2023年河北省石家庄市高考英语二模试卷（含解析，无听力题）

2023年河北省石家庄市高考英语二模试卷 一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共37.5分） A The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 60 times between 1901 and 2022.These women have made outstanding contributions to the worlds of medicine，science，literature and so on.Here are four of them. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award：Nobel Prize in Chemistry Year：1964 Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist whose interest in research began when，as a child，she received a chemistry book containing experiments with crystals.She studied at Oxford University and developed protein crystallography，which advanced the development of X-rays.This earned her the Nobel Prize. Gertrude B.Elion Award：Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Year：1988 Gertrude Elion won the Nobel Prize for her discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.Elion had watched her grandfather die of cancer，so she decided to fight the disease throughout her life.Elion，together with George Hitchings，with whom she shared the award，created a system for drug production that relies heavily on biochemistry. Toni Morrison Award：Nobel Prize in Literature Year：1993 Toni Morrison，whose book "Beloved" earned her the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award，was the first Black woman to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.Born in Ohio，Morrison was a writer whose works are mostly about life in the Black community.She taught writing and served as an honorary professor at Princeton University. Esther Duflo Award：Nobel Prize in Economics Year：2019 Esther Duflo shared her prize with her research colleagues Michael Kremer and Abhijit Banerjee，who is her husband.Duflo has spent much of her career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology，where she earned her doctorate degree in 1999.Duflo and her partners were awarded the Nobel Prize for their approach to fighting poverty around the world. 1. What won Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin the Nobel Prize？ _____ A. Her book about crystals. B. Her contribution to X-ray development. C. Her research on medicine. D. Her discovery of a new protein crystal. 2. What do Toni Morrison's books mainly focus on？ _____ A. Educational issues. B. Community service. C. Writing techniques. D. Black American's life. 3. What do Gertrude B.Elion and Esther Duflo have in common？ _____ A. They won the Nobel Prize in the same year. B. They devoted themselves to fighting diseases. C. They shared the Nobel Prize together with others. D. Their life experiences committed them to their fields. B Every holiday season，Patricia Gallagher fills her car with stuffed animals and drives around Philadelphia.She gives them not to kids but to seniors. Patricia's holiday tradition started in 2009. "I just got this idea to call two nursing homes at random and ask if I could come and read It was the Night Before Christmas，" she said.She brought some of her kids' stuffed animals for the seniors to hold while she read. "But when I went to gather them and take them back to go to the next nursi ... ...