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British physicist Dr. Jess Wade has written 270 Wikipedia pages for trailblazing female scientists in an effort to get every wom
British physicist Dr. Jess Wade has written 270 Wikipedia pages for trailblazing female scientists in an effort to get every wom
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2021-02-21
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British physicist Dr. Jess Wade has written 270 Wikipedia pages for
trailblazing
female scientists in an effort to get every woman "who has achieved something impressive in science to get the prominence and recognition they deserve".
Completing the feat in less than a year, Wade, a postdoctoral researcher in the field of plastic electronics at Imperial College London’s Blackett Laboratory, said she needed to " change things from the inside" to encourage more girls to participate in science, according to The Guardian.
" Wikipedia is a really great way to engage people in this mission because the more you read about these sensational women, the more you get so motivated and inspired by their personal stories," Wade told the publication.
Wade told HuffPost that she " decided at the beginning of this year" that she’d make one page an evening. "In reality, I’ve made more than that, because sometimes there are just too many awesome people, and it would be too much of an injustice not to get their stories out, ASAP," she told HuffPost.
As a female Ph. D. student, Wade realized she was a minority in her program — a feeling that became the catalyst for her speaking out at school and encouraging younger women to get involved in science, technology, engineering or math. Wade became particularly fixated on revising the messaging surrounding women in science.
For example, "9 percent is not enough" is a tagline of a 2016 campaign by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. " If I heard something was only 9 percent of girls when I was at school I would’ve been, ’Like, no,’" Wade told The Guardian.
Additionally, Wade noticed that many of the initiatives designed to boost women’s participation, at least in the U. K. , have "little or no evaluation as to whether the projects had achieved their aims".
" There’s so much energy, enthusiasm and money going into all these initiatives to get girls into science," Wade told the publication. "Absolutely none of them is evidence-based and none of them work. It’s so unscientific, that’s what really surprises me. "
The underlined word "trailblazing" is most probably used to describe someone______.
选项
A、who has achieved something impressive
B、who does something new and interesting
C、who gets prominence
D、who works on roads
答案
B
解析
猜词题。首先定位到第一段,然后拆词分析,这个词是由“trail小路”和“blaze燃烧”组成,加上-ing变成了形容词。再结合后面的句子提到“在科学方面取得了非凡成就的女性”,可以大概猜测这个词的意思是“开辟出一条新路”,因此[B]选项的意思最为贴切。其余选项意思都不准确。
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