Unit 3 A taste of English humour Using language课时作业

Ⅰ.阅读理解

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　　Maria (1718－1799) was a famous Italian mathematician. She was described in a book as follows："Maria was a child prodigy (神童), but was also shy."

　　She stayed at home, teaching the younger children and following her own studies. When her mother died after giving birth to twenty­one children, Maria took over the running of the household. At the age of twenty she started a ten­year project, a book bringing together the work on calculus (微积分学) of Leibnitz and Newton titled Analytic Institutions. Sometimes she would have trouble with a problem, but her mind went on working even in her sleep; she would sleepwalk to her study and back to bed. In the morning, she would find the answer to the problem waiting on her desk. Her book made her famous; she was living proof of what she had argued at nine years old that women had a right to study science. But Maria had other interests in her life apart from mathematics. She had always worked with the poor people in her area, and she had asked her father for separate rooms and turned them into a private hospital. She worked at the hospital (and another) until she died at the age of eighty­one. Maria wrote an important book on mathematics, as well as another unpublished book. She ran a household of over twenty people, and she worked for people who had not had her luck and opportunities. Each one of these things was remarkable, but she did them all.

　　语篇解读：本文是一篇人物传记。主要介绍了意大利著名数学家Maria的成功经历和她为一些穷人做出的贡献。

　　1．We know from the text that Maria ________.

　　A．was a maths teacher when she was young

　　B．lived a rich life in her childhood

　　C．was born in a large family

　　D．was too shy to teach others

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。根据第二段第二句可知她妈妈有21个孩子，所以她家是个大家庭。

　　2．It can be inferred from the text that ________.

　　A．there were some good schools for children when Maria was young

　　B．women were not allowed to study science when Maria was a little girl

　　C．women had equal rights to learn anything as boys did

D．Maria had the ability to make enough money to bring up her brothers and sisters