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 mence graduate studies .Tsien obtained his doctor degree in 1939 and would remain at Caltech for 20 years, being 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 bee 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 mence in this passage probably means A．make upB．getC．beginD．promise【小题2】Tsien Hsue--shen got married at the age of A．45B．28C．24D．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-dB．d-c-b-aC．d-b-c-aD．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.C
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(答案→)C
解析：本文讲述的是我国导弹之父钱学森的生平介绍。
【小题1】C 猜词题。1936年他去了加州理工学院开始硕士研究。故这个单词等于begin。、
【小题2】D 推断题。根据In1945 Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying以及她死于2009年可推知，他结婚时是34岁。
【小题3】B排列顺序题。根据本文的介绍，可知首先是他早期的生活和教育，接下来他去了美国，所以应是在美国的生涯，然后回到祖国，以及他在祖国度过的余生。
【小题4】B细节判断题。根据In1945 Tsien Hsue--shen married Jiang Ying, the daughter of Jiang Baili.可知B项是错误的。