内蒙古固阳县一中2019届高三英语上学期期中试题一、阅读理解（本大题共15小题，共30.0分）AWith online courses, anyone from any part of the world can gain knowledge in any field of interest for free or almost.CourseraIt offers high-quality course from top universities, for free to everyone to improve your resume, advance your career, expand your knowledge, and gain confidence. This online learning platform currently hosts courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. Learn more at https:/www.coursera.org.iTunes UIf youre a student who uses Apple devices, you will be happy to know that you have access to iTunes U, which gives you access to different educational courses from all leading universities for free! This is your chance to learn various subjects from the best colleges and universities in the world. Learn more athttps:/www.apple.com/education/ipad/itunes-u.Academic EarthIt has linked to over 750 online courses and 8,500 individual online lectures, giving students of all ages access to college courses they may otherwise never experience. Whether learning existing coursework, or learning for the sake of learning, anyone has the freedom to learn their own pace from world-famous experts, without being charged more. Learn more at https:/academicearth.org.UC BerkeleyIt offers courses in bioengineering, Japanese, legal studies and public health. Since they are recordings of actual lectures, they lack lecture notes and extra materials. However, each course has audio recordings of lectures via iTunes or video recordings of lectures via YouTube. Learn more at https:/webcast.berkeley.edu.1. What do Coursera and iTunes U have in common according to the passage?A. Both of them are intended specially for high school students.B. Theyre aimed at improving learners career and personality.C. Experts worldwide will give lectures on these platforms.D. The courses are all from top universities worldwide.2. We can learn from the passage that Academic Earth_.A. charges learners nothing for any courseB. has many lectures given by 8,500 lecturersC. provides colleges courses mainly for young men.D. offers college courses at the learners convenience3. If you want to improve your skill in the Japanese language, you can visit_.A. https:/www.coursera.org.B. https:/webcast.berkeley.edu.C. https:/www.apple.com/education/ipad/itunes-u.D. https:/academicearth.org.BChinas cancer researcher Zhu Chen, together with two French researchers Anne Dejean and Hugues de The, received Sjoberg Prize 2018 in Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden on Friday.“We used wisdom from both Chinese and Western medicine and offered a cure to one of the most deadly cancers，” Chen told Xinhua, “I feel that Chinese medicine has potential to contribute more to human health. There are no borders in medicine, because it struggles for benefiting all mankind. Its a language of peace, and of development and progress.” Chen recalled the cooperation with the two French researchers for over 30 years.This years Sjoberg winners have developed a new and targeted treatment for a specific form of blood cancer called acute promyelocytic leukaemia (急性早幼粒白血病). It was once one of the deadliest forms of cancer, but it is now possible to cure nine out of ten patients who receive the new treatment. The winners have made this revolutionary development possible by methodically mapping the molecular mechanisms responsible for the disease.The prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is funded (资助）by the Sjoberg Foundation. The foundation, with a donation of 2.5 billion US dollars, was founded in 2016, and serves to promote（促进） scientific research that focuses on cancer, health and the environment.The Prize is an annual international prize in cancer research awarded to individual researchers or research groups. The prize amounts to one million US dollars, of which 100,000 US dollars is the prize sum and 900,000 US dollars is funding for future research.4. Zhu Chen was awarded Sjoberg Prize for the_.A. research into a languageB. promotion of Chinese medicineC. treatment for a once fatal（致命的） cancerD. cooperation with French researchers5. What can we know about the Sjoberg Foundation?A. It favors individual researchers.B. It funds research in certain fields.C. It donates 2.5 billion US dollars.D. It awards the prize annually.6. What can the text be classified as?A. A biography.B. A news report.C. A science fiction.D. An advertisement.7. What is the best title for the text?A. New cure for cancerB. No borders in medicineC. Great contributions to human healthD. Chinese scientist receiving Sjoberg PrizeCOnce an old man rose early to read each morningHis grandson wanted to be just like his grandfather，so tried to emulate him every way he couldOne day the grandson asked，Grandpa，I try