the Rachel Carson Prize to women who have made great contributions to the field of environmental protection. In 1980, 16 years after her death, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour in America. 1. What happened to Rachel Carson in 1962?
A. She started to write books. B. She gave up working as a biologist. C. Her book The Sea Around Us sold well. D. Her book Silent Spring made her famous.
2. The book Silent Spring is important to America's environmental protection
because________． A. it describes a silent spring B. it topped the book sales lists
C. it changed how America thought about nature D. it includes all Carson's research achievements 3. The underlined word “It” in Paragraph 3 means________.
A. the book Silent Spring B. the way America thought C. the US Bureau of Fisheries
D. America's Environmental Protection Agency
4. Why was Rachel Carson awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
A. She published the book Silent Spring.
B. She did a lot of researches for the U．S. Bureau of Fisheries. C. She donated much money to the Rachel Carson Book Prize. D. She made great contributions to the environmental protection.
Passage 11 （2016怀化改编）
屠呦呦
Tu Youyou, William Campbell and Satoshi Omura are three scientists from different countries. They have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine.
On December 30, 1930, Tu Youyou was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. From 1951 to 1955, she studied in Peking University Medical School. Later Tu was trained for two and a half years in traditional Chinese medicine.
Sweet wormwood（青蒿）is a common plant in China. But it has the power to cure the deadly disease called malaria（疟疾）. Tu started her malaria research in China in the 1960s and 1970s. She discovered “Qing-hao-su” in 1971. It is a great health improvement（改进） for people in developing countries in south Asia, Africa, and South America.
Tu got several medicine awards（奖项）in the past. On October 5, 2015, she was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology（生理学） or Medicine. She is the first Chinese scientist to win a Nobel Prize.
1. ________ won the 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine.
A. Tu Youyou C. Satoshi Omura
B. William Campbell D. All of above
2. The underlined word “cure” in the passage means ________in Chinese.
A.治疗
B. 治理
C.诊断
D.处理
3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Tu Youyou is 81 years old now.
B. “Qing-hao-su” is useful for people's health.
C. Tu studied in Peking University for two and a half years. D. Tu is the second Chinese who has won the Nobel Prize. 4. What is the best title for this passage?
A. Tu Youyou's daily life B. The Nobel Prize
C. Chinese pride—Tu Youyou D. Medical improvement
Passage 12（2016东营）
丽贝卡·夏洛克
We have heard about people who have special memories. Recently there has been a report about a woman from Australia who can remember almost every detail（细节） of all the events in her daily life.
Rebecca Sharrock, 25, is one of just 80 people worldwide who have been indentified（确定） as having Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory （HSAM，超级自传体记忆症）. It means she can remember every small event—which most people would forget within（在……以内）days—as if it had happened just minutes ago.
“I remember my mum putting me in the driver's seat of a car and taking a picture of me when I was 12 days old，”she said. “That's my earliest memory. I remember every day since then. I can't tell all the dates exactly because I was too young to understand calendars, but I remember what I did that very day, what the weather was like and so on.”
Rebecca can also re-experience taste. If she's eating something that she doesn't like, she thinks about Black Forest cake, her favorite food, and the memory will be so strong that she can nearly “taste” it.
However, sometimes her memories prove（证明）to be painful. Because they're not just events that she remembers. “When I relive（再体验）memories, the feelings return, too，” Rebecca said.“For example, I remember falling over when I was three
at my grandparents' house and hurting my left knee. Talking about it now, I feel painful in my left knee.”
“At night, I have to sleep with the radio/recorder and a soft light on，”she added. “If it's too dark or quiet, my mind would be filled with all these memories and I can't sleep.”
1. Which is NOT TRUE about Rebecca?
A. She has special memories. B. She is from Australia. C. She is 25 years old.
D. She can remember every detail of all the events.
2. What happened to Rebecca on the day when she was 3 years old?
A. She was identified as having HSAM.
B. Her mother put her in a car and took a picture of her. C. She started to understand calendars.
D. She hurt her left knee at her grandparents' house. 3. Whenever she is reliving her memories, ________．
A. she is happy
B. she experiences the feelings again C. she feels pain in her knees D. she can taste her favorite food
4. From the passage, we can infer（推断）that________．
A. HSAM can do her good, but it also brings her pain B. she feels painful if she recalls her experiences
C. she can fall asleep while she is re-experiencing memories D. HSAM can greatly improve her living conditions
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