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For the first time, more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees last year, the climax of decades of chang

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问题     For the first time, more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees last year, the climax of decades of change in the status of women at colleges nationwide.
    The number of women at every level of academia has been【C1】______for decades. Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2【C2】______in undergraduate and graduate education. Doctoral study was the last【C3】______—the only remaining area of higher education that still had a(n) 【C4】______male majority.
    According to an annual【C5】______report from the Council of Graduate Schools, based in Washington, of the doctoral degrees【C6】______in the last academic year, 28,962 went to women and 28,469 to men.
    Doctoral degrees, which require a(n) 【C7】______of seven years’ study, are【C8】______the last to show the【C9】______of long-term changes. "It is a【C10】______that has been snaking its way through the educational pipeline," said Nathan Bell, the report’s author and the【C11】______of research and policy analysis for the council. "It was【C12】______to happen."
    Women have long outnumbered men in【C13】______master’s degrees, especially in education. According to the new report, which is based on an【C14】______survey of graduate【C15】______, women earned nearly six in ten graduate degrees in the last academic year.
    But women who【C16】______to become college professors, a common path for those with doctorates, were【C17】______by the particular demands of faculty life. Studies have found that the tenure clock often conflicts with the【C18】______clock: The busiest years of the【C19】______career are the years that well-educated women【C20】______to have children. Many women feel they have to choose between having a career in academics and having a family.
【C1】
选项 A、extending
B、decreasing
C、expanding
D、rising
答案D
解析 由上一段的“去年美圉获得博士学位的女性人数首次超过男性”可以推断，处于各个学术水平的女性人数应是在增长，故选D项rising“上升”。
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