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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.
18．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
19．The Curies found the element radium .
A. with other scientists’ help B. by asking some famous scientists
C. by doing many experiments D .with their teachers’ help
20．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
21．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
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One of Britain's bravest women told yesterday how she helped to catch suspected (可疑的) police killer David Bieber -- and was thanked with flowers by the police. It was also said that she could be in line for a share of up to ￡30,000 reward money. Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in ending the nationwide manhunt. Vicki, who has worked at the Royal Hotel for four years, told of her terrible experience when she had to steal into Bieber's bedroom and to watch him secretly. Then she waited alone for three hours while armed police prepared to storm the building. She said: "I was very nervous. But when I opened the hotel door and saw 20 armed policemen lined up in the car park I was so glad they were there.”
The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious (怀疑) of the guest who checked in at 3 pm the day before New Year's Eve with little luggage and wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face. She said: "He didn't seem to want to talk too much and make any eye contact (接触)." Vicki, the only employee on duty, called her bosses Margaret, 64, and husband Stan McKale, 65, who phoned the police at 11 pm. Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm to make sure that this was the wanted man. Then they kept in touch by phoning Vicki every 15 minutes.
"It was about ten past two in the morning when the phone went again and a policeman said ‘Would you go and make yourself known to the armed officers outside?'. My heart missed a beat."
Vicki quietly showed eight armed officers through passages and staircases to the top floor room and handed over the key. "I realized that my bedroom window overlooks that part of the hotel, so I went to watch. I could not see into the man's room, but I could see the passage. The police kept shouting at the man to come out with his hands showing. Then suddenly he must have come out because they shouted for him to lie down while he was handcuffed (带上手铐)。
22. The underlined phrase "be in line for" ( paragraph 1 ) means __
A. get B. be paid C. ask for D. own
23. Vicki became suspicious of David Bieber because __________.
A. the police called her
B. he looked very strange
C. he came to the hotel with little luggage
D. he came to the hotel the day before New Year's Eve
24. Vicki’s heart missed a beat because _________.
A. the phone went again
B. she would be famous
C. the policemen had already arrived
D. she saw 20 policemen in the car park
25. David Bieber was most probably handcuffed in ________.
A. the passage B. the man's room C. Vicki's bedroom D. the top floor room
26. The whole event probably lasted about _______ hours from the moment Bieber came to the hotel to the arrival of some armed officers.
A. 6 B. 8 C. 11 D. 14
四. 改错
Before 1949, women in China were badly looking 1. ______
down upon. They lived hard life. Few of them had 2. ______
chances to work and most of jobs hadn’t given to 3.
women. Everything has been changed since New China 4. ______
was founded. Women in China have liberated in the 5. ______
politics. They enjoy the same rights as men. 6. ______
They can do all kinds jobs that men can. Now 7. ______
women have many chances to get on the tops of 8. ______
factories, companies, schools or government 9. ______
departments. There are more and more woman 10. ______
engineers, scientists, managers police officers
and top officials in the country.
五. 书面表达
最近学校号召同学们告别网吧。你班召开了以“告别网吧”为主题的班会，在会上同学们对上网的利弊争论不休，不能统一。作为班长，请你根据以下要点，作小结发言。
| 少数同学 | 多数同学 |
| 1．课余时间可以在家上网 | 1．上网浪费金钱和时间 |
| 2．网络可获得国内外最新信息；交流方便 | 2．许多人上网是玩游戏不是学习 |
| 3．丰富业余生活 | 3．个别同学为上网而逃学多天 |
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