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(1)细节理解题。根据第二段的Education was important to the Wu family,which influenced young Wu the most.Her mother,a teacher,and her father,an engineer,encouraged her to pursue science and mathematics from an early age. (教育对吴氏家族非常重要,这对其子吴影响最大。她的母亲是一名教师,父亲是一名工程师,从小就鼓励她追求科学和数学。)可知,在吴建雄的早期教育中,她的家庭文化起着最重要的作用。故选B。
(2)细节理解题。根据第二段She began her study in one of the first schools founded by her father,and then went to Suzhou School.Later she attended Shanghai Gong Xue public school for one year.In 1930,Wu entered Nanjing University,where she first pursued mathematics but quickly switched her major to physics,inspired by a famous female scientist,Marie Curie.She graduated with top honors at the head of her class with a B.S.degree in 1934.(她开始在父亲创办的第一所学校学习,然后去了苏州学校。后来,她在上海公学公立学校就读了一年。1930年,吴进入南京大学,在那里她第一次学习数学,但在著名女科学家玛丽•居里的启发下,她很快把专业转到了物理。1934年,她以优异的成绩以全班第一的成绩毕业,获得了学士学位。)可知,吴建雄在南京大学转专业,因为她想向一位伟大的化学家学习。故选A。
(3)推理判断题。根据第四段 After leaving the Manhattan Project in 1945,Wu spent the rest of her career in the Department of Physics at Columbia.She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment,the discovery of which resulted in her colleagues Tsung﹣Dao Lee and Chen﹣Ning Yang winning the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics,while Wu was not included.Wu was aware of the injustice and at an MIT conference in October of 1964,she stated "I wonder whether the physics symbols have any preference for either male or female treatment."(1945年离开曼哈顿计划后,吴在哥伦比亚大学物理系度过了余生。她最出名的是进行了吴的实验,这一发现使她的同事李宗道和杨振宁获得了1957年的诺贝尔物理学奖,而吴没有被包括在内。吴意识到这种不公正,在1964年10月的麻省理工学院会议上,她说:"我想知道物理符号是否对男性或女性的待遇有任何偏好。")可知,吴建雄要为女性争取权利。故选A。
(4)文章类型题。通读全文并根据第一段的Chien﹣Shiung Wu was a Chinese﹣American nuclear physicist who has been recognized as "the First Lady of Physics" and "Queen of Nuclear Research".Her research contributions include work on the Manhattan Project and the Wu experiment.(吴健雄是美籍华裔核物理学家,被公认为"物理学第一夫人"和"核研究女王"。她的研究贡献包括曼哈顿计划和钨实验。)可知,文章主要介绍了美籍华裔核物理学家吴建雄的科学研究成就,因此这是一篇介绍科学领域著名人物的说明文。故选A。