高一上学期协作校第二次考试

英语试题

考生注意：

1.本试卷共120分。考试时间100分钟。

2.请将各题答案填写在答题卡上。

第一部分阅读理解(共两节，满分35分）

第一节（共10小题;每小题2. 5分，满分25分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Perhaps the image of a typical woman scientist is like this： a pair of thick glasses，messy hair and a few wrinkles on the forehead Ning Yan may break your traditional opinion about women scientists with her high-heeled shoes (高跟鞋）and beautiful looks.

"The goddess scientist", Yan, 42, is a leading biology researcher at Princeton University in the US. On April 30，she was included among 100 new members and 25 foreign workmates into the National Academy of Sciences，whose purpose is to recognize prominent research in the US.

After graduating from Tsinghua University and Princeton，she became one of China's youngest-ever women professors.

It was a long road to get where she is now. She believes that scientists need to have determination to keep trying. Yan likes to work at night. She says it is quiet not to be bothered. She also works at least 14 hours a day because research is the most "comfortable" job for her.

This devotion to her work probably helped Yan in her research to identify the structures of proteins (蛋白质）in cells' plasma membranes (细胞膜蛋白结构），which is unknown to scientists for half a century. Her achievements got her listed in the famous magazine Nature in 2016.

Apart from scientific research, Yan enjoys classic novels. The novel Journey to the West made her want to become a biologist, because in the book the Monkey King