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广东省广州市华师附中番禺学校九年级英语中考一模试卷
Barbara McClintock was one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. She made important discoveries about genes（基因）and chromosomes（染色体）.
Barbara McClintock was born in 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut. Her family moved to the Brooklyn area of New York City in 1908. Barbara was an active child with interests in sports and music. She also developed an interest in science.
She studied science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Barbara was among a small number of undergraduate students to receive training in genetics in 1921. Years later, she noted that few college students wanted to study genetics.
Barbara McClintock decided to study botany, the scientific study of plants, at Cornell University. She completed her undergraduate studies in 1923. McClintock decided to continue her education at Cornell. She completed a master's degree in 1925. Two years later, she finished all her requirements for a doctorate degree.
McClintock stayed at Cornell after she completed her education. She taught students botany. The 1930s was not a good time to be a young scientist in the United States. The country was in the middle of the great economic Depression. Millions of Americans were unemployed. Male scientists were offered jobs. But female geneticists were not much in demand.
An old friend from Cornell, Marcus Rhoades, invited McClintock to spend the summer of 1941 working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It is a research center on Long Island, near New York City. McClintock started a temporary（临时的）job with the genetics department. A short time later, she accepted a permanent（永久的）position in the laboratory. This gave her the freedom to continue her research without having to teach or repeatedly ask for financial aid.
By the 1970s, her discoveries had had an effect on everything from genetic engineering to cancer research. McClintock won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of the ability of genes to change positions on chromosomes. She was the first American woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize.
In warm sunshine, a group of students are playing the accordion ( 手风琴). The music sounds like nature itself. They are students at Shuangshiping Middle School in Shegang town in Hunan Province. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
68-year-old Guo used to play the accordion at the Hunan Provincial Opera and Dance Drama Theater. After retiring ( 退休) in 2 0 1 4 , he told a friend that he wanted to become a volunteer teacher. "Not all the children have a gift for playing an instrument. But music can influence their life and study greatly, " he said. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Then Guo visited the school and discovered that most of the students there had never learned to play the accordion. " The infrastructure ( 基础设施) at the school was poor. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} I wanted to do something meaningful after retirement, " Guo recalled. In 2014 , he spent 30 , 000 yuan on 20 accordions. With another 10 bought by his friend and 10 more donated by a company, Guo drove for two hours to give free lessons, twice a month from his home in Changsha to the school 122 kilometers away.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} He hopes that they can teach students when he is not available. Now, the students also learn to play other instruments, such as the hulusi and guzheng. "Every time I come to teach them, I enjoy myself and I feel young again," he said.
A. Guo also gives lessons to teachers there. B. And their music teacher is Guo Weixiang. C. But it was exactly the place that I was looking for. D. His friend told him about Shuangshiping Middle School. E. It took Guo eight years to teach 1 100 students to learn to play an instrument. |
Next term Jim will go to America to study. His favourite American writer is Mark Twain. He wants to know how his great books were written.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Tom likes playing basketball very much and he plays it very well. He is also a fan of NBA. He wants to know some famous basketball players in the history of NBA.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Lily is a lover of light music. She always listens to it. She thinks light music can make her relax. Her favourite musician is Mozart. She wants to know more information about him.{#blank#}3{#/blank#} Tony has a great interest in space science. He is going to be an astronaut when he grows up. He wants to know some information about the astronauts who have walked on the moon.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Lucy shows an interest in American history. She knows there were many great people in American history. She wants to know about some American inventors best, because she thinks some of their inventions have changed the world.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} | A. Mark Twain is one of the greatest American writers. His books are about American places, everyday language that Americans speak, memorable American characters. Most of all, they are full of humour (幽默) . B. Mozart was born in 1756. He wrote much music. He was only 35 when he died, yet he composed (创作) more than 600 pieces of music. Many music lovers consider him as one of the greatest musicians in the world. C. Louis Armstrong was a US jazz trumpeter (小号乎) and singer. In 1922, he joined King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. In the following years he began recording under his own name. He became someone more than a jazz musician and he was an international star. D. American inventor Thomas Edison changed the way that people lived when he invented the first practical light bulb in the late 1800s. The light bulb was just one of his many inventions. E. Donald John Trump was born in New York City on14th June, 1946. He was an American businessman and the 45th president of the United States. He is one of the richest people in the world. E. Abdul Jabbar is a US basketball player. He helped his teams to get for six NBA titles. By the time he retired in 1989, he had created a record of scoring 38, 387. He was chosen as Most Valuable Player for six times. G. Neil Armstrong was a US astronaut. He became a pilot at the age of 16. He joined the space programme in 1962 with the second group of astronauts. On 20th July, 1969, he took the Apollo 11 into the space and became the first person to step onto the moon. |
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Everyone likes festivals, because they mean a break from work. However, for some people, they mean {#blank#}1{#/blank#} work. Danny is a doctor in the hospital. He {#blank#}2{#/blank#} many meals with his family because he is often called to the hospital suddenly. He is thankful for his {#blank#}3{#/blank#} support. He says,"I am just one of millions of {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in the world. "There are many people devoting(贡献) themselves to making our life a lot {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. We should thank all of them.
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