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October 31, 2009, California
Tsien Hsue-shen, PhD'39, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, died on October 31, He was 98.
Tsien, born in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, graduated from the National Qinghua University in 1934 and in August of 1935 he left China to study at the Massachusetts Institute Technology. In 1936 he went to the California Institute of Technology to commence graduate studies .Tsien obtained his doctor degree in 1939 and would remain at Caltech for 20 years, becoming the Goddard Professor and establishing a reputation as one of the leading rocket scientists in the United States.
In 1943, Tsien and two others in the Caltech rocketry group drafted the first document to use the name Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During the Second World War, he was amongst the other scientists participated the "Manhattan Project" .After World War II he served as a consultant to the  United States Army Air Force. During this time, Conlonel Tsien worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X--20Dyna-Soar which would later be the inspiration for the Space Shuttle. In1945 Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Jiang Baili--one of the Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai--shen's leading military strategists. But in 1950, the Chinese-born scientist was accused of harboring Communist sympathies and stripped of his security clearance.
In September 1955 he was permitted to leave for China, where Tsien resumed his research, founded the Institute of Mechanics, and went on to become the father of China's missile program, a trusted member of the government and Party's inner circle, and the nation's most honored scientist, Tsien retired in 1991 and has maintained a low public profile in Beijing, China. The PRC government launched its manned space program in 1992 and used Tsien's research as the basis for the Long March rocket which successfully launched the Shenzhou V mission in October of 2003.The elderly Tsien was able to watch China's first manned space mission on television from his hospital bed.
In his late years, since the 1980s, Tsien devoted himself to spirituality research, and advocated scientific investigation of traditional Chinese medicine, Qigong and "special human body functions".
【小题1】          The underlined word "commence" in this passage probably means ____

A．make up

B．get

C．begin

D．promise

【小题2】          Tsien Hsue--shen got married at the age of ______

A．45

B．28

C．24

D．34

【小题3】          What is the right order of the events related to Tsien Hsue--shen ?
a. his later life   
b. return to China   
c. career in the U.S.A 
d. his early life and education 

A．a-b-c-d

B．d-c-b-a

C．d-b-c-a

D．c-b-d-a

【小题4】          Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．Tsien Hsue--shen got a doctor's degree in 1939.

B．Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shen.

C．Tsien Hsue-shen has made a contribution to the Space Shuttle.

D．Tsien Hsue-shen was interested in traditional Chinese medicine, qigong and "special human body functions" in his later life.

Answer 1

【小题1】          C
【小题2】          D
【小题3】          B
【小题4】          B

解析试题分析：
【小题1】      本题为猜测词义题。根据下文Tsien obtained his doctor degree in 1939可知，他在California Institute of Technology是要开始他的研究生的学习。故答案选C。
【小题2】      细节计算题。由文章的开始可知钱学森死于2009年，享年98岁可推算出他出生于1911年。他与蒋英于1945年结婚，可计算出他结婚时是34岁，故答案选D。
【小题3】      时间排序题。按照时间的顺序很容易就会得出答案选B。
【小题4】      判断正误题。由文章的第二段可知A是正确的；由第三段During this time, Conlonel Tsien worked on designing an intercontinental space plane. His work would inspire the X--20Dyna-Soar which would later be the inspiration for the Space Shuttle.可知钱学森对于航天飞机工程做出了一定的贡献，故C是正确的；由最后一段可以钱学森在晚年致力于于中药，气功等的研究，故D是正确的。由第三段的In1945 Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Jiang Baili可知B是错误的，所以本题选择B。
考点：本篇文章是一篇新闻报道。
点评：一篇新闻报道，介绍了钱学森在美国的求学，工作，经历和他的晚年生活以及他对于航天工程所作出的巨大贡献。看懂题干，通读全文，去文章中寻找有关细节的答案。