2018届高三英语总复习第一部分回归教材Unit1Greatscientists课时作业新人教版必修520171010111.docVIP

Unit 1 Great scientists Ⅰ.阅读理解 (2017·河南省鹤壁市高级中学周练) Edmund Halley was an English scientist who lived over 200 years ago. He studied the observations of comets (彗星) which other scientists had made. The orbit(轨道)of one particular comet was a very difficult mathematical problem. He could not figure it out. Neither could other scientists who dealt with such problems. However, Halley had a friend named Isaac Newton, who was a brilliant mathematician. Newton thought he had already worked out that problem, but he could not find the papers on which he had done it. He told Halley that the orbit of a co