3.Tu Youyou,an 84-year-old female(女性)scientist,became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in science on Oct 5.Before that,she ever won the 2011Lasker Award for finding out artemisinin (Qinghaosu),which saved millions of lives.She was grateful(感激的) for the Lasker prize,but said,"It is just a scientist'duty.I will go on fighting for the health of all humans."
Tu kept her work in the 1960s and 1970s.In that age,Malaria (疟疾) could took away people's health.Scientists all over the world had already tried over 240 000times t but failed.Tu Youyou,a member of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Beijing,began to study Chinese herbs.
Before 2011,people didn't know Tu very much.Many friends played jokes with her"the Professor of Three None's":no degree(学位),no study experience abroad,not a member of any Chinese national colleges.But she is hard-working.She read a lot of traditional Chinese medicine books and did a lot of researches on the disease.
In February,2012,Tu was named National Outstanding Females (One of the Ten) Tu is now a model of Chinese medical workers.

21.Artemisinin is used toA.
A.make medicine     B.make food      C.get award     D.do the experiment
22.In the 1960s and 1970sD could find ways to stop the Malaria.
A.Scientists in China               B.only Tu Youyou
B.Scientists all over the world     D.no scientist
23.Tu Youyou became very famousD.
A.in the 1960s      B.in 1970     C.before 2011      D.after 2012.
2.A report brought back by most visitors to the US is how friendly,polite,and helpful most Americans were to them.To be fair,this observation is also frequently made of Canada and Canadians,and should best be considered North American.There are,of course,exceptions.Small-minded officials,rude waiters,and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US.Yet American's friendliness and helpfulness is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment.
For a long period of time and in many parts of the country,a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence.Dullness and loneliness were common problems of the families who generally lived distant from one another.Strangers and travelers were welcome sources of distraction,and brought news of the outside world.
The tough realities of the border also shaped this tradition of hospitality.Someone traveling alone,if hungry,injured,or ill,often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest settler agent.It was not a matter of choice for the traveler or only a charitable impulse (冲动) on the part of the settlers.It reflected the hardship of daily life:if you didn't take in the stranger and take care of him,there was no one else who would.And someday,remember,you might be in the same situation.
Today there are many charitable organizations which specialize in helping the exhausted traveler.Yet,the old tradition of hospitality to strangers is still very strong in the US,especially in the smaller cities and towns away from the busy tourist routes."I was just traveling through,got talking with this American,and pretty soon he invite d me home for dinner,amazing."Such observations reported by visitors to the US are not uncommon,but are not always understood properly.The casual friendliness of many Americans should be understood neither as superficial(表面的)nor as artificial(虚伪的),but as the result of a historically developed cultural tradition.
As is true of any developed society,in America a complex set of cultural signals and customs is the basis of all social inter-relationships.And,of course,speaking a language does not necessarily mean that someone understands social and cultural patterns.Visitors who fail to"translate"cultural meanings properly often draw wrong conclusions.For example when an American uses the word"friend",the cultural meanings of the word may be quite different from those it has in the visitor's language and culture.It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to tell polite customs from individual interest.Yet,being friendly is a virtue (美德) that many Americans value highly and expect from both neighbors and strangers.

29.In the eyes of visitors from the outside world,D.
A.rude taxi drivers are hardly seen in the US
B.small-minded officials deserve a serious comment
C.Canadians are not so friendly as their neighbors
D.most Americans are ready to offer help
30.We can know from the last paragraph thatA.
A.culture has an influence over social inter-relationship
B.polite customs and individual interest are inter-related
C.various virtues shows themselves only among friends
D.social inter-relationships equal the complex set of cultural customs
31.Families who lived far from one another used to entertain strangersC.
A.to improve their hard life       
B.in view of their long-distance travel
C.to add some taste to their own daily life    
D.out of a charitable impulse
32.The tradition of hospitality to strangersB.
A.tends to be superficial and artificial
B.is generally well kept up in the United States
C.is always understood properly          
D.has something to do with the busy tourist route.
 0  139549  139557  139563  139567  139573  139575  139579  139585  139587  139593  139599  139603  139605  139609  139615  139617  139623  139627  139629  139633  139635  139639  139641  139643  139644  139645  139647  139648  139649  139651  139653  139657  139659  139663  139665  139669  139675  139677  139683  139687  139689  139693  139699  139705  139707  139713  139717  139719  139725  139729  139735  139743  151629 

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网