Unit1 Warming Up Reading 课后基础练习 人教版高中英语选择性必修第四册.docVIP

第PAGE1页（共NUMPAGES3页） Unit1 Warming Up Reading 一、单句语法填空 1．The teenager from the United States was widely________(respect) for what she had done. 2．__________(inspire) by her example，many young people are determined to work as astronauts. 3．Many young people went to the center for happiness and__________(entertain)． 4．The woman scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for those great__________(achieve) made by her. 5．At that time，Lin Qiaozhi was one of the most famous medical__________(special) in China. 6．It is generally believed that there is a__________(connect) between smoking and lung cancer. 7．International Committee of the Red Cross is one of the biggest international__________ (organize) in the world. 8．The little girl was praised by her teacher for her good__________(behave)． 9. His laziness makes it impossible for him ____________ (achieve) his goal. 10．The old man entered the room__________(support) by his grandson. 二、阅读理解 Women have been making scientific discoveries since ancient times.Twelve women have won the Nobel Prize for Science，one of the highest honors in the world.Some women scientists never married，some worked with their husbands，and others raised large families.It has been difficult for women to be successful scientists. In the early 1800s in England，Mary Anning became one of the first women recognized for her discoveries about the ancient history of the earth.Mary and her father collected fossils (化石) in their village on the south coast of Great Britain.Fossils are parts of plants or animals that have been saved in rocks for millions of years. When she was only twelve years old，Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons (骨架) of several animals that no longer existed on the earth.She didn’t become famous for her discoveries at that time because she often sold her fossils to get money to support her family. In 1891，a young Polish woman named Marie Sklodowska traveled to Paris to study physics.She did so because