2015届高三英语一轮单元检测：必修5 Unit1 Great scientists.docVIP

Ⅰ.阅读理 (2014·安徽省高三皖西四校联考)When Alfred Nobel created the prizes that bear his name to a dead man. It is a complex story，one that could not have been foreseen when Nobel，the Swedish inventor，died in 1896.But it all traces back to his will，written at a time when international prizes were an original idea. Nobel did not say why he wanted to reward scientists who “made the most important discovery” during the previous year.One can guess that he wanted to reward present-day innovation and not to give tombstone awards to Galileo，Hippocrates，and other scientists from centuries past. But will and scienc