I don’t ever want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it’s like to work in a field dominated (控制) by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space-time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics, it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my PhD at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement --- jobs, research papers, awards --- was viewed through the lens of gender (性別) politics. So were my failures.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all annoyance. I don’t talk about that any more. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Bamard, a women’s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 45 students in my class were women. You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don’t dismiss those concerns. Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.
小題1:Why doesn’t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?
A．She is unhappy working in male-dominated fields.
B．She is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination.
C．She is not good at telling stories of the kind at all.
D．She finds space research more important than that.
小題2:We learn from Paragraph 2 that people would contribute the author’s failures to _______.
A．the very fact that she is just a woman
B．her involvement in gender politics
C．the very fact that she is just a scientist
D．her over-confidence as a female scientist
小題3:Why does the author feel satisfied when talking about her class?
A．Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.
B．Her students’ achievement has brought back her confidence.
C．Her female students can do just better than male students.
D．More female students now love science than before.
小題4:What does the image that the author presents to her students suggest?
A．Women students needn’t have the concerns of her generation.
B．Women have more troubles on their way to academic success.
C．Women can balance a career in science and having a family.
D．Women now have no problems pursuing a science career.

小題1:B
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：作者通過比較自己原來所處的年代的情況和現(xiàn)在的情況，告訴我們現(xiàn)在又越來越多的女生開始學(xué)習(xí)科學(xué)，這讓作者很自豪。同時作者還給這些女生提出了自己的建議：要在科學(xué)和家庭之間取得平衡。
小題1:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第三段. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn’t want to deal with gender issues. After all, I don’t study sociology or political theory.可知她已經(jīng)厭倦了這樣的話題。故B正確。
小題2:A 推理題。根據(jù)第二段后三行But while earning my PhD at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement --- jobs, research papers, awards --- was viewed through the lens of gender (性別) politics. So were my failures.可知在這個時候很多問題開始困擾作者，她取得的成績，她的工作，論文，甚至是她的失敗。故A正確。
小題3:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章第4段You cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer 45. I know some of my students worry how they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children.可知現(xiàn)在作者班級里有很多女學(xué)生在學(xué)習(xí)科學(xué)，這讓作者很自豪。因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在學(xué)習(xí)科學(xué)的學(xué)生比以前要多了很多。
小題4:C 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后3行Instead, I have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. And in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. And that’s a sight worth talking about.說明作者給她的學(xué)生的建議是要在學(xué)習(xí)和家庭生活之間取得平衡。故C項(xiàng)正確。
點(diǎn)評：作者通過比較自己原來所處的年代的情況和現(xiàn)在的情況，告訴我們現(xiàn)在又越來越多的女生開始學(xué)習(xí)科學(xué)。推理題要求在理解原文表面文字信息的基礎(chǔ)上，做出一定判斷和推論，從而得到文章的隱含意義和深層意義。推理題所涉及的內(nèi)容可能是文中某一句話，也可是某幾句話，但做題的指導(dǎo)思想都是以文字信息為依據(jù)，既不能做出在原文中找不到文字根據(jù)的推理，也不能根據(jù)表面文字信息做多步推理，要根據(jù)原文表面文字信息一步推出的答案。
練習(xí)冊系列答案
相關(guān)習(xí)題

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Loren Gladstone of Toronto is 58, but thinking over how to bequeath (遺贈) his digital property(財產(chǎn)). Doing the paperwork after his parents' death was a challenge. “When my time comes, I wonder if my children will even know what paper is，” he says. As a software developer, his virtual property is both valuable and vital to his business. That reflects a problem. Online lives have increasing economic and emotional value. But testamentary (遺囑) laws offer confusing and incomplete ways of bequeathing and inheriting (繼承) them.
Digital property may include software, websites, downloaded content, online gaming identities, social-media accounts and even e-mails. In Britain alone holdings of digital music may be worth over ￡9 billion ($14 billion). A fifth of respondents to a Chinese local-newspaper survey said they had over 5，000 yuan($790) of digital property. And value does not lie only in money.“Anyone with kids under 14 years old probably has two prints of them and the rest are in online galleries，”says Nathan Lustig of Entrustet, a company that helps people manage digital property.
Service providers have different rules—and few state them clearly in their terms and conditions. Many give users a personal right to use an account, but nobody else, even after death. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Gmail (run by Google) will provide copies of e-mails to an executor (遺囑執(zhí)行人). Music downloaded via iTunes is held under a license which can be abolished on death. Apple declined to comment on the record on this or other policies. All e-mail and data on its iCloud service are deleted on the death of the owner.
This has led to cases to court in America. In 2004 the family of Justin Ellsworth, an army man killed in Iraq, took Yahoo! to court in Michigan to get copies of his e-mails. This year, a court in Oregon ruled that another American mother whose son had died could use her dead son's password to enter his Facebook account for a short period. Now five American states have made laws giving executors control over the social-networking accounts of dead users.
But this raises the subject of privacy. Passing music on is one thing; not everyone may want their relatives to read their e-mails. Colin Pearson, a London-based lawyer, says access should come only with a clear provision in a will.
But laws, wills and password safes may be contrary to the providers' terms of service, especially when the executor is in one country and the data in another. Headaches for the living and lots of lovely work for lawyers.
小題1:Why does Loren begin to think over how to bequeath his digital property at the age of 58?
A．Because he is afraid his children don't know what paper is.
B．Because there's no complete law dealing with digital property.
C．Because his digital property is of great value and importance.
D．Because he is worried his children will be taken to court.
小題2:Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A．Digital property is assessed in terms of nothing except money.
B．No laws in America have been made to deal with digital property.
C．The relatives may read the e－mail of the dead without permission.
D．Lawyers can make money through cases about digital property.
小題3:Facebook, Google and Apple have a similar rule that ________．
A．users are offered accounts used by nobody else except users themselves
B．relatives of the dead may close an account or use it at their own will
C．the executor may enter the e－mail and read it by themselves at any time
D．the data downloaded by the dead will be copied and then deleted from net
小題4:Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A．Digital InformationB．Testamentary Laws
C．Deathless DataD．Vital Property

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Fifty-two years ago in the USA, a little black girl named Ruby Bridges arrived at her new primary school. The school was in New Orleans, Louisiana.
As she walked toward the school’s front door, an angry crowd of people shouted at her. United States marshals walked with her. A marshal is a police officer. They were there to protect the first grader. That’s because the people didn’t want Ruby to go inside the school. But the 6-year-old walked into the school anyway. As she did, she marched into history books.
The day was Nov. 14, 1960. On that morning, little Ruby became one of the first African Americans to attend an all-white primary school in the South.
Before then, the law in many states said that black children could not attend the same schools as white children. People of different races also had to use separate public restrooms. It was called segregation. That is when people of different races are kept separate.
U.S. leaders worked to end segregation. They helped bring civil rights to all Americans. Those are the rights mean that all people should be treated equally. A few months before Ruby started school, a federal court (聯(lián)邦法庭) had just ordered an end to school segregation in New Orleans.
By the time Ruby started the second grade, there were no more angry people outside her school. There were other African American students in her class. Today, children of all races go to school together.
Bridges said she was never scared to go to school during the first grade. She wasn’t really afraid and she didn’t really know what was going on at the time.
小題1:Why was Ruby Bridges famous in the American history?
A．She served on the U.S. federal court.
B．She got along well with the U.S. marshals.
C．She helped end school segregation in New Orleans.
D．She brought all rights to the Americans with U.S. leaders.
小題2:Which of the following is about “segregation” (in Paragraph 4)?
A．White and black children couldn’t study in the same school.
B．All people should have the right to be treated equally.
C．Different races can use the same public convenience.
D．Students of all races should be able to attend school together.
小題3:What do you think of the U.S. leaders’ work to end segregation?
A．Disappointing.B．Acceptable.
C．Successful. D．Confusing.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

People go fishing for many reasons, for one they like the sport of it, reeling in (搜卷軸拉近魚鉤) the big catch after a long day of work or just having a few drinks on the water with some friends and letting all the stress just go. Whatever the reasons may be, it is absolutely therapeutic.
People in the south sometimes do a strange type of fishing where they reach their arm inside a hole in the bank and pull out cat fish the size of a boat. There is one form called jug fishing where you get a milk jug or water jug and tie a heavy fishing line with a big hook, put on a small brim（容器的口）and throw it in the water. The next morning you get up and see what’s on the hook. There is fly fishing which is with a lighter string and top water jigs（滾鉤）such as bugs that lay on the top of the water until the trout（鱒魚）comes and takes it. It takes longer to reel them in because the line is so light and the fish are heavy.
Ice fishing is a dangerous kind of fishing in the north. You cut a hole in the ice, drop in your bait（誘餌）and wait for a fish to bite. You have to be careful that the fish doesn’t pull your line into the side of the ice and snap it. That is one problem with ice fishing but the fish are usually bigger and worth the trouble.
Going out on the lake with a couple of friends or alone with a couple of drinks and a fishing pole can be the most stress releasing thing you can do sometimes. Just to feel the waves rocking the boat and a good conversation is all the therapy you will need sometimes. Catching a fish is always a great bonus（獎勵）.
小題1: The underlined word “therapeutic” may be replaced by ________.
A．beneficialB．caring C．curableD．healthy
小題2: What is the second paragraph mainly about?
A．Some characters about fishing
B．Some different fishing in the south
C．Three common fishing in America
D．People’s creative fishing in the north
小題3:How many ways of fishing have been introduced in the passage?
A．Two B．Three C．Four D．Five
小題4:What problem should people pay attention to when going ice fishing?
A．Dropping in the bait several times
B．Waiting for the fish more patiently
C．Cutting a big enough hole on the ice
D．Taking care of the lines of their poles
小題5: Fishing is becoming more and more popular mainly because _______.
A．it is a good way to harvest much fish from the rivers
B．it can help people have a good time with their friends
C．it can help people relax themselves to the fullest
D．it is a good way to exercise the strength of their arms

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：完形填空

Life in the twenty-first century will be very   50 . Many changes will take place, but   51  will the changes be.
The population is growing   52 . There will be many   53  in the world and most of them will live   54  than people in the twentieth century.
Computers will be much smaller and   55  and there will be at least one in every   56 . And   57  studies will be one of the important subjects in school then.
People will work   58  and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling.   59  will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to   60  countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our   61 , too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead, they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be   62 . Work in the future will be different, too.   63  and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this,   64  will not have enough work to do .This will be a problem.
小題1:
A．interestingB．hardC．differentD．beautiful
小題2:
A．why B．howC．when D．what
小題3:
A．slowlyB．fastC．quietlyD．suddenly
小題4:
A．peopleB．workersC．scientistsD．doctors
小題5:
A．long B．longerC．happy D．lucky
小題6:
A．more useful B．useful C．helpful D．less useful
小題7:
A．hospitalB．factoryC．homeD．town
小題8:
A．scienceB．maths C．English D．computer
小題9:
A．fewer hoursB．more hours
C．eight hoursD．more than eight hours
小題10:
A．Seeing doctorsB．Going to the cinema
C．Shopping D．Travelling
小題11:
A．richB．otherC．poorD．small
小題12:
A．foodB．clothesC．fruitD．drinks
小題13:
A．fatter B．thinnerC．healthierD．more pleased
小題14:
A．Safe B．EasyC．SimpleD．Dangerous
小題15:
A．a(chǎn) few peopleB．a(chǎn)ll the peopleC．many peopleD．some people

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

All you need to participate in home exchange is a house! You don't need to compare values of the houses or search for a swapping partner in the case of a home similar to yours. It just requires identifying a home where you and your family can stay comfortably in the place you wish to visit. You need to search for a person or a family with whom you would be comfortable exchanging your home with，for a short period of time. In home exchange，you would be taking care of other people's home，as well as enjoying the country while they would be doing the same from your home.
People who have traveled a lot would know that the most expensive part of traveling is paying hotel bills. In many cases, vacations cannot last for long mainly because of the high accommodation (住房) expenses. Holiday home exchange is one of the most simple and intelligent ways to cut down an accommodation expenses. It is an equal trade for bath the families and enables both to enjoy the advantages of a home while traveling to another country.
Home exchanges have become very popular in major cities in the United Kingdom as it allows you to benefit from time-share. Mostly, people participating in home exchanges prefer to involve their friends or neighbors to entertain their visitors, by providing the home exchange visitors with information regarding the local sightseeing attractions. Many families with children try to swap houses with families who have children of the similar age group. It saves time and energy that is often exhausted in carrying around a number of toys and equipment. The individual traveler often finds house swapping a great way of relaxing in the comforts of a home after a tiring day of sightseeing and can spend more time to get to know the area better.
小題1:The most suitable title for the passage is__________.
A．Home Exchange for Your Holiday
B．How to Find the Best House
C．Everyone Loves Exchanging Homes
D．Tips for Your Trip
小題2:What does the underlined word “swapping” mean in Line 2? __________
A．participatingB．enjoyingC．exchangingD．identifying
小題3:What's the main reason for people exchanging homes during the holiday?
A．To experience other people's lifestyles.
B．To get to know new neighbors and make new friends.
C．To avoid paying expensive hotel bills while traveling
D．To get more information from locals.
小題4:We can learn from the last paragraph that___________.
A．more families prefer to exchange homes than individual travelers.
B．families with kids are more likely to exchange homes with families with kids.
C．it is difficult for individual travelers to find partners to exchange their homes.
D．the individual travelers love to introduce their friends and neighbors to the visitors.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Facebook means never having to say goodbye. The social media website has earned a reputation for reconnecting old friends. Last week, a guy whom I hadn’t seen since my bachelor party five years ago sent me a friend request. I accepted and waited for “Easy E” to send me a greeting of some kind. He had sought me out, after all.
I learned from his profile that he was in a relationship and had a son. However, I’m pretty sure we won’t ever write wall-to-wall, let alone e-mail each other. But he’ll remain a friend of online until one of us makes a point of removing the other from his official list.
My pool of friends consists of family members, college buddies, co-workers from past and present, and friends of friends. There are 35 in all. If I spent some time uploading old e-mail addresses, I’m confident that I could increase my friend count actually.
A person could make a mission out of reconnecting with childhood friends, former classmates, distant cousins, and those one would like to get to know better. And some people can even handle hundreds of on-screen relationships, keeping up with the daily happenings of their small army of companions. After all, there are worse fates than having too many friends.
Thanks to e-mail, the inability to schedule face-to-face meetings no longer means a friendship must come to a close. But even with e-mail, people will lose touch if one or both parties stop writing back. That’s normal. People move from school to school, job to job, city to city. You never have to feel guilty for breaking away.
Every day, the masterminds of Web 2.0 find new ways of making human communication easier. However, convenience can be a walking stick. Some things shouldn’t be simplified. When it comes to friendship, there can be no shortcuts.
小題1:According to Paragraph 1, the website is famous because       .
A．it has an interesting name of “Facebook”
B．it can send people a greeting of some kind
C．it helps people get in touch with old friends
D．it reminds people of events in the past
小題2:From the second paragraph we can learn that the writer       .
A．would write to the friend quite often
B．did get some information about the friend
C．a(chǎn)sked the friend to e-mail him
D．would keep in touch with the friend forever
小題3:Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A．The author communicates with all the 35 friends by e-mails.
B．There are 35 people in the author’s list of friends right now.
C．The list of 35 friends doesn’t include the old e-mail addresses.
D．It is not difficult for the author to increase his friend count.
小題4:What does the writer mean by saying “However, convenience can be a walking stick”？
A．The masterminds of Web 2.0 also sell walking sticks online.
B．Taking a walking stick is a new way of making friends online.
C．Convenience is dangerous for human communication.
D．Convenience is not really good for human communication.

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

Poverty today is a major global issue．Although there are all kinds of definitions used to explain it, in simple words, it means the inability of a person to even get his basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, safe drinking water, health and education．Poverty can be found in each and every comer of the world, although the causes may differ from country to country．Given below are the main causes of poverty in the world today．
Overpopulation is one of the main causes behind the threatening of poverty on an individual level as well as a social level．This is simple math: If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor．
Another theory which is used as an explanation for poverty is lack of education．If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low．Lack of education means lack of employment opportunities, thus leading to unemployment coupled with poverty in the future．
Moving away from one's own homeland to another city or country in search of employment leads to poverty too．It may take these people a lot of time to find jobs．Meanwhile they live in bad conditions．The cost of living in the city or country is most of the time too high for them．
There may be other causes of poverty like the change in business．For example, in America, a couple of decades ago, heavy industry flourished, which employed a lot of African-American people．But now, the focus is more on information technology and health care, both of which employ only skilled and trained people．This has led to unemployment among African-Americans．
Poverty has many ill effects on society．That's why steps should be taken to get rid of it!
小題1:What's the meaning of the underlined word "flourished" in Paragraph 5?
（No more than 5 words）
小題2:Why is overpopulation a cause of poverty today? （No more thanl2 words）
小題3:What's the situation of education m underdeveloped countries? （No more than 8 words）
小題4:What does the passage mainly talk about?（No more than 10 words）
小題5:In your opinion, what's the most significant cause of poverty today? Please give your reason．（No more than 25 words）

查看答案和解析>>

科目：高中英語 來源：不詳 題型：閱讀理解

The practice of magic includes special words, actions, and objects. Most magic involves a person called a magician, who claims to have supernatural powers. Magic words.
To work most magic, the magician sings or speaks special words in a certain order. These words are called incantations or spells. Some spells form prayers to demons(魔鬼), spirits, or other supernatural forces. Many societies believe the magic will not work unless the magician recites the spells perfectly. Other magic words have no meaning, though they supposedly possess power when spoken by a magician. Magic actions accompany the words spoken in performing much magic. Many of these movements act out the desired effect of the magic. For example, a magician trying to make rain fall may sprinkle(灑) water on the ground. The magician's combined words and actions form a ceremony. Magic objects include certain plants, stones, and other things with supposed supernatural powers. Any such object may be called a fetish(物神). But this term often refers to an object—for example, a carving or a dried snake—honored by a tribe for its magic powers. Many tribes believe fetishes have magic power because spirits live in these objects. Many people carry magic objects called amulets(護(hù)身符)to protect themselves from harm. Many amulets are stones or rings engraved(雕刻) with magic symbols.
The magician, in some societies, nearly everyone knows how to work some magic. In other societies, only experts practice magic. Magicians may be called medicine men, medicine women, shamans, sorcerers, or witch doctors. In many societies, magicians must inherit(遺傳) their powers. In others, any person may become a magician by studying the magical arts.
Many societies believe magicians must observe certain rules and taboos (forbidden actions) for their spells to work. For example, they may be required not to eat various foods or to avoid sexual activity for a certain period before the ceremony.
小題1:What do magic words mean to people in some society?
A．They have the power to kill devils.
B．They have power if magician recites the right spells.
C．They have no effect at all.
D．They can be used whenever they want.
小題2:Why do many people believe in a fetish?
A．Because it is often a ring which is worth a lot of money.
B．Because it is carved with magic symbols.
C．Because people think spirits live in it.
D．Because it can help them with many things.
小題3:What's the best title of the passage?
A．How Magicians make Magic WorkB．The Power of Magic
C．How to Practice Magic D．The Choice of Magicians

查看答案和解析>>

同步練習(xí)冊答案