s AlphaFold model developed decades ago. Clearly, AI has helped mankind by making endless computations a cakewalk, in the process quickening studies of proteins’ structures. The scientists who developed it deserve the prize as more scientists will now be encouraged to study it.
( )5.What astonished the world when Hassabis and Jumper won the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
A.Their not coming from a chemistry-focused company.
B.Their consistent cooperation in the AI field.
C.Their attempts at solving some AI problems.
D.Their contributions to computational protein design.
( )6.What does the underlined word “cracked” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.Doubted. B.Lost.
C.Defended. D.Broke.
( )7.With the AI model developed by Hassabis and Jumper, scientists can .
A.study diseases and develop new drugs
B.conduct community experiments in the lab
C.predict proteins’ structures more precisely
D.have more time to better comprehend the origins of life
( )8.What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A.AI models won’t help make endless computations a cakewalk.
B.Scientists have understood the three-dimensional structure of a protein.
C.The structure of a protein interacts with other molecules in an active way.
D.Human beings’ health will be improved with scientists’ continuous efforts.
●Ⅵ 语法填空(每小题1.5分,共15分)
Whenever you talk about famous persons of science through the ages, 1. is most likely that you will come across a handful of names of male scientists. Nevertheless, once there was a female in the Qing Dynasty 2. (catch) international attention because of her devotion 3. mathematics and astronomy. Her name is Wang Zhenyi, 4. was born during the reign (统治时期) of Qianlong more than two centuries ago.
With the encouragement of her grandfather and father, Wang Zhenyi became 5. eager reader at an early age and loved reading so much that she frequently forgot 6. (eat) or sleep. While Wang Zhenyi was skilled at literature and poetry, she also displayed exceptional 7. (curious) towards science. She was especially attracted by the subject of astronomy, mathematics and cylindrical (圆柱体的) calculations. During her short lifetime of less than three decades, she wrote productively, 8. (particular) on astronomy and mathematics. The First Volume of the Pavilion of Virtuous Demeanor, which is still 9. (access) today, collects some of her notable works on astronomy and mathematics.
Wang Zhenyi’s remarkable achievements 10. (win) international praise and the International Astronomical Union named one of the craters of Venus (金星陨石坑) after her in 1994. The science journal Nature also featured Wang Zhenyi as one of the outstanding female scientists, encouraging young ladies to engage in research in science.
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Period Three Lesson 2 Top Secrets of Success
Ⅰ.1.contract 2.production 3.championship 4.minimum
Ⅱ.1.influential 2.devotion 3.motivating 4.limited
5.distraction 6.convincing
Ⅲ.1.devoted; to 2.are passionate about 3.At a minimum
4.have/gain a big advantage over 5.convinced of
Ⅳ.1.am I familiar with the history and traditions of our city
2.get all work finished
Ⅴ.A
【文章大意】 这是一篇议论文。本文主要论述了孩子们在圣诞节期间的失望中能够学到东西。应让孩子们认识到失望是人生的一部分。这对于孩子们一生中情感、认知以及社会交往的发展都十分重要。
1.C 细节理解题。根据第二段中“But this can be difficult for parents to deal with, particularly around holidays, which are about gift-giving and expectations.”可知,对于父母来说,在圣诞节处理失望情绪是很困难的,因为赠送礼物或表示期待是一种习俗。故选C。
2.A 推理判断题。根据第三段中“This can cause conflict for parents when children do not get the ‘right’ gift.”以及第四段中“For parents who do not have the resources to provide the perfect or desired gift, this can cause additional stress, shame, and fear around disappointment.”可推知,作者对于把爱和幸福与物质联系起来的态度是非常担心的。故选A。
3.A 细节理解题。根据第六段“Changing our focus to giving rather than receiving can help our children develop and appreciate the strength in gratitude. Research has linked gratitude to significant health and wellness benefits such as improving self-esteem, improving sleep and developing empathy.”可知,作者认为把我们的注意力转移到给予而不是接受可以帮助孩子们意识到感恩的好处。故选A。
4.B 主旨大意题。根据文章大意以及最后一段“The other thing to know is that although disappointment feels awful, it is a part of life and is actually a positive and healthy emotion that’s central to children’s emotional, cognitive and social development throughout their lives.”可知,本文主要论述了孩子们在圣诞节期间能从失望中学到的东西。B项(圣诞节能教会孩子们关于失望的什么?)是本文的最佳标题。故选B。
B
【文章大意】 本文是一篇新闻报道。文章主要报道了诺贝尔化学奖得主在蛋白质结构预测领域的突破,尤其是AlphaFold模型的贡献。
5.A 细节理解题。根据第一段“The world was astonished on Wednesday when half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry went to US scientist David Baker for ‘computational protein design’ and the other half to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper in London for ‘protein structure prediction’.”(周三,当一半的诺贝尔化学奖授予了美国科学家David Baker,以表彰其在“计算蛋白质设计”方面的成就,另一半则授予了伦敦的Demis Hassabis和John M. Jumper,以表彰他们在“蛋白质结构预测”方面的成就时,世界为之震惊。)和第二段中的“What attracted global attention is the fact that both Hassabis and Jumper come from Google DeepMind, which specializes in artificial intelligence, and they created an AI model that fundamentally changes the way to study a protein’s structure.”(引起全球关注的是,Hassabis和Jumper均来自专注于人工智能领域的谷歌旗下的DeepMind公司,他们创造的人工智能模型从根本上改变了研究蛋白质结构的方式。)可知,Hassabis和Jumper都来自人工智能领域的谷歌旗下的DeepMind公司,不是来自一家专注于化学研究的公司,这一事实引起了全球的关注。故选A。
6.D 词义猜测题。根据第二段中的“There is no doubt that they have made amazing breakthroughs. The Nobel Prize Committee remarked that ‘they cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures’.”(毫无疑问,他们取得了惊人的突破。诺贝尔奖委员会评论说,“他们破解了蛋白质惊人结构的密码”。)可知,Hassabis和Jumper取得了惊人的突破,破解了蛋白质结构的密码。cracked意为“破解”。故选D。
7.C 细节理解题。根据第四段“For long the accuracy rate of predictions was just about 40 percent, far below the required 90 percent. It was not until Hassabis and Jumper developed the AI model AlphaFold that the rate reached 60 percent, which has since got better with AlphaFold2.”(长期以来,预测的准确率仅约为40%,远低于所需的90%。直到Hassabis和Jumper开发出人工智能模型AlphaFold,准确率才达到了60%,随着AlphaFold2的推出,这一数字进一步提升。)可知,借助Hassabis和Jumper开发的AI模型,科学家们可以更精确地预测蛋白质的结构。故选C。
8.D 推理判断题。根据第五段中的“By understanding the three-dimensional (三维的) structure of a protein, scientists can infer its role and how it interacts with other molecules (分子), helping study diseases and develop new drugs.”(通过了解蛋白质的三维结构,科学家可以推断出它的作用以及它如何与其他分子相互作用,从而帮助研究疾病和开发新药。)和最后一段中“Clearly, AI has helped mankind by making endless computations a cakewalk, in the process quickening studies of proteins’ structures.”(显然,人工智能帮助了人类,使无穷无尽的计算变得轻而易举,在这个过程中加快了对蛋白质结构的研究。)可推知,随着科学家的不断努力,人类的健康将会得到改善。故选D。
Ⅵ.【文章大意】 本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要讲述了清代女科学家王贞仪因对数学和天文学的贡献而赢得国际赞誉的事迹。
1.it 考查代词。本空用代词it作形式主语,真正的主语是that引导的主语从句。故填it。
2.catching 考查非谓语动词。catch sb’s attention意为“引起某人的注意”。本句谓语为was,此处为非谓语动词,作后置定语,修饰a female,a female与catch之间是逻辑上的主谓关系,故用现在分词。故填catching。
3.to 考查介词。固定搭配devotion to…意为“对……的奉献”,to是介词。故填to。
4.who 考查定语从句。空处引导非限制性定语从句,先行词是Wang Zhenyi,指人,关系词代替先行词在从句中作主语,故用关系代词who引导该从句。故填who。
5.an 考查冠词。此处泛指“一个渴望读书的人”,且eager的发音以元音音素开头,应用不定冠词an。故填an。
6.to eat 考查非谓语动词。固定搭配forget to do sth意为“忘记要做某事”,本空用eat的不定式。故填to eat。
7.curiosity 考查名词。空处应用名词curiosity“好奇心”,作displayed的宾语。故填curiosity。
8.particularly 考查副词。空处用副词particularly“尤其”,作状语,修饰介词短语on astronomy and mathematics。故填particularly。
9.accessible 考查形容词。空处用形容词accessible“可见到的”,作表语。故填accessible。
10.won 考查动词时态。根据时间状语in 1994可知,空处描述的是过去发生的事情,故时态用一般过去时,谓语用win的过去式。故填won。
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