2019-2020学年天津一中高三(上)第三次月考英语试卷.pdf

2019-2020 学年天津一中高三（上）第三次月考英语试卷 一、阅读理解（本大题共 20 小题，共 50.0 分） A Do you know the four respectable women below ？ Let's have a look ． Maria Sibylla Merian Until the 1670s ， scientists thought that caterpillars （毛虫） and butterflies were two totally different creatures ． Thanks to Maria Sibylla Merian ， we know the truth about these winged insects． She began collecting ， studying and drawing them when she was young ． She was one of the few naturalists of her time who actually studied live insects ． It was through her study of caterpillars that she discovered the truth about their life cycles ． Lucy Stone If you know a woman who keeps her own family name after marriage ， you should know that it's a tradition started by Lucy Stone ． She initially changed her name ， but decided to change it back a year later ． She held the belief that "a wife should no more take her husband's name than he should take hers" ． She became the first American married woman to keep her own family name for her entire life ． Both she and her husband also fought the popular idea that husbands had legal control over their wives ． Nellie Bly Nellie Bly ， a famous journalist ， was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania ． When a Pittsburgh Dispatch journalist wrote an article saying that working women were unacceptable ， Bly wrote an argument that got her a job offer from the newspaper． What made her well-known was that she spent some time living in a mental institution to expose the conditions the patients faced ． In 1889 ， she set out to travel around the world ． And she made it ． Alice Coachman Davis Alice Coachman Davis was the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal ． She grew up in Georgia， where females were not allowed to join sports teams ． So she trained on her own．Finally ，Coachman competed in the 1948 Olympic Games in London ， where she not only