2019-2020学年浙江省宁波市慈溪市高三(上)月考英语试卷(12月份).pdf

2019-2020 学年浙江省宁波市慈溪市高三（上）月考英语 试卷（ 12 月份） 一、阅读理解（本大题共 10 小题，共 25.0 分） A John B ． Goodenough， an engineering professor from the University of Texas at Austin ， has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry-jointly with M ． Stanley Whittingham ， a chemistry professor from the State University of New York and Japan's Akira Yoshino ， a professor of Meijo University-for the development of lithium-ion batteries （锂电 池）． According to the Nobel Committee ， the three scientists "have created the right conditions for a wireless and fossil fuel-free society ， and so brought the greatest benefit to humankind" ． Goodenough ， born in 1922 ， identified and developed the key materials that can power portable electronics ， leading to the wireless revolution ． Today ， batteries containing Goodenough's innovations are used worldwide for mobile phones ， power tools ， laptops ， tablets and other wireless devices ， as well as electric vehicles ． Goodenough received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University and a doctorate in physics from the university of Chicago ． He beat the odds against him， first overcoming dyslexia （阅读困难症） as a child，and then the claim of a teacher who told the doctoral student in his 20s that he had started too late to be successful in physics ． He began his career in 1952 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory ， where he laid the groundwork for the development of random-access memory RAM for the （ ） digital computer ． After MIT ， Goodenough became a professor and head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford where in 1979 he discovered it would be possible to store energy in rechargeable batteries through lithiu