河北名校3月份百题精练（2）英语试题第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A.B.C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Tu Youyou, the 85-year-old Chinese pharmacologist（药理学家），received the Nobel Prizefor medicine in Stockholm on December 10,2015. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel winner in physiology（生理学）or medicine. Also, in 2011, she became the first Chinese person to receivethe US-based Lasker Award for clinical medicine. Based on a fourth-century Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) text, together with her team,she managed to get artemisinin【青蒿素）from sweet wormwood through trial and error and developed an important drug that has significantly reduced death rates among patients suffering from malaria. Tu delivered a speech titled Artemisinin is a Gift from TCM to the World. She has urged more research into the benefits of traditional Chinese medicine and called for joint efforts worldwide to fight against malaria and develop more potential uses for TCM, which she called agreat treasure wiffi thousands of years history and empirical knowledge. She said that by combining TCM with modem scientific technologies, more potential can be discovered in searching for new drugs . According to the WHO, more than 240 rrullion people in sub-Saharan Africa have benefitedfrom舭tmisinin, and more than l. 5 nullion lives are estimated to have been saved since 2000thanks to the drug. Apart from its contribution to the global fight against malaria, TCM played avital role in the deadly outbreak of SARS across China in 2003. Besides treating viruses, TCM has been most effective in diagnosing diseases, cultivating fitness, treating difficult multisource illneases, and using nonmedicinal methods such as acupuncture (钟刺疗法) and breatlung exercises. However, TCM, which is based on a set of beliefs about human biology, is seldom understood or accepted by the West. Tu s success will bring more recognition and respect for TCM, experts say. The Westem world should leam to appreciate the value of the treasures of TCM, which will lead to more basic scientific research into ancient TCM texts and ways to explore research findings worldwide.21. In this passage the author mentions _ prize( s) that Tu Youyou received. A. one B. two C. three D. four22. The underlined word malaria in Paragraph 2 refers to a kind of . A. medicine B. aninud. C. plant D. disease23. What can we leam from the passage? A. Tus success may encourage Eastemers to leam more about Chinese medicine. B. Nothing remains to be done in researclung into TCM theories and texts. C. More research into the value of TCM should be carried out worldwide. D. TCM only contributes to the fight against mal.aria and SARS in China.24. Whats the passage mainly about? A. TCM is based on thousands of years of practice in China. B. Nobel winner, Tu Youyou, strongly supports TCM research. C. Artenusinin is now widely used to fight against Malaria. D. Westemers will appreciate the value of the treasures of TCM. B I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg last night, a distance of about eighty miles. It was late. Several times I got stuck behind a slow-moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left, and I was clinching (紧握) my fists with impatience. At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with the traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but as I approached the light, it turned red and I braked to stop. I looked left, rlight and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat, waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction. I started wondering why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being arrested, because there were obviously no police around, and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it. Much later that night, the question of why I d stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it8 part of an agreement we all have with each other. Its not only the law, but its an agreement we have, and we trust each other to honor it: we dont go through red lights. Its amazing that we ever trust each other to do the right thing, isnt it? And we do, too. Trust is our rrrst tendency. We have to make a deliberate decision to mistrust someone or to be suspicious or skeptical. Those attitudes dont come naturally to us. It s a very good thing too, because the whole structure of our society depends on mutual trust, not disWst. This whole thing around us would fall apart if we didnt trust each other most of the time. We do what we say weII do; we show up when we say well show up; we deliver when we say weU deLiver; and we pay when we say well