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October 31, 2009, California

     Tsien Hsue-shen, PhD'39, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died on October 31, He was 98.

     Tsien, born in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, graduated from the National Qinghua University in 1934 and in August of 1935 he left China to study at the Massachusetts Institute Technology. In 1936 he went to the California Institute of Technology to commence graduate studies .Tsien obtained his doctor degree in 1939 and would remain at Caltech for 20 years, becoming the Goddard Professor and establishing a reputation as one of the leading rocket scientists in the United States.

   In 1943, Tsien and two others in the Caltech rocketry group drafted the first document to use the name Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During the Second World War, he was amongst the other scientists participated the "Manhattan Project" .After World War II he served as a consultant to the  United States Army Air Force. During this time, Conlonel Tsien worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X--20Dyna-Soar which would later be the inspiration for the Space Shuttle. In1945 Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Jiang Baili--one of the Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai--shen's leading military strategists. But in 1950, the Chinese-born scientist was accused of harboring Communist sympathies and stripped of his security clearance.

   In September 1955 he was permitted to leave for China, where Tsien resumed his research, founded the Institute of Mechanics, and went on to become the father of China's missile program, a trusted member of the government and Party's inner circle, and the nation's most honored scientist, Tsien retired in 1991 and has maintained a low public profile in Beijing, China. The PRC government launched its manned space program in 1992 and used Tsien's research as the basis for the Long March rocket which successfully launched the Shenzhou V mission in October of 2003.The elderly Tsien was able to watch China's first manned space mission on television from his hospital bed.

   In his late years, since the 1980s, Tsien devoted himself to spirituality research, and advocated scientific investigation of traditional Chinese medicine, Qigong and "special human body functions".

【小題1】           The underlined word "commence" in this passage probably means ____

A. make up    B. get    C. begin   D. promise

【小題2】           Tsien Hsue--shen got married at the age of ______

A.45          B.28     C. 24      D.34

【小題3】           What is the right order of the events related to Tsien Hsue--shen ?

a. his later life   

b. return to China   

c. career in the U.S.A 

d. his early life and education 

A. a-b-c-d    B. d-c-b-a     C. d-b-c-a     D. c-b-d-a

【小題4】           Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Tsien Hsue--shen got a doctor's degree in 1939.

B. Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shen.

C. Tsien Hsue-shen has made a contribution to the Space Shuttle.

D. Tsien Hsue-shen was interested in traditional Chinese medicine, qigong and "special human body functions" in his later life.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

【小題1】           C

【小題2】           D

【小題3】           B

【小題4】           B

【解析】

試題分析：

【小題1】       本題為猜測詞義題。根據下文Tsien obtained his doctor degree in 1939可知，他在California Institute of Technology是要開始他的研究生的學習。故答案選C。

【小題2】       細節計算題。由文章的開始可知錢學森死于2009年，享年98歲可推算出他出生于1911年。他與蔣英于1945年結婚，可計算出他結婚時是34歲，故答案選D。

【小題3】       時間排序題。按照時間的順序很容易就會得出答案選B。

【小題4】       判斷正誤題。由文章的第二段可知A是正確的；由第三段During this time, Conlonel Tsien worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X--20Dyna-Soar which would later be the inspiration for the Space Shuttle.可知錢學森對于航天飛機工程做出了一定的貢獻，故C是正確的；由最后一段可以錢學森在晚年致力于于中藥，氣功等的研究，故D是正確的。由第三段的In1945 Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Jiang Baili可知B是錯誤的，所以本題選擇B。

考點：本篇文章是一篇新聞報道。

點評：一篇新聞報道，介紹了錢學森在美國的求學，工作，經歷和他的晚年生活以及他對于航天工程所作出的巨大貢獻。看懂題干，通讀全文，去文章中尋找有關細節的答案。