题目

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.For anybody who ever failed a maths test, something marvelous happened in Stockholm on December 10, 2000. A soft-spoken fellow from Kansas — a guy who was turned down by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) because his maths scores were too low and who never had much formal physics training — received the Nobel Prize in physics. This is slightly ironical, because Jack St Clair Kilby is not a physicist.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was willing to overlook that minor detail, though, because Kilby did, after all, come up with the most valuable invention of the past half-century: the microchip. Jack Kilby's idea sparked the information age. The tiny silicon chip at the heart of all digital devices has arguably become the most important industrial commodity since crude oil. Without the chip, there could be no personal computers or mobile phones, no Internet or PlayStations. The semiconductor integrated circuit has changed the world as fundamentally as did the light bulb, the telephone and the horseless carriage. But somehow the man who made the microchip has never achieved the recognition that Edison, Bell and Ford enjoyed. Thanks to the Nobel Prize, at age 78, Jack Kilby finally received the attention he deserved.16. Kilby is a(n) ____.A. AmericanB. FrenchmanC. SwedishD. Englishman

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. For anybody who ever failed a maths test, something marvelous happened in Stockholm on December 10, 2000. A soft-spoken fellow from Kansas — a guy who was turned down by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) because his maths scores were too low and who never had much formal physics training — received the Nobel Prize in physics. This is slightly ironical, because Jack St Clair Kilby is not a physicist. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was willing to overlook that minor detail, though, because Kilby did, after all, come up with the most valuable invention of the past half-century: the microchip. Jack Kilby's idea sparked the information age. The tiny silicon chip at the heart of all digital devices has arguably become the most important industrial commodity since crude oil. Without the chip, there could be no personal computers or mobile phones, no Internet or PlayStations. The semiconductor integrated circuit has changed the world as fundamentally as did the light bulb, the telephone and the horseless carriage. But somehow the man who made the microchip has never achieved the recognition that Edison, Bell and Ford enjoyed. Thanks to the Nobel Prize, at age 78, Jack Kilby finally received the attention he deserved. 16. Kilby is a(n) ____. A. American B. Frenchman C. Swedish D. Englishman

题目解答

答案

我们来一步一步分析这道题目。 题目是：**Kilby is a(n) ____**，要求我们选择一个合适的国籍来填空。 选项是： A. American B. Frenchman C. Swedish D. Englishman 我们需要从文章中找到关于 Jack St Clair Kilby 国籍的信息。 第一步：寻找文章中提到 Kilby 出身或国籍的关键词。 文章第一段中提到： > A soft-spoken fellow from Kansas — a guy who was turned down by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) because his maths scores were too low... 关键词是“from Kansas”——堪萨斯州。堪萨斯州是美国的一个州。 所以，“a fellow from Kansas” 意思是“来自堪萨斯州的一个人”，这表明他是美国人。 第二步：确认其他信息是否支持这一点。 - 他被麻省理工学院（MIT）拒绝，MIT 是美国著名的大学。 - 他获得诺贝尔物理学奖，但文章强调他“不是物理学家”，而是发明了微芯片。 - 文章没有提到他来自法国、瑞典或英国。 - “Kansas” 明确位于美国。 第三步：排除错误选项。 - B. Frenchman（法国人）——文中无任何信息支持。 - C. Swedish（瑞典人）——诺贝尔奖在瑞典颁发，但他是获奖者，不是瑞典人。 - D. Englishman（英国人）——无依据。 - A. American（美国人）——来自美国堪萨斯州，合理。 因此，正确答案是 A. American。 **答案：A. American** \boxed{A}

解析

本题考查根据文章细节判断人物国籍的能力。解题关键在于定位文中明确提及人物背景的信息。文章开篇提到Jack Kilby来自Kansas，并被美国麻省理工学院（MIT）拒绝，这些信息直接指向他的国籍。需注意排除干扰选项，如诺贝尔奖颁奖地瑞典与获奖者国籍无关。

  1. 定位关键信息：
    文章第一段明确提到“a soft-spoken fellow from Kansas”，Kansas是美国的一个州，因此Kilby是美国人。
  2. 排除干扰选项：
    • B. Frenchman、C. Swedish、D. Englishman均无对应信息支持。
    • 诺贝尔奖由瑞典颁发，但获奖者国籍需根据文中描述判断，而非颁奖地。