UNIT 2 训练1 Topic Talk(A) (分值：39分) Ⅰ.单词拼写(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分) 1．The educationalist’s great success cannot depart from his (坚持不懈的) effort. 2．My niece is d to give up socialising online and to study hard. 3．Whatever difficulty the (宇航员) meets，he doesn’t get depressed. 4．The teacher always highlights the importance of an o attitude. 5．It is incredible that the 4-year-old boy can be so (有原则的) as to reject junk food. 6．My mother is c to her duty and never is she absent from work without reasons. 7．Marty，an (有抱负的) young man，decided to be a scientist in the future. 8．We all know he didn’t perform well because of the i in his ankle，but he felt ashamed of losing the gold medal. 9．Only through c with other teammates can we win the match. 10．These old (员工) greeted me in a rude manner，which hurt me emotionally. Ⅱ.单句语法填空(共6小题；每小题1.5分，满分9分) 1．We are still optimistic the future，whatever the result of the match. 2．We are all struck by the astronaut’s (commit) and ambition. 3．Although my teacher explains it constantly，I still can’t make sense such problems. 4．His career as a professional football player brings him many (injure)． 5．I would be (appreciate) if you could accept my invitation. 6．Many celebrities devoted themselves to helping people in the disaster area with (enthusiastic)． Ⅲ.阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20分) A One of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Danish scientist Morten Meldal.When describing his career，Meldal said he started out as an engineer but changed to chemistry because he “wanted to understand the world”． Meldal’s experience may come as a surprise to students.They might believe they have to center their work and school lives in one field to be successful.But a study from professors at Michigan State University shows that is not always the case. Michele Root-Bernstein and Robert Root-Bernstein published their study in the Creativity Research Journal.They said that a large number of Nobel Prize winners can be described as “polymaths”，or “Renaissance”． The writers looked at past Nobel Prize winners and their students.They decided that when students of winners go on to win Nobel Prizes，some of what they learned from their teachers is how to live a life with many interests.They are，in a way，learning how to be creative. Having many interests，the Root-Bernsteins wrote，permits scientists to look for creative ways to solve problems.In fact，one important part of science is not discovering answers，but recognizing problems that need to be solved. The prize winners，the Root-Bernsteins said，transfer skills，techniques and materials from one field to another. They said Alexis Carrel won his Nobel Prize in medicine in 1912 by using techniques he learned from the clothing business.He realized that people who used thread to make and fix clothing had a skill that could be used in operations to put new organs into people ... ...
