高考英语一轮复习 Unt 1 Great scientists单元检测卷 新人教版必修5.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 2 Unit 1 Great scientists Ⅰ.阅读理解 Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it cannot be detected by human senses. It can’t be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we can’t detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver. Similarly, we can’t sense radioactivity without a radiation detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other living things. At very high levels, radiation can kill an an