题目内容：

    Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Professor Strickland is one of the recipients( 受领者) of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 with Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time. They published this Nobel-winning research in 1985 when Strickland was a PhD student at the University of Rochester in New York state. Together they paved the way toward the most intense laser pulses ever created.

Professor Donna Strickland is only the third woman ever to have won a Nobel Prize in physics. She and her fellow winners were honored for what the Nobel Committee called ground-breaking inventions in laser physics. Professor Strickland devised a way to use lasers as very precise drilling or cutting tools. Millions of eye operations are performed every year with these sharpest of laser beams.

---“How surprising do you think it is that you’re the third woman to win this prize? ”

---“Well, that is surprising, isn’t it? I think that’s the story of Maria that people want to talk about --- that why should it take 60 years? There are so many women out there doing fantastic research, so why does it take so long to get recognized? ”

Physics still has one of the largest gender gaps in science. One recent study concluded that at the current rates it would be more than two centuries until there were equal numbers of senior male and female researchers in the field.

The last woman to win a physics Nobel was German-born Maria Goeppert-Mayer for her discoveries about the nuclei of atoms. Before that it was Marie Curie, who shared the 1903 prize with her husband, Pierre. This year’s winners hope that breaking this half century hiatus will mean the focus in future will be on the research, rather than the gender of the researcher.

1.Which of the following best explains “ground-breaking” underlined in Paragraph 2?

A. active B. talented

C. creative D. awesome

2.What do we know about Professor Strickland’s achievement?

A. She created the most intense laser pulses by herself.

B. She advocated equality between man and women.

C. She discovered the nuclei of atoms with her husband.

D. She invented a way of using lasers as accurate cutting tools .

3.When was the second Nobel Prize in physics awarded to woman?

A. in 1963 B. in 1985

C. in 1903 D. in 1958

4.What can be inferred from the statements in paragraph 4 ?

A. Woman’s achievements in physics are as great as man’s.

B. Woman’s achievements in physics are more and more fantastic.

C. Maria’s discoveries resulted from her long time research.

D. Gender discrimination still exists in the field of science research.