2015-2016学年高一英语练习册：综合能力测评1(人教版必修4).docVIP

综合能力测评(一) Unit 1 本套试卷分为第Ⅰ卷(选择题)和第Ⅱ卷(非选择题)两部分。第Ⅰ卷60分，第Ⅱ卷40分，共100分。考试时间90分钟。 第Ⅰ卷　(选择题　共60分) Ⅰ.阅读理解(共两节；满分40分) 第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) A Barbara McClintock was one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. She made important discoveries about genes 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 masters degree in 1925. Two years later, she finished all her requirements for a doctorate. 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 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 Morton Rhoades, invited McClintock to spend the summer of 1941 working at the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory. It is a research centre on Long Island, near New York City. McClintock started in a temporary job with the genetics department. A short time later, she accepted a permanent position with 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 have had an effect on everything from genetic engineering to cancer research. McClintock won the