When John Gurdon was 15, he ranked last out of the 250 boys in his grade at biology. He also came in last for every other science subject. His teacher wrote in a _____ , "I believe he has ideas about becoming a _____; form his present performance this is quite foolish. "
Luckily the teacher's words didn't _____ Gurdon's love for science. He kept working hard. He went to labs earlier and left _____ than anyone else. Finally he realized his dream.
On Oct. 8, 2012, 64 years later, the British professor _____ the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka had contributed to the research and therefore _____ the award.
Gurdon got the honor _____ his research into cells and cloning. When he was studying at Oxford, he did some _____ on cells. He took a cell from an adult frog, moved its genes _____ , and put them into an egg cell. The egg cell then ______ into a clone of the adult frog. His research ______ for the first time that every cell in the body contains the same genes.
At that time, many people couldn't ______ Gurdon's idea. But later it helped to ______ Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first cloned mammal in history. It also led to important findings in the ______ use of cells. For example, cells from someone's skin can ______ into any type of tissue in the body. This is good news for those ____ who have diseased or damaged tissue.
Gurdon always remembers the ______ he had when he was 15. He even puts the report on his desk as a daily ______ to himself.
"When you have problems, like an experiment which doesn't work, it's ______ to remind yourself that perhaps you are not so good at your job and the teacher may be ______ ," he said.
However, the facts suggest Gurdon is pretty good indeed.
| 【小题1】 | | A．report | B．letter | C．passage | D．program |
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| 【小题2】 | | A．musician | B．scientist | C．manager | D．millionaire |
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| 【小题3】 | | A．stop | B．condemn | C．inspire | D．reunite |
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| 【小题4】 | | A．sooner | B．later | C．more hurriedly | D．more happily |
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| 【小题5】 | | A．won | B．founded | C．dreamed of | D．applied for |
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| 【小题6】 | | A．received | B．refused | C．collected | D．shared |
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| 【小题7】 | | A．instead of | B．in spite of | C．because of | D．in place of |
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| 【小题8】 | | A．reading | B．writing | C．operation | D．research |
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| 【小题9】 | | A．suddenly | B．secretly | C．carefully | D．casually |
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| 【小题10】 | | A．cut | B．grew | C．changed | D．formed |
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| 【小题11】 | | A．predicted | B．studied | C．proved | D．presented |
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| 【小题12】 | | A．accept | B．admit | C．avoid | D．ignore |
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| 【小题13】 | | A．save | B．discover | C．feed | D．create |
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| 【小题14】 | | A．commercial | B．medical | C．physical | D．illegal |
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| 【小题15】 | | A．turn | B．disappear | C．break | D．send |
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| 【小题16】 | | A．researchers | B．scientists | C．patients | D．doctors |
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| 【小题17】 | | A．friend | B．teacher | C．classmate | D．neighbor |
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| 【小题18】 | | A．regulation | B．routine | C．reminder | D．reward |
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| 【小题19】 | | A．potential | B．complicated | C．rough | D．nice |
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| 【小题20】 | | A．right | B．wrong | C．wise | D．silly |
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