五、选词填空
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范畴:人与自我
主题:生命意义
体裁:记叙文
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阅读下列短文,从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺,意思完整,每词限用一次。
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热考素材 科学精神 Marie Curie is one of the greatest scientists in history.
She conducted pioneering research in physics. She worked closely with her
1. , Pierre Curie, to study an unknown element.
Many people at first doubted the element's existence, but Marie never
2. . Back then, their workplace was only a cold and leaky old shed with no advanced research equipment. She always faced many failures in her experiments. After years of hard work, she finally 3. that radium was real. Her research on radiation changed the entire world.
During World War Ⅰ, Marie wanted to support her country's 4. . She refused to use her research to develop weapons. Instead, she set up mobile X-ray clinics to help wounded soldiers, saving thousands of lives. To send these 5. to the front line, she even learned to drive a car by herself.
biologist person ahead of if educate
Marie was a selfless person. She never applied for a patent for radium, allowing everyone to

本文讲述玛丽·居里是伟大的科学家，她与丈夫发现镭，不惧艰苦坚持研究。一战中她用X光救助士兵，
1. husband “work with ...”意为“与……一起工作”，这个短语中with后通常接人物，故填入 husband。
2. gave up 上文提及“许多人怀疑这种元素的存在”，下文表示转折：但玛丽从未放弃。发生在过去的事件，用一般过去时，故填过去式。
3. proved 她终于证明了镭是真实存在的。发生在过去的事件，用一般过去时，故填入过去式 proved。
4. defence 第一次世界大战期间，玛丽想要支援祖国的国防。在名词所有格 country's 后填入名词 defence。
5. clinics 为了把这些诊所送到前线，她甚至自己学会了开车。clinic 是可数名词，在 these 后用复数 clinics。