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综合过关检测 (八 ) (时间： 100 分钟 满分： 120 分 ) 第 Ⅰ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，从每题所给的四个选项 (A 、B 、C 和 D) 中，选出最佳选项。 A (2016 威海检测· )Barbara McClintock was one of the most important scientists of the 20th 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 the master ’sdegree in 1925. Two years later, she finished all her requirements for the doctorate degree. 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 economic 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 Rhoades, invited McClintock to spend the summer of 1941 working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It is a research center on Long I