[中学联盟]广东省茂名市第十七中学2015-2016学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题.docVIP

茂名市第十七中学2015-2016学年度第二学期期末考试 高一级 英语学科试卷 第一部分 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） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A,B,C,D项中选出最佳答案。 （A） Life is full of surprises and you never know how things will turn out. Sir John Gurdon is a good example of this. As a boy, he was told he was hopeless at science and finished bottom of his class. Now, aged 79, the very same Gurdon shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Japanese stem cell 干细胞 researcher Shinya Yamanaka. Like so many scientists, Gurdon shows us where the power of curiosity and perseverance 坚持不懈 can lead. At the age of 15 in 1948, Gurdon ranked last