Unit 1 People of Achievement 单元综合检测 课件（共81张）+练习（含解析）

单元综合检测（一）　PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT （满分：120分　时间：100分钟） 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 Besides Marie Curie， these women devoted their lives to science and made significant advances. Caroline Herschel （1750－1848） Herschel was ill-treated by her parents in Hanover until her older brother， William， brought her to England in 1772 to run his household in Bath.Later， her brother switched careers from singing and went into astronomy.Caroline followed.In addition to assisting her brother in his observations and in the building of telescopes， Caroline became a brilliant astronomer in her own right.She was the first woman to discover a comet （she discovered eight in total） and the first to have her work published by the Royal Society. Barbara McClintock （1902－1992） While studying botany at Cornell University in the 1920s， Barbara McClintock got her first taste of genetics and was hooked.She continued her research at universities in California， Missouri and Germany before finding a permanent home at Cold Spring Harbor in New York.It was there that， after observing the patterns of coloration of corn kernels over generations of plants， she determined that genes could move within and between chromosomes.McClintock was awarded a Lasker Prize in 1981 and Nobel Prize in 1983. Maria Goeppert Mayer （1906－1972） A German immigrant to the US who studied at Johns Hopkins during the Great Depression， Maria Goeppert Mayer， born in 1906， continued her studies even when no university would employ her and went on to become a chemical physicist.Her most famous contribution to modern physics is discovering the nuclear shell of the atomic nucleus， for which she won the Nobel Prize in 1963.She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize， after Marie Curie. 1.Who might Caroline Herschel be most grateful to for her achievements in astronomy？（　　） A.Her parents. B.Her brother. C.The Royal Society. D.Astronomers of her time. 2.How did Barbara McClintock draw the final conclusion？（　　） A.By tasting corn kernels. B.By making rough guesses. C.By making careful observations. D.By researching at universities. 3.Who was the first woman Nobel Prize winner？（　　） A.Caroline Herschel. B.Barbara McClintock. C.Maria Goeppert Mayer. D.Marie Curie. B Although the piano keys come in black and white， the music it produces is full of color.Chinese pianist Tian Jiaxin explores creative performances and crossover cooperations with traditional Chinese music， with the hope of bringing the music of the East to the Western world through the piano， which is considered the king of Western musical instruments. Tian attended regular school instead of studying at a music school in her childhood.This enabled her to absorb China’s rich culture and understand the bigger picture later in her pursuit of a career as a professional pianist.“There’s s ... ...