Swedish master medical photographer Lennart Nilsson is a pioneer in medical photography．In association with researchers and with the help of advanced, specially designed equipment, he has documented the inside of man down to the level of a cell with his camera.
Born in Strängnäs, a satellite city of Stockholm, in 1922, Nilsson got his first camera from his father when he was 11 years old．From the early stage, he has been interested in looking at ants and taking photos of them.Throughout the years, he has devoted special attention to capturing the creation of a human being, from conception to birth.
In 2006 when his photo book Life was published in both Swedish and English, he was invited to give a lecture at the Stockholm bookstore．He vividly described to the public how he took the photos so that the development process of the embryo can be understood better．Finally when he was signing his name in the book, I asked him what made him so passionate about working on this, he stopped writing and thought for a second, “I think it is the respect for life,” Nilsson said.
Nilsson began his career as a photographic journalist in the middle of the 1940s and published a number of photo-essays in Swedish and foreign magazines, including "Polar Bear Hunting in Spitzbergen" (1947) and Midwife.
“When I went to the professor to take the embryo photo, I was looking around and then I saw something which was unbelievable, it was a tiny human embryo lies in a very special place, a 10-20 millimeter embryo with hands, arms and eyes, and I got a shock,” Nilsson said.
Nilsson began experimenting with new photographic techniques in the mid-1950s to report on the world of ants and life in the sea．His revealing macro-studies were published in his book on ants, Myror (1959), and in the Life in the Sea (1959), and in Close to Nature (1984)．In the 1960s special designed, very slim endoscopes (内窥镜))made it possible for him to photograph the blood vessels and the cavities (空洞) of the body with the necessary depth of field and, in 1970, he used a scanning electron microscope for the first time, he was also considered the pioneer for three dimension digital pictures of the body organs.
After his photographs of human embryo were published, he was encouraged to continue photographing the origins of human being.
Nilsson is very modest and sincere．At age of nearly 88, he is still cooperating with colleagues in Karolinska Institute where the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is selected every year.
“He can forget all the other things when he is working and he is still working diligently,” Mrs Nilsson told People’s Daily Online.
【小题1】Why does Nilsson want to document the creation of a human being?

The Union Army will be remembered as winning the Civil War. Yet Darwin’s Theory of Evolution may change as may Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Unlike history or basic mathematics, the world of science changes infinitely.

Science is unique because every day something new is discovered, often changing or challenging older theories. Science, from quarks and leptons to the galaxy clusters (星系) of our universe, holds immeasurable secrets that are exposed every day. With each new discovery the human race decodes a few more words of the ancient scroll that is the universe. Day by day, we decipher (译解) the code of the universe. Unlike history and literature which can be explored only so far, science is endless. Its beauty is that it represents the past, the present, and the future; there may always be something new to discover.

No matter how well humans understand the universe, science will still have a long future. This fact has been proved clearly to me by the diverse modifications (修正) I have witnessed in science in just my 17 years. In less than two decades, I have witnessed an enormous advance in technology as well as general knowledge of science. Surgeries that were thought complex at my birth are now routine, and computers once classified as advanced are out of date. Pluto, which during my childhood was considered a planet of our solar system, has been reclassified.

If such dramatic developments can occur in such a short time, who knows what the world will be like by the next century? This makes science distinctive; the realization that a more efficient technique to solve the world’s most thorny troubles may be just around the bend. Perhaps an efficient way will soon be discovered to kill certain cancer cells or get rid of HIV. Science is enthralling (迷人的) because the answers to these troubles that upset the world today exist and could be discovered at any moment.

1．According to the passage, the charm of science is that           .

       A．it can cure kinds of cancers and AIDS now

       B．it makes complex computer easy to use

       C．it develops endlessly and will find solutions sooner or later

       D．it helps human race decodes a few more ancient words

2．What can we infer from the second paragraph?

       A．Some theories or opinions that seem true in some time may be incomplete.

       B．Humans today have already understood the universe quite well.

       C．The author is an experienced scientist in the field of universe.

       D．Surgeries and computers stand for the advanced development of science.

3．The author quoted Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and Newton’s Three Laws of Motion because             .

       A．their theories have been out of date already

       B．their theories prove wrong today

       C．some basic theories maintain unchangeable

       D．science would change infinitely, some famous theories included

4．What will the future world be like in the author’s opinion?

       A．No thorny troubles will exist any longer.

       B．Fast developing science makes the future world beyond imagination.

       C．Diseases such as cancers and HIV will disappear.

       D．Science will develop as fast in next century as present.

5．The author writes the article mainly to           .

       A．describe the fascination of the developing science

       B．state how complex science is developing

       C．distinguish the new theories from the old ones

       D．imagine the convenient future life provided by science

The Union Army will be remembered as winning the Civil War. Yet Darwin’s Theory of Evolution may change as Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Unlike history or basic mathematics, the world of science changes infinitely.

Science is unique because every day something new is discovered, often changing or challenging older theories. Science, from quarks and leptons to the galaxy clusters（星系）of our universe, holds immeasurable secrets that are exposed every day. With each new discovery the human race decodes a few more words of the ancient scroll that is the universe. Day by day, we decipher（译解）the code of the universe. Unlike history and literature which can be explored only so far, science is endless. Its beauty is that it represents the past, the present, and the future; there may always be something new to discover.

No matter how well humans understand the universe, science will still have a long future. This fact has been proved clearly to me by the diverse modifications（修正）I have witnessed in science in just my 17 years. In less than two decades, I have witnessed an enormous advance in technology as well as general knowledge of science. Surgeries that were thought complex at my birth are now routine, and computers once classified as advanced are out of date. Pluto, which during my childhood was considered a planet of our solar system, has been reclassified.

If such dramatic developments can occur in such a short time, who knows what the world will be like by the next century? This makes science distinctive; the realization that a more efficient technique to solve the world’s most thorny troubles may be just around the bend. Perhaps an efficient way will soon be discovered to kill certain cancer cells or get rid of HIV. Science is enthralling（迷人的）because the answers to these troubles that upset the world today exist and could be discovered at any moment.

51．According to the passage, the charm of science is that           .

A．it can cure kinds of cancers and AIDS now

B．it makes complex computer easy to use

C．it develops endlessly and will find solutions sooner or later

D．it helps human race decodes a few more ancient words

52．What can we infer from the second paragraph?

A．Some theories or opinions that seem true in some time may be incomplete.

B．Humans today have already understood the universe quite well.

C．The author is an experienced scientist in the field of universe.

D．Surgeries and computers stand for the advanced development of science.

53．The author quoted Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and Newton’s Three Laws of Motion because             .

A．their theories have been out of date already

B．their theories prove wrong today

C．some basic theories maintain unchangeable

D．science would change infinitely, some famous theories included

54．What will the future world be like in the author’s opinion?

A．No thorny troubles will exist any longer.

B．Fast developing science makes the future world beyond imagination.

C．Diseases such as cancers and HIV will disappear.

D．Science will develop as fast in next century as present.

55．The author writes the article mainly to           .

A．describe the fascination of the developing science

B．state how complex science is developing

C．distinguish the new theories from the old ones

D．imagine the convenient future life provided by science

Never forget your school friends

June is always a sad time for Senior 3 students. After taking the big test, they leave to    1    their dreams in different    2   . It's a hard time when students    3    to say goodbye to carefree (无忧无虑的) high school days and close friends.

People always say that teenage friendships are the most precious. Kids are too young to understand    4    friendship while adults    5    to relate it to fame and wealth.

Things are    6    with high school best friends. We share each other's    7   . We discuss news from all walks of life and begin to    8    our values. We support each other on the journey to the biggest    9    in our lives. We also    10    success and failure. The seeds of friendship become deeply rooted.

Many of us don't realize this   11    we enter society. One of my friends, Yang Ping,   12    how strong the bond (联系) with high school friends can be. "It was my high school friend who helped me    13    the darkest days in my life," said the 27-year-old.

In 2001 Yang lost her job in Beijing. Yang's best friend was staying in a college dormitory and took her in. Each night the two girls squeezed (挤) into a narrow single bed, chatting and crying. "I'll never forget her care and encouragement, which    14    me out of the darkness," said Yang.

I   15   remember my last days in Senior 3. At the time, I   16    a 20-page message with my best friend, both of us hoping to keep the friendship   17    forever.

But we didn't realize we were already deep in each other's    18   . During the past 10 years, whenever I've needed help or wanted to pour out my   19   , she has always been there at the other end of a telephone line.

It is true that friends come and go. But never forget the ones who have been there for you. Take a closer look at those now around you, they could be the most precious treasure you discover in your entire    20   .

1.A. realize            B. create            C. perform           D. finish

2. A. directions        B. ways              C. means             D. relations

3. A. decide            B. volunteer         C. have              D. began

4. A. honest            B. correct           C. true              D. real

5. A. attempt           B. tend              C. plan              D. manage

6. A. similar           B. same              C. like              D. different

7. A. wealth            B. money             C. secrets           D. housework

8. A. weigh             B. make              C. measure           D. shape

9. A. challenge         B. trouble           C. question          D. problem

10. A. face             B. share             C. expect            D. stand

11. A. unless           B. after             C. until             D. but

12. A. experienced      B. understood        C. considered        D. thought

13. A. live through                          B. pull through     

C. get through                         D. look through

14. A. held             B. lifted            C. raised            D. supported

15. A. yet              B. even              C. still             D. already

16. A. changed          B. exchanged         C. turned            D. discussed

17. A. running          B. going             C. advancing         D. marching

18. A. head             B. brain             C. spirit            D. heart

19. A. unhappiness      B. happiness         C. disaster          D. joy

20. A. period           B. life              C. work             D. study