河南省周口市川汇区周口恒大中学2023-2024学年高三下学期4月期中考试英语试题（含解析）

周口恒大中学2023-2024学年高三下学期4月期中考试 英语试题 考试时间：120分钟；满分：120分 注意事项： 1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息 2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上 第I卷（选择题） 第一部分阅读(共两节，满分50分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分，满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、 B、C D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Madame Marie Curie is famous for having won two Nobel Prizes, but many other women have also been awarded the prize. Here are their stories. Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset is one of the three Norwegian authors to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Undset received the Prize in 1928, for her powerful description of life during the Middle Ages in Scandinavia. In her lifetime, she wrote two huge novels set against the background of Norway in the 13th century, the 3-volume Kristine Lavransdatter, and the 4-volume Olav Audunss. Gerty Theresa Cori Gerty and her husband, Carl Cori, moved to the United States in 1922, where the two medical doctors worked together at Roswell Park Cancer Center Institute in New York, hoping to find the cure for diabetes. In 1947, Gerty, Carl and the Argentine doctor Bernardo were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, making Gerty the first woman to hold the honor. Maria Goeppert-Mayer Born in 1906 in Germany, Maria Goeppert-Mayer moved to the US with her husband Joseph Edward Mayer, a chemist, in 1930. While in the US, Goeppert-Mayer developed the nuclear shell model, for which she shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner. She was the first woman to receive the award in 60 years. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM Dorothy Hodgkin showed a love for science as a child and at age 18, she began studying chemistry at a women-only Oxford college. She entered her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she first took an interest in X-ray crystallography and began studying the structure of proteins. In 1934, she moved back to Oxford, where she was appointed the university’s first research chemistry fellow. Her work on mapping vitamin B12 earned her the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1964. 1．What is Sigrid Unset well-known for in history A．Her discoveries. B．Her invention. C．Her books. D．Her social work 2．How old was Goeppert-Mayer when she won the Nobel Prize A．30 B．57 C．60 D．63 3．Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry according to the passage A．Sigrid Undset B．Gerty Theresa Cori C．Maria GoepperMayer D．Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM B On November 18, 2020, state workers who were tracking sheep were flying over the Utah desert in a helicopter. They noticed an object that is called monolith later, and landed nearby to see what it was. It was a shiny, three-sided metal column about 3.7 meters tall and planted solidly in the middle of the desert. Bret Hutchings, who flew the helicopter, said, “I have to admit, that's been about the strangest thing that I've come across out there in all the years of flying.” The shape of the monolith and its ... ...