Question

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was born in Budapest on September 16, 1893. In 1911 he entered his uncle’s laboratory where he studied until the outbreak of World War One, when he joined the army. He served on the Italian and Russian fronts, and he was permitted to leave the army in 1917 after being wounded in action. He completed his studies in Budapest before he went to Hamburg for a two-year course in physical chemistry. In 1920 he became an assistant at a university in Leiden, the Netherlands and from 1922 to 1926 he worked with H. J. Hamburger at the Physiology Institute, Groningen, the Netherlands.

In 1926, Szent-Gyorgyi was ready to end his own life after an embarrassing problem in his career. The scientist, thirty-two, had written a paper and handed it to his boss for approval to publish. His boss threw it in the dustbin. Concluding his life was a failure, the young researcher quit. Unable to support his wife and child, he sent them home to her parents. His final wish was to attend one last scientific meeting, to be among scientists, to have one last good time. So he went to the 1926 International Physiological Society Congress in Sweden.

Sitting in the audience, lost in self-pity, Szent-Gyorgyi listened to the president of the society, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, refer to the fine work of a researcher: Szent-Gyorgyi! After the speech, collecting his courage, he introduced himself to Hopkins. The great man invited the young scientist to Cambridge to do further work.

Szent-Gyorgyi’s life changed. He discovered the oxidation-preventing (防氧化的) action of vitamin C. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He accounted for his success by saying that discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen but thinking what nobody else has thought.

1.Which of the following is the correct order of the events relevant to Szent-Gyorgyi?

a. finished his studies in Budapest

b. served during World War One

c. worked with Hopkins

d. studied in Hamburg

A．b, c, a, d           B．b, a, d, c           C．a(chǎn), c, d, b           D．a(chǎn), b, d, c

2. Why did Szent-Gyorgyi want to end his own life in 1926?

A．His pride was hurt by his boss.

B．He was not satisfied with his paper.

C．He couldn’t support his family.

D．His boss stopped him attending a conference.

3. The passage is organized in the pattern of _____________.

A．cause and effect

B．comparison and contrast

C．time and events

D．definition and classification

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.A

3.C

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹了愛因斯坦的生平事跡，他的工作學(xué)習(xí)，包括人生的低谷和后來的成就。

1.排序題：從文章的第一段可知事件發(fā)生的順序：b. served during World War One--

a. finished his studies in Budapest --d. studied in Hamburg --c. worked with Hopkins選B。

2.從第二段的句子：In 1926, Szent-Gyorgyi was ready to end his own life after an embarrassing problem in his career. The scientist, thirty-two, had written a paper and handed it to his boss for approval to publish. His boss threw it in the dustbin.可知他的自尊被老板傷害了。選A

3.寫作手法題：文章是以故事發(fā)展的時間和事件來寫的。選C 

考點：考查人物傳記類短文

點評：文章介紹了愛因斯坦的生平事跡，他的工作學(xué)習(xí)，包括人生的低谷和后來的成就。

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