民生银行正式员工待遇:英语：《同步导学》p26

In choosing Steven Chu as his energy secretary（能源部长）, Barack Obama has chosen one of the most prominent U.S. scientists of using science to deal with global warming（全球变暖）.

Steven Chu was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1948. His father was a college teacher. At that time, they were only the third Chinese family to live there.In high school, Chu played tennis and was on the school club. He took his first physics class in his senior year at Garden City High school and became interested in it.

Steven Chu got his first doctor’s degree in maths and physics in 1970. Then he went to California for another doctor’s degree.In 1978, Chu worked in Bell Lab where he developed ways to cool and trap atoms using a laser（用激光冷却和俘获原子）.In 1997, he got the Nobel Prize for physics for this. He left Stanford in 2004,after he was made head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California. As the head of the national lab, Chu has tried to find scientific ways to climate change and soon become a member of the Climate Council working for a new global climate treaty（气候条约）for 2009.

He also insists on the need to end the unnecessary waste of energy. “If I were King of the world, I would spend the next ten years on energy efficiency and conservation（节能和环保）.”he said last year.

On December 11^th , 2008, Barack Obama made him energy secretary. He would be the first Chinese-American to run the department of Energy and devote himself to sustainable（可持续发展的）energy.

42. Who is Steven Chu?

A. He is a Nobel Prize winner for energy. B. He is a visiting scientist in Amarica.

C. He is an American-Chinese.         D. He is a Chinese-American.

43. The underlined word “prominent” in the first paragraph means____.

A.参与竞选的    B.遵守承诺的    C.才能卓越的    D.出身显赫的

44. Which is the right order of the following events about Steven Chu?

a. He was chosen by Barack Obama as US energy secretary.

b. He got the Nobel Prize for his excellent research work.

c. He studied in California for his second doctor’s degree.

d. He became a member of the Climate Council.

e. He acted as the head of the national lab in California.

A. bcdea   B. cbeda    C. dabce     D. acbde

45. In the next part of this passage, the writer would most probably tell us the following EXCEPT_______

A. Obama’s reason of choosing Chu as the energy secretary

B. Chu’s plan and work on energy efficiency and conservation

C. Obama’s new plan to Chinese—Americans

D. both Obama and Chu’s plans and ideas on sustainable energy

参考答案与难题解析

这是连云港市阅读理解D部分的试题。答案：42-45 DCBC。

第43题考查的是学生对生词词义的推测能力。作为全文的首句中出现的“prominent”，它应该能够对Steven Chu起到一个定性的、概括性描述的作用。综合分析整体语篇，A、B、D选项的意思在语篇中均未提及，应逐个剔除。

第45题考查的是学生对整体语篇的分析能力。因为语篇的中心议题就是节能减排和环境保护，与国际关系、美国外交政策无关如果文章继续写下去，应该不会涉及到奥巴马的对华政策问题，所以正确答案只能是C。