1.1.  New words

1)    Prodigious

a) extremely great in ability, amount, or strength: She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels. She was a prodigious musician.  巨大的; 给人印象深刻的

b) tremendous / wonderful / huge / enormous / massive

2)   thorium  英 ['θɔːrɪəm]  美 ['θɔrɪəm]n. [化学] 钍（放射性金属元素，元素符号Th，原子序数为90）

3)   inauguration ceremony就职典礼

4)   inauguration day n. 美国总统就职日

5)   prestigious

a)  A prestigious institution, job, or activity is respected and admired by people.

6)   Outstanding

a)  distinguished from others in excellence

7)   Decisive

a)  able to make decisions quickly and confidently, or showing this quality 果断的，干脆的；有决断力的

         i. You need to be more decisive. 你要更果断一些。

         ii. a decisive reply 干脆的回答

b)  决定性的，具有决定意义的

         i.These results could prove decisive in establishing the criminal's identity. 这些结果对确定罪犯的身份将具有决定性的作用。

         ii.  a decisive role 决定性的作用

         iii. a decisive victory

1.2. Questions

题目简单，两种题型：TRUE / FALSE /NOT GIVEN

另一种题型：FILL GAP.

关键术语：radioactivity, Marie Curie’s research on radioactivity

1.2.1. Questions 1-6

1  Marie Curie’s husband was a joint winner of both Marie’s Nobel Prizes.

第一段：She was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics, and was thensole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

FALSE

2 Marie becameinterested in science when she was a child.

NG

3 Marie was able to attend the Sorbonne because of her sister’s financial contribution.

第二段：From her earnings she was able to finance her sister Bronia’s medical studies in Paris, on the understanding that Bronia would, in turn, later help her to get an education.

In 1981, this promise was fulfilled and Marie went to Paris and began to study at Sorbonne.

TRUE

4 Marie stopped doing research for several years when her children were born.

88页第二段：The births of Marie’s two daughters, I..and Eve, in 1987 and 1904 failed to interrupt her scientific work.

FALSE

5 Marie took over the teaching position her husband had held.

88页第三段：On May 13, 1906, she was appointed to the professorship that had been left vacant on her husband’s death, becoming the first woman to teach a t the Sorbonne.

TRUE

6 Marie’s sister Bronia studied the medical uses of radioactivity.

NG

1.2.2.  FILL GAP 7-13

从第四段开始：讲到radioactivity

(7 ) When uranium was discovered to be radioactive, Marie Curie found that the element called _ thorium  had the same property.

Answer: Marie Curie decided to find out if the radioactivity discovered in uranium was to be found in other elements. She discovered that this was true for thorium.

(8)  Marie and Pierre Curie’s research into the radioactivity of the mineral known as_pitchblende _led to the discovery of two new elements..

Answer: Turning her attention to minerals, she found her interest drawn to pitchblende, a mineral whose radioactivity…. Purrie Curie joined her in the work that she had undertaken to resolve this problem, and that led to the discovery of the new elements, polonium and radium.

(9) In 1911, Marie Curie received recognition for her work on the element ___ radium ______

Answer: 根据1911锁定段落，In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chmistry for the isolation of a pure form of radium.

(10) Marie and Irene developed X-radiography which was used as a medical  technique for __ soldiers ____.

Answer: During World War I, Marie Curie, with the help of her daughter Irene, devoted herself to the development of the use X-radiography,  , used for the treatment of wounded soldiers.

这道题有些难度。很容易误选为 treatment. Treatment is medical attention given to a sick or injured person or animal. 题目中的a medical  technique 包含treatment的意思，所以for后面跟soldiers.

（11） Marie Curie saw the importance of collecting radioactive material both for research and for cases of ____ illness ____.

 Answer: One of Marie Curie’s outstanding achievements was to have understood the need to accumulate intense radioactive sources, not only to treat illness but also to maintain an abundant supply of research.

(12) The radioactive material stocked in Paris contributed to the diacoveries in the 1930s of the _ neutron _ and of what was known as artificial radioactivity.

Answer: This work prepared the way for the discovery of the neutron by Sir…, for the discovery of artificial radioactivity.

(13)  During her research, Marie Curie was exposed to radiation and as a result she suffered from _leukaemia _. 

Answer: A few months after this discovery, Marie Curie died as a result of leukaemia caused by exposure to radiation.