高中英语牛津版高一下学期02

[09:44.05]Reading
[09:48.49]The Nonel Prize
[09:51.54]Al fred Nobel was a Swedish born inventor.
[09:56.58]When he died in 1896 he left a large estate
[10:02.64]The estate was then worth about nine million American dollars.
[10:07.92]This money laterbe came the original source of the world famous Nobel Prize
[10:14.58]Nobel said in his will that prizes should onour
[10:19.83]'the most important discoveriesor inventions' in physics, chemistry,
[10:26.49]physiology or medicine and 'the most outstanding works' in literature.
[10:33.44]Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been presented tothe winners on December 10
[10:40.81]the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
[10:45.49]At the Award Ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall,
[10:50.03]the King of Sweden hands each winner a diploma and a medal.
[10:55.78]The Ceremony is followed by a banquet for about 1,300 people
[11:02.02]Among the guests of honour are the Nobel Prize winners and their families,
[11:07.79]the King and the Queen, and many well known leaders inscience and culture.
[11:13.85]Two hundred and fifty young students are also honoured
[11:18.71]with invitations tothis grand occasion.
[11:22.66]Listening
[11:27.02]When did they do their best work?
[11:35.48]1 Charles Darwin was ____when he made the historic journey on the Beagle
[11:43.03]  and____when he formed Theory of Evolution.
[11:48.08]2 Albert Einstein was____when he developed three major scientific ideas,
[11:55.62]among them the Special Theory of Relativity.
[12:00.38]3 Paul A.M.Dirac,one of the most powerful minds in theoretical physics,
[12:08.53] received the Nobel Prize at____.
[12:12.66]4 Biologist James Dewey Watson was ____when he did his prize winning research
[12:23.42]whith Francis Crick.
[12:26.66]5 Throughout the first seventy years of Nobel,
[12:33.11]12% of the winners did their prize-winning research
[12:38.57]before they reached the age of____and a  total of 34% before ____.
[12:46.93]The average age of the winners was between 35 and 40.