题目内容
The U. S.declares it has the best medical technology in the world,but quite a lot of Americans have no __________to health care service.
A.devotion | B.entrance | C.access | D.introduction |
C
解析试题分析:考察名词辨析。A努力;B入口处;C权力,机会;D介绍;句意:美国宣布他拥有世界上最好的治疗技术,但是很多的美国人却无权享受到这样的健康服务。固定词组have access to…有权进入,可以使用;故C正确。
考点:考察名词辨析
点评:名词的词义辨析要放在上下文的语境中进行,要注意上下文的语义的串联以及逻辑关系的推理,特别要注意一些名词的固定搭配以及名词的深层次的含义的区别。
October 31, 2009, California
Tsien Hsue-shen, PhD'39, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died on October 31, He was 98.
Tsien, born in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, graduated from the National Qinghua University in 1934 and in August of 1935 he left China to study at the Massachusetts Institute Technology. In 1936 he went to the California Institute of Technology to commence graduate studies .Tsien obtained his doctor degree in 1939 and would remain at Caltech for 20 years, becoming the Goddard Professor and establishing a reputation as one of the leading rocket scientists in the United States.
In 1943, Tsien and two others in the Caltech rocketry group drafted the first document to use the name Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During the Second World War, he was amongst the other scientists participated the "Manhattan Project" .After World War II he served as a consultant to the United States Army Air Force. During this time, Conlonel Tsien worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X--20Dyna-Soar which would later be the inspiration for the Space Shuttle. In1945 Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Jiang Baili--one of the Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai--shen's leading military strategists. But in 1950, the Chinese-born scientist was accused of harboring Communist sympathies and stripped of his security clearance.
In September 1955 he was permitted to leave for China, where Tsien resumed his research, founded the Institute of Mechanics, and went on to become the father of China's missile program, a trusted member of the government and Party's inner circle, and the nation's most honored scientist, Tsien retired in 1991 and has maintained a low public profile in Beijing, China. The PRC government launched its manned space program in 1992 and used Tsien's research as the basis for the Long March rocket which successfully launched the Shenzhou V mission in October of 2003.The elderly Tsien was able to watch China's first manned space mission on television from his hospital bed.
In his late years, since the 1980s, Tsien devoted himself to spirituality research, and advocated scientific investigation of traditional Chinese medicine, Qigong and "special human body functions".
【小题1】The underlined word "commence" in this passage probably means ____
A.make up | B.get | C.begin | D.promise |
A.45 | B.28 | C.24 | D.34 |
a. his later life b. return to China c. career in the U.S.A d. his early life and education
A.a-b-c-d | B.d-c-b-a | C.d-b-c-a | D.c-b-d-a |
A.Tsien Hsue--shen got a doctor's degree in 1939. |
B.Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shen. |
C.Tsien Hsue-shen has made a contribution to the Space Shuttle. |
D.Tsien Hsue-shen was interested in traditional Chinese medicine, qigong and "special human body functions" in his later life. |
Roslyn Hing School on long Island recently started a pilot program using iPads in some classrooms.
A growing number of schools across the U.S.are multimedia,history through gamse and math with step-by -step animation(动画)of complex problems.
As part of a pilot program,Roslyn High School handed out 47 iPads on Dec.20,2010 to the students and teachers in two humanities(人文学科)classes. The school district hopes to provide iPads eventually to all 1,100 of its students.
The iPads are to be used in class and at hom during the school year to replace texbooks,allow students to correspond with teachers and tum in papers and homework tasks,and preserve a rocord of student work in digital files.
“It allows us to extend the classes beyond these four walls.”said larry Reiff,an English teacher at Roslyn who now posts all his course mateials online.
But educators are still divided over whether practices to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.
“Thre is very little evidence that kids learn more,faster of better by using these machines,”said Larry Cuban,a retried professor of eduction at Staford University.“IPads are excellent tools to attract kids,but then the fieshness wears off and you eget int hard-core problems of teaching and learning.”
But school leaders say the iPad is not just a cool new toy but rather a powerful and multifunctional tool with a number of applications,including thousands with educational uses.
“If there isn't an application that does something I need ,there will be sooner or later,”said Mr.Reiff,who said he now used an application that includes all of Shakespare's plays.
1.The program of using iPads in class is .
A.widely accepted by most schools in the United States |
B.only an experimental one carried out in some schools |
C.a compulsory one carried out by the U.S government |
D.encouraged and organized by the iPad company |
2.The underlined part “these four walls”in paragraph 5 refers to .
A.school dormitory |
B.school campus |
C.teacher's office |
D.school classroom |
3.We can use iPads to do the following at school except .
A.replace the school textbooks |
B.keep digital record of homework |
C.judge the teachers'teaching |
D.communicate with teachers |
4.The school leaders tink highly of the iPad mainly because it is .
A.cool and interesting |
B.powerful and helpful |
C.multifunctional and expensive |
D.attractive and vivid |
5.We can infer from the passage that .
A.most old teachers are against the pilot program |
B.students have achieved a lot after using iPads |
C.teaching will become less important with the help of ipads |
D.iPads will be used is more and more schools in the US |