One of the Nobel Economics Prize winner once said: "Every leisure act has an economic payo
A.reward
B.loss
C.claim
D.disadvantage
A.reward
B.loss
C.claim
D.disadvantage
Which one of the four American writers won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?
A.Saul Bellow.
B.Joseph Brodsky.
C.Toni Morrison.
D.Isaac Basheris Singer.
Which was NOT originally one of the Nobel Prizes?
A. The medicine prize.
B. The literature prize.
C. The peace prize.
D. The economics prize.
Which was NOT originally one of the Nobel Prizes?
A.The medicine prize
B.The literature prize
C.The peace prize
D.The economics prize
Which was NOT originally one of the Nobel Prizes?
A.The medicine prize.
B.The literature prize.
C.The peace prize.
D.The economics prize.
A.The medicine prize.
B.The literature prize.
C.The peace prize.
D.The economics prize.
B: As the Nobel prize winner in physics of the year, your are invited to come back to your university for a lecture on the topic of The Way to Success. Before the lecture, you are interviewed by a reporter of a college journal. Try to explain to the reporter what you believe are the essential qualities for a scientist and what preparations should one make for future success.
special gift intelligent genius curious patience
simplistic determination accessible persistence hard working
Welcome back to.
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What do you think is ...
Thank you for ...
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But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome (染色体组).
To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode (线虫类的) worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and
what can be done to make it better.
What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.
Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases hke AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.
Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has ______.
A.found that human beings are similar to the worm
B.got the fact we share 40 percent of our genetic structure with the simple worm
C.found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body
D.proved that cell death is programmed
Pearl S. Buck was almost a household word throughout much of her life time because of her prolific literary output, which consisted of some eighty-five published works, including several dozen novels, six collections of short stories, fourteen books for children, and more than a dozen works of nonfiction. When she was eighty years old, some twenty-five volumes were awaiting publication. Many of those books were set in China, the land in which she spent so much of her life. Her books and her life served as a bridge between the cultures of the East and the West. As the product of those two cultures she became, as she described herself, "mentally bifocal". Her unique background made her into an unusually interesting and versatile human being.
As we examine the life of Pearl Buck, we cannot help but be aware that we are in fact meeting three separate people, a wife and mother, an internationally famous writer, and a humanitarian and philanthropist (慈善家). One cannot really get to know Pearl Buck without learning about each of the three. Though honored in her lifetime with the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in addition to the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Pearl Buck as a total human being, not only a famous author, is a captivating subject of study.
What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To offer a criterion of the works of Pearl Buck.
B.To illustrate Pearl Buck's views on Chinese literature.
C.To indicate the background and diverse interests of Pearl Buck.
D.To discuss Pearl Buck's influence on the cultures of the East and the West.
Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961) : one of the best known and most influential American novelists and short-story writers. All his life Hemingway was fascinated by war—in World War I he worked for the Red Cross on the Italian front, in the Spanish Civil War and World War II he served as a war reporter. His experiences and observations provided him with materials and background for many of his best works, in which he concerned himself with mans courage in facing strong physical forces. "Grace under pressure" was Hemingways definition of courage. In his view, life is painful and complex. The only way to survive is to face what comes with honor, dignity, strength, knowledge and endurance. Hemingways overall message, as established in The Old Man and the Sea (1952) , his nearly flawless short novel which gained him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954, is that although life is a lonely, losing battle, it is a struggle that a man can dominate in such a way that his loss has dignity and is itself a victory.