I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice. It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important recognition of my work, but the real pleasure was in the work itself. Scientific research is like an exploration of a voyage of discovery. You are continually trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead nowhere and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experiment does work and tells you something new and that is really exciting. However small the new finding may be, it is great to think “ I am the only person who knows this” and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will lead to and deciding what will be the next experiment. One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is never boring. There are good times when things go well and bad times when they don’t. Some people get discouraged at the difficult times but when I have a failure, my policy has always been not to worry but to start planning the next experiment, which is always fun.
It is very exciting to make a new discovery. Some people will do the strangest things for this excitement, such as going round the world in a balloon or walking to the North Pole. There are not many new places to explore but there is a lot of new information to be discovered in science and a journey into this unknown area can be much more worthwhile and just as exciting.
I am sometimes asked, “What do you have to do to win a Nobel Prize?” My answer is: “I don’t know. I have never tried.” But I know of one way not to win one. There are some people whose main reason for doing science is to win prizes and they are always thinking about how to do it. Such people don’t succeed. To do good science you must be interested in it and enjoy doing experiments and thinking out problems. And, of course, you must be prepared to work hard and not to be too discouraged by failure.
1.In the writer’s eyes his greatest pleasure in all his lifetime is _______.
A. to win the Nobel Prize for the first time
B. to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the second time.
C. in the work itself
D. to have a much more important recognition of his work.
2.Why did the writer think scientific research to be one of the best things?
A. You will be able to win the Nobel Prize through the scientific research
B. You can make as much money as possible by doing the scientific research.
C. You may continue doing with something different and exciting, so you can never be tired of doing the scientific research.
D. You can get much more chances of promotion by making the scientific research.
3.What would the writer do when he had a failure?
A. He would forget this failure and start the next experiment.
B. He used to be worried about it for several days and never forget it.
C. He always gave up his study as the result of the failure.
D. He used to think out the reasons and then continue to do it again.
4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The writer could still keep calm when he heard the news that he had won the Nobel Prize.
B. The writer always gave up his courage when he met with some difficulties in the course of his scientific research.
C. In the field of science there are still many new things which need to be studied further.
D. There are still many exciting places to explore in the world.
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I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice. It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important recognition of my work, but the real pleasure was in the work itself. Scientific research is like an exploration of a voyage of discovery. You are continually trying out new things that have not been done before. Many of them will lead nowhere and you have to try something different, but sometimes an experiment does work and tells you something new and that is really exciting. However small the new finding may be, it is great to think “ I am the only person who knows this” and then you will have the fun of thinking what this finding will lead to and deciding what will be the next experiment. One of the best things about scientific research is that you are always doing something different and it is never boring. There are good times when things go well and bad times when they don’t. Some people get discouraged at the difficult times but when I have a failure, my policy has always been not to worry but to start planning the next experiment, which is always fun.
It is very exciting to make a new discovery. Some people will do the strangest things for this excitement, such as going round the world in a balloon or walking to the North Pole. There are not many new places to explore but there is a lot of new information to be discovered in science and a journey into this unknown area can be much more worthwhile and just as exciting.
I am sometimes asked, “What do you have to do to win a Nobel Prize?” My answer is: “I don’t know. I have never tried.” But I know of one way not to win one. There are some people whose main reason for doing science is to win prizes and they are always thinking about how to do it. Such people don’t succeed. To do good science you must be interested in it and enjoy doing experiments and thinking out problems. And, of course, you must be prepared to work hard and not to be too discouraged by failure.
1.In the writer’s eyes his greatest pleasure in all his lifetime is _______.
A. to win the Nobel Prize for the first time
B. to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the second time.
C. in the work itself
D. to have a much more important recognition of his work.
2.Why did the writer think scientific research to be one of the best things?
A. You will be able to win the Nobel Prize through the scientific research
B. You can make as much money as possible by doing the scientific research.
C. You may continue doing with something different and exciting, so you can never be tired of doing the scientific research.
D. You can get much more chances of promotion by making the scientific research.
3.What would the writer do when he had a failure?
A. He would forget this failure and start the next experiment.
B. He used to be worried about it for several days and never forget it.
C. He always gave up his study as the result of the failure.
D. He used to think out the reasons and then continue to do it again.
4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The writer could still keep calm when he heard the news that he had won the Nobel Prize.
B. The writer always gave up his courage when he met with some difficulties in the course of his scientific research.
C. In the field of science there are still many new things which need to be studied further.
D. There are still many exciting places to explore in the world.
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When it was announced that Patrick Modiano had won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Oct.9, the Swedish Academy had not yet managed to reach the writer himself to tell him the news. as the Telegraph put it, “It was a curious case of missing personhood in an author whose career had been spent in searching others, within the confines (界限) of a single city.”
Though the 69-year-old French author has had a successful writing career, only six of his books have been translated into English. One reason for this might be that “Modiano’s storylines are as slim as the books themselves”, said the BBC.
While most of Modiano’s works don’t run for hundreds of pages, they explore serious subjects. The author’s signature themes are Germany’s occupation during World War II and the evolution of Paris over the past century.
Modiano’s life has been greatly affected by Nazi Germany’s occupation during the war, and his family’s connections to it. According to New York-based newspaper Forward, his father survived the war dishonorably. When Paris’s Jews were rounded up for deportation(驱逐)to concentration camps, the businessman did not join them but spent the time making money from deals with Nazis on the black market.
“The novelist has a duty to record the traces of the people who were made to disappear,” French writer Clemence Boulouque, also an expert in Jewish Studies, told The New York magazine.
In his more than three dozen novels, Modiano has returned again and to the same themes: Jewishness, the Nazi occupation, and loss of identity.
Paris is another recurring(重复的)theme in Modiano’s works .Most of his novels are set in the city , from the rich parts of downtown Paris to more remote suburbs where the characters try to live anonymous protect lives.
Anne Ghisoli, the director of Librairie Gallimard, a bookstore in Paris, concluded, “Modiano is a master of writing on memory and occupation, which haunt(萦绕)and inform his works. He is a chronicler(年代记录者)of Paris ,its streets, and its present.”
1.According to the article, Patrick Modiano ____________.
A. likes to involve his his memories in his writing
B. usually writes stories with disappearing people
C. is so popular that post of his works are on sale
D. didn’t suffer much during World War II thanks to his father
2.The underline word “slim” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ____.
A. thin B. hard
C. simple D. dull
3.Which of the following can be the best title?
A. French Author’s Surprise
B. Modiano’s Life and His Books
C. World War II and the Nazis
D. Memory Author Wins the Nobel
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Obama gets Nobel for contributions to peace
US President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize________1.October 9 for his calls to reduce the world's nuclear weapons and work for world peace.
Since taking office in January as the ________2. African American president, Obama has called for the cutting of nuclear weapons and worked to restart the Middle East peace process.
The prize, worth $1.4 million, will________3.handed over to Obama in Norway on December 10. Obama will also get a gold medal and a diploma.
The Nobel Committee said it attached special importance to Obama's work for a world4.nuclear weapons.
" Only every rarely has a person to the same extent(程度) ________5.Obama captured(引起) the world's attention and given its people hope for ________6. better future," the Nobel Committee said.
People had guessed Obama might be the winner before the award, ________7.many Nobel watchers believed it was ________8.early to award the president.
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Having been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, _________.
A. Mo Yan’s years of effort was well deserved
B. his folks back at home were on top of the world.
C. the current network evaluation is full of envy and jealousy
D. Mo Yan felt that his years of effort paid off
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Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in 2012. Many fans are eagerly waiting for his new novel to ______.
A.come out B.turn out C.make out D.go out
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Mo Yan has been the first________Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, ___________ arouses people’s interest in reading his works.
A.ever; which B.even; that C.even; which D.ever; that
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Mo Yan’s novels have been in great __________ since he won the Nobel Prizein Literature.
A. quality B. sale C. progress D. demand
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We all love college reunion(再聚). I feel very lucky to have been able to ______ my 25th anniversary reunion. The meals were ______ welcomed. The celebration was inspiring,______ an overview of the past years. And the ______ of my four years on campus were satisfying and ______.
One of my favourite parts was ______ about the lives of my classmates. Their ______ lives-families, relationships-and also their professional work. There’s the classmate who is an organic farmer and a leader in the effort to ______ other farmers about organic farming skills; the classmate who ______ over her family’s power plant; the classmate who ______ her own company; the classmate who went to a(n)______ school and now works as a delivery nurse. All are inspirational. What they also ______ is a commitment to learning, leading, challenging and contributing, all things we learned the value of in college.
Then there is our classmate who passed away in January 2017. He shared the commitment to all the ______ listed above, as well as to the value of adventure and positive thinking. He was missed ______ words. As a class, we ______ him on Saturday evening and as a college, we did honor to him, along with other classmates who have passed away in the past five years, at a memorial service on Sunday morning. I was honored, on ______ of our class and our college, to read his name and ______ a candle for him at the service. This classmate was an ______ throughout his short life.
I have been ______ on my 25th reunion and on my college days and all the days since. I am ______ for the lessons I have learned so far. And I am inspired.
1.A. watch B. attend C. prepare D. visit
2.A. normally B. deeply C. regularly D. hopefully
3.A. supporting B. providing C. earning D. making
4.A. experiments B. incidents C. memories D. behaviors
5.A. appreciated B. considered C. discussed D. searched
6.A. seeing B. leaving C. looking D. learning
7.A. daily B. social C. personal D. official
8.A. ignore B. encourage C. congratulate D. educate
9.A. watched B. took C. called D. got
10.A. forms B. reunites C. runs D. spoils
11.A. art B. graduate C. nursing D. law
12.A. supply B. explore C. admit D. share
13.A. styles B. qualities C. evidence D. relics
14.A. throughout B. over C. by D. beyond
15.A. honored B. voted C. released D. removed
16.A. top B. account C. call D. behalf
17.A. light B. make C. blow D. mop
18.A. application B. inspiration C. reception D. protection
19.A. depending B. passing C. reflecting D. taking
20.A. peaceful B. faithful C. hopeful D. grateful
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Chinese writer Mo Yan has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday.The win makes Mo Yan the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel in its history.Informed of his win today, the author, who was having dinner at home, was “overjoyed and scared".
Born in 1955 to parents who were farmers, Mo Yan-a pen name for Guan Moye,grew up in Gaomi in Shandong province in eastern China. At the age of 12, he left school to work, first in agriculture, later in a factory. In 1976 he joined the army and during this time began to study literature and writing.
He published his first book in 1981, but found literary success in 1987 with Hong Gaoliang Jiazu, which was successfully filmed in the same year, directed by a famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou. In his writing, Mo Yan draws on his youthful experiences and on settings in the province of his birth and his works show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs. Mo Yan is known as a prolific(多产的)writer. In addition to his novels, he has published many short stories and essays on various topics. Despite his social criticism, he is seen in his homeland as one of the most famous contemporary authors. Dozens of his works have been translated into English, French, Japanese and many other languages.
The awarding ceremony will be held on December 10.The winner will win a medal, a personal diploma and a cash award of about $l million.
1.How did Mo Yan feel when he was told about the news?
A.Excited and proud. B. Happy and surprised
C.Worried and cautious D. Uncertain and shocked
2.Mo Yan developed his ability for writing when he was ________.
A.on a farm B.in a factory C.in a school D.in the army
3.One of Mo Yan's characteristics of writing is that he ________.
A.writes about topics he is familiar with
B.focuses on social problems in the country
C.describes his characters in a unique way
D.explains difficult matters in simple words
4.Which of the statements is true?
A.Mo Yan published his first book when he was 20 years old.
B.The movie Hong Gaoliang was made in 1987.
C.Mo Yan only writes novels.
D.Mo Yan’s works are mostly about city life.
5.What's the best title for this passage?
A.How Mo Yan Gets Nobel Prize B.An Introduction to Nobel Prize
C.Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature D.A World Famous Writer, Mo Yan
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Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, announced Sara Danius, Swedish Academy’s permanent secretary, on Thursday in Stockholm.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” Danius said at the Swedish Academy.
“As an artist, he is versatile; he has been active as painter, actor and scriptwriter,” said the official statement.
Apart from his large production of albums, Dylan has published experimental work. He has written the autobiography Chronicles (2004), which describes memories from the early years in New York and his life at the center of popular culture, it added.
Born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, in the United States, the 75-year-old rock singer is the first songwriter to win the glorious award and the first American to win since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993.
Barack Obama said the honour was well-deserved. “Congratulations to one of my favourite poets,” he wrote on Twitter.
Dylan, who took his stage name from the poet Dylan Thomas, had long been regarded as a potential prize winner.
Former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion is among those who have ever praised Dylan’s lyrics, saying they are often the best words in the best order.
Dylan began his musical career in Minnesota before heading for New York. Many of his best-known works date from the 1960s, when he became an informal historian of America’s troubles. His songs Blowing in the Wind and The Times They are A-Changing were popular in the anti-war and civil rights movements.
Few experts, though, expected the academy to extend the award to a folk music songwriter. In 112 years, no songwriter has ever won before. What makes a man who has only ever written three books a suitable winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
1.What does the underlined word in Para 3 mean?
A.able to do things in different fields
B.able to understand others’ feelings
C.able to produce a lot
D.able to succeed at an old age
2.Many of Bob Dylan’s best-known songs _______________.
A.were written before he arrived in New York.
B.date back to the middle 1970s.
C.were often sung in the political movements.
D.show America’s troubled history.
3.What is the main idea of the passage?
A.Dylan’s winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.
B.Dylan’s life experiences as an artist.
C.Dylan’s contribution to the American literature.
D.Dylan’s musical career in America.
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