Today many people say that women have the same chance as men in society. But this was not always so. In the past, women all over the world had to fight to get the same chance as men in education and jobs. Many people said that women should not receive much education because they would not do as well as men when they went to work.
One woman who showed that women should have the same chance was Marie, a scientist. In the 1800s scientists knew that a metal, uranium, gave off radiation. They also knew how much radiation came from his element. But they didn’t know what this radiation was like; they wondered why and how uranium gave off radiation. Marie Curie set out to answer these questions. In one of her experiments she was studying a certain material which, she knew, contained uranium, But it gave off 4 times as much radiation as usually does. What could explain this fact? Marie Curie thought that there must be another source of radiation in this material.
In 1898 Marie Curie set out to find out this new source of radiation, which she named “radium”. Her husband, who was also a scientist, helped her. They set up a laboratory in an old building behind a school. For four years Curies searched, doing many experiments, And one morning in 1902 Marie found the source of the radiation.
Marie Curie proved to the world that there was element that gave off radiation. And she also proved to the world that, if women are given truly equal chance, they can really help society.
小題1:The scientists of Marie Curie’s day knew .
A．that uranium gave off radiation
B．that radium gave off radiation
C．that there was some radium in uranium
D．that uranium and radium both gave off radiation
小題2:The Curies found the element radium .
A．with other scientists’ helpB．by asking some famous scientists
C．by doing many experimentsD．with their teachers’ help
小題3:In the past many people thought .
A．that women must get the same chance as men in education and jobs
B．that women should receive much education
C．that women should get good jobs
D．that women could not do the work well
小題4:Marie Curie proved to people .
A．that there was a new element uranium
B．that there was a new element radium
C．that women could do their work as well as men if they were really given the same conditions
D．both B and C

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:D

試題分析：
小題1:細節(jié)題。由文中的這句In the 1800s scientists knew that a metal, uranium, gave off radiation.可知答案選A。
小題2:細節(jié)題。由文章第二段和第三段可知居里夫婦做了很多的實驗，終于發(fā)現(xiàn)了鐳元素，故答案選C。
小題3:推斷題。由第一段的In the past, women all over the world had to fight to get the same chance as men in education and jobs. Many people said that women should not receive much education because they would not do as well as men when they went to work.可知過去人們認為女人不會像男人一樣把工作做好，故答案選D。
小題4:細節(jié)題。由最后一段的Marie Curie proved to the world that there was element that gave off radiation. And she also proved to the world that, if women are given truly equal chance, they can really help society.可知答案選D。
點評：文章通過對鐳是如何被發(fā)現(xiàn)的來說明居里夫人這個人物對世界科學(xué)方面所做的貢獻，同時更說明了女人也可以像男人一樣把工作做好，只要給予她們平等的機會和權(quán)利。文章思路清晰，主旨鮮明，帶著問題，通讀全文，找尋答案。
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