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On October 10, 2014, Malala, 17, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for struggling for the right of children to education. Malala is the youngest Nobel winner in history.
Malala Yousafzai has never been ordinary. When she was just 11, she started blogging (写博客) about the Taliban takeover of her hometown of Mingora, Pakistan. Taliban members follow an extreme belief of Islam and forbid girls to go to school. Classrooms were closed for several months. Malala spoke out about her desire to go back to school. “All I want is an education,” she told one television broadcaster.
Malala was later able to return to class. But she continued to blog and speak out about girls’ right to education. On October 9, 2012, the Taliban tried to silence her. A gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the head. Malala survived and showed great courage and optimism during her long recovery. At that time she became a symbol of the struggle for girls’ rights all over the world. Nine months after she was shot, she gave a now-famous speech at the United Nations. “They thought that the bullets (子弹) would silence us. But they failed,” she said. “And then, out of that silence came thousands of voices. … Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage were born.”
Malala has also become an international symbol for peace. In 2011, she won Pakistan’s National Youth Peace Prize, which is now renamed the National Malala Peace Prize. Malala said the 2014 Nobel Prize was an “encouragement” to go forward to help kids. “I want to tell children all around the world that they should stand up for their rights,” she said. “This award is for all those children whose voices need to be heard.”
1.All the statements about Malala are true EXCEPT that _____.
A. she started blogging at the age of 11
B. it took her a long time to recover from the injury
C. Taliban tried to silence her but failed
D. she was born in1998 in Mingora, Pakistan.
2. How many peace prizes have gone to Malala so far according to the passage?
A.1. B. 2. C. 3. D. 4.
3. When did Malala become a symbol for girls’ rights?
A. When she began writing her blogs.
B. Before Taliban wanted to kill her.
C. During her long recovery after the shot.
D. When she gave a speech in the UN.
4.We can learn from the passage that Malala is _____.
A. creative and outgoing B. strict and stubborn
C. simple and warm-hearted D. brave and determined
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Celebrating her first day as an adult on July, 12,2015, 18-year-old Nobel Peace Prize- winner Malala Yousafzai did the gift- giving---a girls’ school for Syrian refugees( 叙利亚难民) in Lebanon.
“ I call on leaders of all the countries all around the world that we must invest in books instead of bullets,” Malala Yousafzai said in a speech “ on behalf of the world’s children.” She made it an international conference. When she was 15 in the year 2012, Malala yousafzai was shot on school bus on her way home after school and seriously wounded by some gunmen of the Pakistani Taliban for advocating girls’ education. After recovering ,she continued her advocacy, which led last year to her becoming the youngest Nobel winner ever.
Malala told Reuters that she chose to open the school in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley “ because I believe that the voices of the Syrian refugees need to be heard, and they have been ignored for so long. We must help them to get education. It is my responsibility to set up some
schools for children there.”More than a quarter of the estimated 4 million on Syrians who have fled the country’s civil war are gathering in Lebanon, including about 500,000 school-age children. They have no oppo
rtunities to go to school.Malala Yousafzai set up Malala Fund shortly after she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since then she has done a lot of work to raise money for the education of poor children all around the world. The school, near the Syrian border, can hold up to 200 girls aged14 to 18. The school was paid for by Yousafzai’s non-profit Malala Fund. On that day, all the students in the school shared the birthday cake and sang songs, bringing the Nobel winner to tears.
1.What do you know about Malala Yousafzai?
A. She is a middle school student.
B. She is a teacher in Lebanon.
C. She makes gifts for Syrian refugees.
D. She is a Nobel Prize winner.
2.What happened to Malala when she was 15?
A.She was shot by some gunmen.
B. She suffered from a terrible disease.
C. She made a speech in an international conference.
D. She set up her first school for girls.
3.What did Malala choose to do after she won the Nobel Peace Prize?
A. To fight in the civil war in Syria.
B. To protect Syrian refugees.
C. To open some schools for Syrian children
D. To teacher Syrian children in a school.
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai for their struggles _1._________ the suppression（压迫）of children and for young people's rights, _2.____________(include) the right to education.
Yousafzai came to 3.___________ (globe) attention after she _4.__________(shoot) in the head by the Taliban two years ago for her efforts _5.__________(promote) education for girls in Pakistan.
Through her heroic struggle, Yousafzai has become a leading spokeswoman for girls’ rights to education. According to the Nobel committee, at 17 she’s the6.________(young) ever peace prize winner. “I’m proud that I’m the first Pakistani and the first young woman or the first young person 7.___________ gets this award,” she said in Birmingham, England.
She doesn’t believe that she deserves the award but considers _8._________ an encouragement to continue her campaign and to know that she isn’t9.__________.
Awarding the Peace Prize to a Pakistani Muslim and an Indian Hindu _10.__________(give) a message to people of love between Pakistan and India, and between different religions.
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai for their struggles 1. the suppression（压迫）of children and for young people's rights, 2.(include) the right to education．
Yousafzai came to3.(globe) attention after she 4.(shoot) in the head by the Taliban two years ago for her efforts 5.(promote) education for girls in Pakistan．
Through her heroic struggle, Yousafzai has become a leading spokeswoman for girls’ rights to education．According to the Nobel committee, at 17 she’s the 6.(young) ever peace prize winner．“I’m proud that I’m the first Pakistani and the first young woman or the first young person 7. gets this award,” she said in Birmingham, England．
She doesn’t believe that she deserves the award but considers 8. an encouragement to continue her campaign and to know that she isn’t 9.．
Awarding the Peace Prize to a Pakistani Muslim and an Indian Hindu _10._(give) a message to people of love between Pakistan and India, and between different religions．
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Arthur Miller was born on October 17th, 1915 and died on February 10th, 2005.Over the course of seven decades(十年) of literature career(文学生涯), Arthur Miller created some of the most memorable stage plays(舞台剧) in American Literature. He is the author of DeathofaSalesmanandTheCrucible. Born and raised in Manhattan, Miller went through the best and the worst of American society.
Arthur Miller's childhood：His father was a productive shopkeeper and clothing manufacturer(制造商) until the Great Depression(大萧条时期) dried up nearly all business opportunities.Yet, despite being faced with poverty, Miller made the best of his childhood. He was a very active young man, in love with such sports as football and baseball. When he wasn't playing outside, he enjoyed reading adventure stories. He was also kept busy by his many boyhood jobs. He often worked alongside his father. During other times in his life, he delivered bakery goods and worked as a clerk in a car parts warehouse.
College life: In 1934, Miller left the east coast to attend the University of Michigan. He was accepted into their school of journalism. His experiences during the Depression made him skeptical (怀疑的) about religion. Politically, he began leaning towards the "Left”.And since the theater was the cutting edge way for socioeconomic liberals (自由主义者) to express their views, he decided to enter the Hopwood Drama competition. His first play, NoVillain, received an award from the university.It was an impressive beginning for the young playwright; he had never studied plays or playwriting, and he had written his play in just five days!
Miller's later years: In 1987, his autobiography was published. Many of his later plays dealt with personal experience. In particular, his final play, FinishingthePicture mirrors the last days of his marriage to Marilyn Monroe.In 2005, Arthur Miller passed away at the age of 89.
1.What can we know about Arthur Miller from Paragraph 2?
A．He was born into a poor family.
B．His father wasn't good at business.
C．He couldn't adjust himself to poverty.
D．He had to do lots of jobs to make a living.
2.Arthur Miller began to write plays ________.
A．when he was in college
B．when he was a small boy
C．because his father encouraged him to do so
D．because it was one of his school assignments(作业)
3.We can infer from Paragraph 3 that ________.
A．the University of Michigan is on the east coast of the USA
B．Miller's university education made him doubt religion
C．Miller learned playwriting all by himself
D．socioeconomic liberals were probably not politically "left”
4.Which of the following plays tells the story of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe?
A．Death of a Salesman.
B．The Crucible.
C．No Villain.
D．Finishing the Picture.
5.The passage is intended to________.
A．introduce Arthur Miller's plays
B．tell us about Arthur Miller's childhood
C．explain how Arthur Miller started to write plays
D．give us a brief introduction to Arthur Miller's life
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US singer Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first songwriter ______ the honor.
A. winning B. having won
C. to win D. to be won
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Last week, Donna Strickland was awarded the 2018 Nobel prize for physics jointly with Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou. It’s the first time in 55 years that a woman has won this famous prize, but why has it taken so long? We look at five other pioneering female physicists — past and present — who actually deserve the prize.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Perhaps the most famous snub(冷落): then-student Bell discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, when she was a PhD student at Cambridge. The Nobel prize that recognised this landmark discovery in 1974, however, went to her male supervisor, Antony Hewish. Recently awarded a £2.3m Breakthrough Prize, which she gave away to help under-represented students, she joked to the Guardian: “I feel I’ve done very well out of not getting a Nobel prize.”
Lene Hau
Hau is best known for leading the research team at Harvard University in 1999 that managed to slow a beam of light, before managing to stop it completely in 2001. Often topping Nobel prize prediction lists, could 2019 be Hau’s year?
Vera Rubin
Rubin discovered dark matter in the 1980s, opening up a new field of astronomy. She died in 2016, without recognition from the committee.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Wu’s “Wu experiment” helped disprove the “law of conservation of parity”. Her experimental work was helpful but never honoured, and instead, her male colleagues won the 1957 Nobel prize for their theoretical work behind the study.
Lise Meitner
Meitner led groundbreaking work on the discovery of nuclear fission. However, the discovery was acknowledged by the 1944 Nobel prize for chemistry, which was won by her male co-lead, Otto Hahn.
1.When was the discovery of radio pulsars recognized by the Nobel?
A. In 1944. B. In 1967. C. In 1974. D. In 1980.
2.Which woman is most likely to win a Nobel prize later according to the text?
A. Donna Strickland. B. Jocelyn Bell Burnell. C. Lene Hau. D. Vera Rubin.
3.What do we know about the five females?
A. The five female scientists did greatly in chemistry.
B. Vera Rubin had opened up a new field in geometry.
C. Lise Meitner’s teacher won a Noble prize for her work.
D. All their findings haven’t been recognized by the Nobel.
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It was for his excellent work _____he had done lately ____ he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
A. that… which B. which … which C. that… / D. that … that
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- This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to two researchers from the United States and Japan for advances in discovering how the body’s immune system fights against cancer.
- Yes.____.
A. That’s a good point. B. It’s back in the news.
C. You can’t be serious. D. That’s quite something.
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MoYan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2012, ________made one of the Chinese people’s long-held dreams come true.
A. it B. that
C. what D. which
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schools for children there.”