Jack Andraka from Maryland won the grand prize at the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. It is the largest high school science competition in the world. The Maryland teenager is the youngest winner of the $75,000 prize. He was chosen from among 1,500 students in 70 countries.Jack Andraka invented a test for pancreatic cancer （胰腺癌）. He started to learn it after losing a close family friend to the disease. “I went on the Internet and I found that 85%of all pancreatic cancers are found late, when someone has less than 2% chance of survival（生存）, ” he says, “and I was thinking,’ That’s not right. We should be able to do something.’” He found that early discovery is important to increasing the chances of surviving the disease.
The Maryland teenager asked to work in a laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and was allowed. There he developed a simple paper test, which can recognize the disease in a single drop of blood. His test has proved correct 90% of the time. It also is 100 times more sensitive（敏感的）than other tests. “It costs 3 cents per test, and then it takes only 5 minutes to run,” he said.
Jack’s success wouldn’t have been possible without Anirban Maitra, a professor at Johns Hopkins. He was the only person among the 200 researchers Jack wrote to who showed interest in his project. “I was very surprised that this was a 15-year-old who was writing this. I wanted to meet this clever young man and see what he wanted to talk about and so I called him over for an interview（會面）. ”
Jack worked in Professor Maitra’s laboratory, completing his project in 7 months. The government has given the Maryland teenager patent rights（專利權）to the pancreatic cancer test. He is now talking with companies about developing the test into a simple product.
Whatever happens, the professor believes Jack Andraka’s name is one we will be hearing again over the next 10 to 20 years.
小題1: What made Jack Andraka research pancreatic cancer?
A．A high school task.B．A professor’s encouragement.
C．Losing a friend.D．Doubts about the present test.
小題2: Jack Andraka’s research on pancreatic cancer __________.
A．proved to be very successful
B．was 100 times cheaper than other tests
C．gave patients a 90% chance of survival
D．was finished at the high school of Maryland
小題3: We can infer（推斷）from the text that Jack Andraka __________.
A．left a deep impression on Professor Maitra
B．was thought highly of by companies
C．got support from others easily
D．wasn’t afraid of failure
小題4: The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggested Jack Andraka will __________.
A．become rich
B．make contributions（貢獻）continually
C．get a good job
D．make products to treat cancer
小題5: What’s the best title for the text?
A．Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
B．Jack Andraka’s Fights Against Cancer
C．Research on Pancreatic Cancer
D．Teenager Cancer Researcher

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:A
小題4:B
小題5:D

試題分析：文章主要講了一個叫Jack的男孩因為自己發(fā)明的胰腺癌紙測而獲得了國際科學和工程獎，并得到專利權。
小題1:細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段He started to learn it after losing a close family friend to the disease，可得知Jack Andraka失去了一個朋友后，他決定研究胰腺癌，應選擇C。
小題2:細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第三段There he developed a simple paper test, which can recognize the disease in a single drop of blood. His test has proved correct 90% of the time. It also is 100 times more sensitive（敏感的）than other tests，我們能發(fā)現(xiàn)這個paper test很成功，可得知應選A
小題3:細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第四段Professor說的話：I was very surprised that this was a 15-year-old who was writing this，可知Maitra教授對他印象深刻，所以應該選擇A
小題4:句意理解題。劃線句直譯就是接下來我們還會有機會聽到Jack的名字，即他會繼續(xù)在科學領域做貢獻，所以選B
小題5:標題選擇題。文章主要講了Jack對于胰腺癌的研究，所以應該選D
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