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Topic 2　Women of achievement (Book 4?Unit 1)Ⅰ.阅读理解A话题词数建议用时诺贝尔和平奖3127分钟Women Nobel Peace Prize laureates (获奖者) are fewer in number than men who have been awarded the Prize, even though it may have been a womans peace activism (行动主义) which inspired Alfred Nobel to create the award. In recent decades, the percentage of women among the winners has increased.1．Baroness Bertha von SuttnerA friend of Alfred Nobel, Baroness was a leader in the international peace movement in the 1890s, and she received support from Nobel for her Austrian Peace Society. When Nobel died, she bequeathed (遗赠) money for four prizes for scientific achievements, and one for peace. In 1905, she was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.2．Jane AddamsJane Addams, best known as the founder of Hull-House, a settlement house in Chicago, was active in peace efforts during World War Ⅰ with the International Congress of Women. Jane Addams also helped to found the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom. She was nominated (提名) numerous times, but the Prize went each time to others until 1931. She was, by that time, in poor health, and could not travel to accept the Prize.3．Mother TeresaBorn in Skopje, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in India and focused on serving the dying. She was skilled at publicizing her orders work and thus financing the expansion of its services. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in bringing help to suffering humanity.4．Wangari MaathaiWangari Maathai founded the Green Belt movement in Kenya in 1977, which has planted more than 10 million trees to prevent soil erosion (流失) and provide firewood for cooking fires. Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be named a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, honored for her contribution to sustainable development and peace.语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。文章向我们介绍了四位女性诺贝尔和平奖得主。1．What can we know from the first paragraph?A．Women contributed less to the world than men.B．Women were not as active as men