Albert Einstein (1879~1955) was one of the greatest and most original scientific thinkers of all time.

  Born of Jewish parents at Ulm in Germany, he completed his education in Switzerland and got his Ph. D at the University of Zurich. He went to live in the United States in 1933 because of the rise of Nazism(纳粹)in Germany and Hitler’s persecution(迫害)of the Jews.

  In 1905, while still at Zurich, he published his Special Theory of Relativity, which was based on things everyone may have noticed. If two trains are standing alongside each other and one train starts to move, a person sitting in the train may wonder whether his own train is moving or the other is moving, and before he finds out what is happening, he can see that one train is moving relatively to the other. From this and also from other more complicated facts, Einstein came to the conclusion that all motion is relative and that there are really no such things as absolute(绝对)motion. Some of the other conclusions he drew are that nothing can go faster than light, and that if something such as a ruler was moving faster and faster it would seem to get shorter and shorter as its speed was near the speed of light. By 1915, Einstein had made known his General Theory of Relativity. He also improved on Newton’s theory of gravity. Most of his theories have been tested and found to be true though some may sound strange. For his important work he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics.

(1) In 1933, Einstein wanted to live in the United States because ________.

A.he loved the USA.more than his own country

B.he had got some friends there with whom he could work together

C.he wanted to live quietly in the USA

D.he could no longer work in Germany when Hitler came into power

(2) Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity when he was ________.

A.in the United States

B.in Ulm, Germany after he got his Ph.D

C.still in Switzerland at the age of twenty-six

D.still at the University of Zurich at the age of thirty-six

(3) One of the conclusions drawn by Einstein is that ________.

A.places go faster than trains and buses

B.people couldn’t run as fast as vehicles

C.light gobs the fastest of all the things

D.two trains can go in different directions

(4) Einstein added that if something such as a ruler was moving it would seem to get shorter and shorter ________.

A.because the ruler itself was short

B.when it was moving faster and faster

C.because we can’t see it clearly

D.because the ruler was broken into pieces

(5) Einstein was world-famous for his ________.

A.Special Theory of Relativity

B.General Theory of Relativity

C.improving on Newton’s theory of gravity

D.all of the above

  Albert Einstein (1879~1955) was one of the greatest and most original scientific thinkers of all time.

  Born of Jewish parents at Ulm in Germany, he completed his education in Switzerland and got his Ph. D at the University of Zurich. He went to live in the United States in 1933 because of the rise of Nazism(纳粹)in Germany and Hitler’s persecution(迫害)of the Jews.

  In 1905, while still at Zurich, he published his Special Theory of Relativity, which was based on things everyone may have noticed. If two trains are standing alongside each other and one train starts to move, a person sitting in the train may wonder whether his own train is moving or the other is moving, and before he finds out what is happening, he can see that one train is moving relatively to the other. From this and also from other more complicated facts, Einstein came to the conclusion that all motion is relative and that there are really no such things as absolute(绝对)motion. Some of the other conclusions he drew are that nothing can go faster than light, and that if something such as a ruler was moving faster and faster it would seem to get shorter and shorter as its speed was near the speed of light. By 1915, Einstein had made known his General Theory of Relativity. He also improved on Newton’s theory of gravity. Most of his theories have been tested and found to be true though some may sound strange. For his important work he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics.

(1) In 1933, Einstein wanted to live in the United States because ________.

A.he loved the USA.more than his own country

B.he had got some friends there with whom he could work together

C.he wanted to live quietly in the USA

D.he could no longer work in Germany when Hitler came into power

(2) Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity when he was ________.

A.in the United States

B.in Ulm, Germany after he got his Ph.D

C.still in Switzerland at the age of twenty-six

D.still at the University of Zurich at the age of thirty-six

(3) One of the conclusions drawn by Einstein is that ________.

A.places go faster than trains and buses

B.people couldn’t run as fast as vehicles

C.light gobs the fastest of all the things

D.two trains can go in different directions

(4) Einstein added that if something such as a ruler was moving it would seem to get shorter and shorter ________.

A.because the ruler itself was short

B.when it was moving faster and faster

C.because we can’t see it clearly

D.because the ruler was broken into pieces

(5) Einstein was world-famous for his ________.

A.Special Theory of Relativity

B.General Theory of Relativity

C.improving on Newton’s theory of gravity

D.all of the above


Ⅳ.阅读理解(30分)
He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. He was black. He died in his thirties, but he became world-famous during that short time. He grew up in the southeastern part of the United States. He studied at Morehouse College, where he met many outstanding men whose ideas he found important and exciting. There he read the writings of Thoreau, which gave him many ideas about freedom.
  After he finished studying in Morehouse, he went on to study at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Boston University. At Boston University, he met his wife, Corretta. In 1954, after he got his Ph. D. degree (哲学博士学位), he became a minister (牧师) of a small church in the South. Then he became the leader of the black people, who were poor and powerless. He gave speeches and led parades. For his ideas and actions, he was in prison for a short time.
  Many years later, in Washington D.C. he spoke to a crowd of 250,000 people. He told them "I have a dream". That speech is still famous today. In 1964 he won the Nobel Peace Prize. His work was not finished when he died on April 4. 1968. Who was he? He was Martin Luther King Jr..
46. Where did Martin Luther King Jr. get the ideas of freedom?
  A. In the University of Pennsylvania.      B. In Harvard University.
  C. In Morehouse College.               D. In Boston University.
47. Why was Martin Luther King Jr. in prison?
A. Because he was a minister of a small church.
  B. Because he was black and world-famous.
  C. Because he gave a speech called “I have a dream”.
  D. Because he often gave talks in public and organized the parades .
48. How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when he died?
  A. Twenty-five years old.      B. Thirty-five years old.
  C. Thirty-seven years old.     D. Thirty-nine years old.
49. How is Martin Luther King’s speech “I have a dream” ?
  A. It is so famous that people today still remember it.
  B. It was such a famous speech that he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
  C. It was famous only before he died.
  D. It didn’t become famous until he died.

Deception (骗术)is something that people do all the time ,and it plays an important role in military (军事的)strategy. Now some researchers are trying to figure out how to get robots to do it, by looking at the behavior of squirrels and birds.
At Georgia Tech, a team led by Ronald Arkin , a professor at the School of interactive Computing, studied the literature on squirrels hiding their acorns (橡果).Squirrels will hide their food m a certain place, but when they see other squirrels trying to steal from them, they attempt to fool the thieves by running to a fake location.
Ronald Arkin and his Ph. D. student Jaeeun Shim used that as a model for robot behavior. They programmed the robot into tricking a “predator (捕食者)” machine by doing what εi squirrel does: showing the enemy a false location for an important resource.
The team also looked at how other animals in this case,a species of bird called Arabian babbler~ drive off predators. A babbler will make an alarm call when they see a predator and other babblers will join the bird and make more calls. They then surround the predator, all the while flapping (拍打)wings and making noises. The babblers don’t ever actually fight the animal they want to drive off; they just make enough noises and flaps around enough so that it seems that attacking a babbler isn’t worth it
They found that the deception works when the group reaches a certain size—essentially, when enough birds arrive to convince the enemy that it’s best to back off . Davis modeled that behavior in software using a military scene and found that it worked even if the group didn’t have the firepower to confront the enemy directly.
The military is interested in this because a robot that can fool an opponent is a valuable tool. It could lead an enemy down a fake trail or make itself look more dangerous than it actually is.
【小题1】Why does the military want to take advantage of squirrels’trick?

A.It can reduce the use of firepower to confront the enemy.
B.It can fool the enemy into believing it is more dangerous.
C.It can lead the enemy in a wrong direction to avoid losing resources.
D.It can scare the enemy away who wants to destroy the acorns.
【小题2】Which of the following is NOT the way Arabian babblers drive off predators?
A.One bird makes an alarm call and other birds will join it
B.They fight the enemy bravely face to face.
C.They make noises and flaps around the predator.
D.They force the predator aware that it isn't worthwhile to attack.
【小题3】What is the main idea of the passage?
A.Animals' behaviors are researched to be applied to the study of military robots.
B.Robots, fooling tricks are applied to the study of animals’behaviors.
C.Birds and squirrels are the animals that are good at deception.
D.Researchers are interested m animals’military-related behaviors.

Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8th, 1942 in Oxford, England. His parents’ house was in North London, but during the Second World War Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans. At eleven Stephen went to St. Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father’s old college. Stephen wanted to do math, although his father would have preferred medicine. Math was not available at University College, so he did physics instead. 

Stephen then went on to Cambridge to do research in Cosmology (宇宙论). After gaining his Ph.D. (哲学博士)he became first a Research Fellow, and later on a Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. After leaving the Institute of Astronomy in 1973, Stephen came to the Department of Applied Math and Theoretical Physics (理论物理), and since 1979 has held the post of Lucasian Professor of math.

Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which rule the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. These results show it was necessary to unify(统一)General Relativity with Quantum Theory (量子论). One result of such a unification that he discovered was that black holes should not be completely black, but should give off radiation and disappear in the end.

59. Which of the following is NOT suitable for describing Stephen Hawking?

A. He once studied at the same college that his father studied at.

B. At one time he did research in Cosmology in Oxford. 

C. He preferred math to medicine at college.

D. He contributed to the unification of General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory.

60. The underlined word “available” in the first paragraph probably means “________”.

A. able to be had              B. allowed to study   

C. easy to understand           D. limited to learn

61. Why did Stephen Hawking’s parents move to Oxford from North London?

A. Because they liked it better than North London.

B. Because there was a world-famous university there.

C. Because they were tired of living in North London.

D. Because it was safer to give birth to a baby in Oxford.

62. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Einstein and Stephen Hawking

B. Big Bang, a great theory 

C. Stephen Hawking, a great British scientist

D. The unification of two theories

 

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