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牛津版(深圳•广州)2019-2020学年初中英语九年级上册期中自主检测
Grace Murray was born on December 9, 1906 in New York City. In 1928 she finished her education in Vassar College in Maths and Physics. Since 1931, she had been teaching at Vassar and continued her study at Yale University, where she achieved a lot in Maths in 1934.
In 1930, Grace Murray married Vincent Foster Hopper. They were happy together for 15 years. She taught at Vassar College until 1943, when she joined the United States Navy(海军)to help her country during World War Ⅱ.Then she was given a job at the Bureau of Ships Computation Project at Harvard University, where she worked on the Mark series of computers.
In 1945, she began to do research in Applied(应用)Physics at Harvard's Computation Laboratory. In 1949 she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and worked with people working in it. Years later, she returned to the Navy. She retired in 1971 but continued teaching for the computer development. Brewster Academy, a school in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, the United States, gave its computer lab to her for free in 1985, calling it the Grace Murray Hopper Centre for Computer Learning. She had spent her childhood summer at a local family in Wolfeboro. She passed away in her sleep in 1992. Since her death, her workmate Elenor Briggs has been going on with her work.
Grace Murray was a great woman and a leader in the computer development. Her work helped improve the use of computer languages. She practised her words" Dare and Do" in her lifetime.
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The Everybody Experiment(实验), written by Lisa Moore Ramée, is about an 11- year- old girl named Kylie. Kylie has just {#blank#}1{#/blank#} sixth grade. She's very shy. She cries a lot, which makes her worry that she's not strong enough for middle school. She's also {#blank#}2{#/blank#} that her feelings might embarrass her friends.
Kylie loves science, so she asks herself:" What would a scientist do to solve this problem?" She comes up with the idea for an experiment. She calls it the Everybody Experiment. She decides to act stronger {#blank#}3{#/blank#} copying the actions of her friends Nikila, Mara, and Naomi. Every day, she writes down what happens with her experiment and then review s the results. After a {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, Kylie realizes she's just as cool as her friends— she just {#blank#}5{#/blank#} her feelings differently. She gains the confidence to be herself.
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Sarah is 7 years old and she is new at school. After the first class bell rings,she walks out of the classroom. She sees some children talking and laughing in the school {#blank#}1{#/blank#} .
Emily introduces(介绍) Sarah to the other children. There is a boy named Jack,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}girl named Lily and a boy named Tom. They have {#blank#}3{#/blank#} talking about themselves. Sarah knows much about her new friends. Emily loves to grow vegetables like {#blank#}4{#/blank#} . Tom likes to read books about {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Sarah is happy to make new friends.
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