2020中考英语复习方案第03篇任务型阅读03种子地窖+诺贝尔奖试题

任务型阅读(三)　种子地窖+诺贝尔奖

A　[2019·内江]

The Seed Vault(种子地窖)

A lot of countries need different kinds of seeds so that they can plant them again. There is an important reason for this. Sometimes plants can't grow in a country because of bad weather or disease, so farmers need new seeds.

You can keep seeds in a “seed vault”. It's a place at a special temperature. The seeds don't grow, but they can live for a long time. Norway has the biggest seed vault in the world—the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—and it has seeds from a lot of different countries.

The vault is on the island of Spitsbergen. The island is about one thousand kilometers from the North Pole. It's a very cold place so it's good for seeds. Above the ground, the doorway is small, but inside, the building is huge. You walk down a long corridor(走廊), which is one hundred and thirty meters inside a mountain. At the end of it, there are three large areas with seeds.

There are about half a million kinds of seeds inside the vault. For example, there are kinds of seeds for rice from Asia and Africa, 32 kinds of seeds for potatoes from Ireland and seeds for different tomatoes from the USA.

The seed vault has space for a lot more seeds. You can put about 2.2 billion(十亿) seeds inside. The seeds can live here for thousands of years because of the cold temperature of -18 ℃. So, in the future, humans can grow any seed they want. In other words, the seed vault is the difference between life and death.

1.Why can't plants grow in a country?

2.Where is the biggest seed vault in the world?

3.How far is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault from the North Pole?

4.How many seeds can be put in the seed vault?

5.What place is a seed vault?(within 12 words)

B　[2019·泰州模拟改编]

The Nobel Prizes are among the most important and international prizes in the world. The prizes are given to encourage great discoveries or special achievements. The fields cover physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology(医学或生理学), literature, world peace and economics(经济学).

The prizes were first given out in 1901. And since then it has been presented almost every year. The economics prizes began only in 1969. The winners receive a large sum of money, a medal and a certificate(证书). They are admired and respected for their hard work and the achievements they have made.

The prizes were created by a Swedish chemist called Alfred Nobel. Nobel devoted much of his life to working with explosives(炸药). In 1864, his younger brother and several other people were killed in an experiment. After his brother's death, Nobel decided to discover a way of making explosives safer to use.

When he died in 1896, he left about US$9 million. In his will(遗嘱), Nobel said the money and the prize should be given to people who had contributed a lot for mankind each year, no matter which country they were from.

Marie Curie won the prize twice. It makes her still one of the most famous winners today. She was also the first woman winner. One of the other women to win a prize was her daughter, who won the prize for chemistry in 1935.

1.How many Nobel Prizes are given out each year?

2.Who can win a Nobel Prize?

3.Which Nobel Prize was not given out in 1901?

4.How did Nobel's brother die?

5.Why is Marie Curie still one of the most famous winners?

【参考答案】

A

1.Because of bad weather or disease.

2.In Norway.

3.About one thousand kilometers.

4.About 2.2 billion.

5.A place where seeds don't grow, but can live for a long time.

B

1.Six (prizes).

2.People who have contributed a lot for mankind.

3.The economics prizes.

4.He was killed in an experiment./He was killed by explosives./Explosives killed him.

5.Because she won the prize twice.