题目内容
“No woman is ever too slim or too rich,” goes a popular adage. It may be wrong. Though the fat persons definitely run the great of hypertension, heart attacks and other ills, the very thin are not necessarily any healthier. Studying data collected during a 24 - year study, National Institutes of Health Epidemiologist Paul Sorlie and his colleagues were surprised by similar high mortality rates for the underweight. The finding could not be explained by such factors as the amount of smoking or undiagnosed illness. These results, Sorlie writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “raise questions as to the health benefits from weight reduction in persons of average or near average weight.”
1. An adage is a ________.
A．song
B．wrong observation
C．poem
D．saying based on common observation
2. Hypertension is ________.
A．abnormally low blood pressure
B．abnormally high blood pressure
C．irregular blood pressure
D．normal blood pressure
3. An epidemiologist is ________.
A．a specialist in the control of a disease in a population
B．a specialist in the actions and diseases of the heart
C．a specialist in the study of man
D．a specialist in the study of man’s ways of life
4. A person who is obese is ________.
A．suffering from high blood pressure
B．highly overweight
C．underweight
D．normal weight
5. A mortality rate refers to
A．the percent of overweight persons compared to the percent of underweight persons
B．the degree of obese people who suffer heart attack
C．the proportion of deaths in a given population
D．a comparison within a given population of the obese to the thin- bodied
提示：
1．显然，adage指的正是前面一句话，这只是一句俗语。 2．肥胖应该引起的是高血压 3．Epidemiologist流行病学家 4．Obese肥胖的，肥大的 5．Mortality rate残废率
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As a young girl, Margaret “Mattie” Knight never played with dolls, preferring to make toys for her brothers instead. In 1849, Knight went to work in a cotton factory where she witnessed a “shuttle,” a device that carries thread back and forth across a textile loom（纺布机）, fly off the machine when the thread broke, striking and killing a young boy about her own age.
The 12-year-old Knight developed a safety mechanism that made it impossible for a shuttle to leave the loom. The design was so effective, soon virtually every new power loom carried her invention, saving countless workers from injury or death. Being so young, she didn’t bother to patent the device, so she never received payment.
Knight wouldn’t make the same mistake later in life when she invented a machine that could produce flat-bottomed paper bags. Knight had built a small wooden model in her home, but she needed a metal version to show it could hold up to the stress of mass production. So she hired Charles Annan to make the full-sized machine for her, only to have him try to claim the patent for himself. When Knight sued（起诉）, Annan’s argument was that the design had to be his, because no woman could possibly understand the complex mechanics. Knight proved him wrong when she brought back her wooden prototype and explained how every part worked. She won the case in 1871, making her the second woman to hold an American patent. Over a hundred years later, her design is still used as the basis for many modern flat-bottom bag machines.
But that wasn’t the last the world heard of Mattie Knight. During her lifetime, she made about 90 inventions and received 26 patents, becoming one of the most productive female inventors of the 19th century.
【小题1】We can learn from Paragraph 1 that ________.
| A．Knight behaved like boys | B．Knight had an unhappy childhood |
| C．Knight did a poor job of making toys | D．Knight liked inventing things as a child |
| A．It is still used today. | B．It brought her great profit. |
| C．It was made when he was 20. | D．It reduced injuries at textile plants. |
| A．stole the wooden model for the machine she invented. |
| B．failed to make the full-sized machine for her |
| C．tried to patent her invention for himself |
| D．kept the metal version for himself |
| A．Mattie Knight’s fight for her patent | B．A great woman in the 19th century |
| C．“The female Edison”, Mattie Knight | D．Great inventions, great woman |
As a young girl, Margaret “Mattie” Knight never played with dolls, preferring to make toys for her brothers instead. In 1849, Knight went to work in a cotton factory where she witnessed a “shuttle,” a device that carries thread back and forth across a textile loom（纺布机）, fly off the machine when the thread broke, striking and killing a young boy about her own age.
The 12-year-old Knight developed a safety mechanism that made it impossible for a shuttle to leave the loom. The design was so effective, soon virtually every new power loom carried her invention, saving countless workers from injury or death. Being so young, she didn’t bother to patent the device, so she never received payment.
Knight wouldn’t make the same mistake later in life when she invented a machine that could produce flat-bottomed paper bags. Knight had built a small wooden model in her home, but she needed a metal version to show it could hold up to the stress of mass production. So she hired Charles Annan to make the full-sized machine for her, only to have him try to claim the patent for himself. When Knight sued（起诉）, Annan’s argument was that the design had to be his, because no woman could possibly understand the complex mechanics. Knight proved him wrong when she brought back her wooden prototype and explained how every part worked. She won the case in 1871, making her the second woman to hold an American patent. Over a hundred years later, her design is still used as the basis for many modern flat-bottom bag machines.
But that wasn’t the last the world heard of Mattie Knight. During her lifetime, she made about 90 inventions and received 26 patents, becoming one of the most productive female inventors of the 19th century.
1.We can learn from Paragraph 1 that ________.
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A．Knight behaved like boys |
B．Knight had an unhappy childhood |
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C．Knight did a poor job of making toys |
D．Knight liked inventing things as a child |
2.What do we know about Knight’s first invention?
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A．It is still used today. |
B．It brought her great profit. |
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C．It was made when he was 20. |
D．It reduced injuries at textile plants. |
3.Knight sued Charles Annan because he _______.
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A．stole the wooden model for the machine she invented. |
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B．failed to make the full-sized machine for her |
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C．tried to patent her invention for himself |
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D．kept the metal version for himself |
4.What would be the best title for the text?
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A．Mattie Knight’s fight for her patent |
B．A great woman in the 19th century |
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C．“The female Edison”, Mattie Knight |
D．Great inventions, great woman |
As late as 1800, women’s only place was in the home. The idea of woman in the business world was unthinkable. Men were certain that no woman could do a good job outside her home. This was such a widely accepted idea that when the well-known Bronte sisters began writing books in 1864, they had to sign their books with men’s names instead.
Teaching was the first profession open to women soon after 1800. But even that was not an easy profession for women to enter because most schools and colleges were open only to men. Oberlin College in Ohio was the first college in America to accept women.
Hospital nursing became respectable work for women only after Nightingale became famous. Seeing that she was not only a nurse but also a rich and well-educated woman, people began to believe it was possible for women to nurse the sick and still be “ladies”. Miss Nightingale opened England’s first training school for nurse in 1860.
The invention of the typewriter in 1867 helped to bring women out of the home and into the business world. By 1900, thousands of women were working at real jobs in schools, hospitals and offices in both England and America. Some women even managed to become doctors or lawyers. The idea that women could work in the business world had been accepted.
1. Why couldn’t women become teachers easily? Because___________
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A．the first profession open to them was writing. |
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B．most schools and colleges were open only to men. |
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C．they wanted to be nurses instead. |
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D．they had to work in the business world. |
2.The article is mainly about __________.
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A．women are in the business world |
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B．the famous Bronte sisters |
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C．schools and colleges in America |
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D．rights for American women |
3.Which fact does the article lead you to believe?
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A．The Bronte sisters thought that they were men. |
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B．England’s first training school for nurses was in Ohio. |
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C．There are more men than women in professional jobs. |
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D．Women find it necessary to work harder than before. |