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For most of my working life I have been a practicing scientist. I have worked in industrial and academic laboratories—as a labor

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问题     For most of my working life I have been a practicing scientist. I have worked in industrial and academic laboratories—as a laboratory assistant—and as a consultant. I have also taught chemistry from "0" level, to the supervision of PhD students. But it is only in recent years that T have begun to look seriously beyond my own personal experience to the role of women in science in a wider context.
    To my dismay, it seemed that there had been little improvement since I had embarked on my own career. The dice are still so heavily loaded against girls and women choosing a scientific career that I was astonished that so many had succeeded, against all the odds, rather than that there wen; so few.
    Many factors deter girls from choosing a scientific career and one of these is undoubtedly the attitudes adopted by parents, teachers, friends and society in general. It was this area which I decided to investigate and my studies so far have indicated that negative attitudes towards women scientists have always existed and still prevail. These attitudes need to be demonstrated and combated because they adversely affect women’s careers, role models for girls and boy’s expectations of women.
    Science is dominated by men, most of its practitioners are men and it is said to have a masculine image. Society does not expect women to become scientists so that those do know that they are "stepping out of line". This, in itself, makes them "special" in some way because the men, in a male dominated profession, are not, in any sense, rebels. In an attempt to discover whether women scientists, have any other characteristics in common, I have been gathering information about their lives, the way they work, the nature of that work and what they say about themselves.
    If one includes both past and present women scientists, one finds, superficially at least, a great diversity, particularly in their backgrounds, which range from poor, working-class to rich aristocracy. Some are married, with children, while some are unmarried and childless. However, it is evident that most of them developed habits of independent thought at an early age. Often these seem to have been fostered by parents who, in some cases, were subsequently dismayed when their daughters insisted on following their own inclinations and rejected traditional roles. Perhaps the parents inadvertently sowed the seeds of rebellion. Not all of the women scientists had to struggle against adversity as we normally think of it. The privileged ones who could have led idle, comfortable lives, chose not to, but all were quietly confident that what they were doing was right for them.
The author discovers that todav women______.
选项 A、are making great achievements in their academic pursuit
B、still work against all the odds to pursue a scientific career
C、find a bigger role to play in the development of science
D、work in academic laboratories just as men scientists
答案B
解析 细节题。第二段的两句话分别从正反两方面说明了女性想从事科学研究所面临的逆境。一是今天的女科学家仍然很少，二是她们要想成功地选择科学领域会面临很多阻碍。故选项[B]正确。选项[A]具有很强的迷惑性。根据上下文，so many had succeeded不是指科学家在自己的领域中取得成功，而是应该承前被理解为so many had succeeded in choosing a scientific career。从上文来看这种理解比较合理，因为下文主要探讨的是哪些因素阻碍了女性选择科学事业，因此选项[A]表
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