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Johanna Levelt Sengers stands at the top of her profession but confesses that " it can be a little lonely" as one of only two wo

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问题     Johanna Levelt Sengers stands at the top of her profession but confesses that " it can be a little lonely" as one of only two women in the 82-member engineering sciences section of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences(NAS). A scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, she belongs to both NAS and its partner, the National Academy of Engineering, where she’s one of seven women within the 173-member chemical engineering section. So in late 2004, when she was asked to co-chair an international panel on women in science with Manju Sharma of India, they decided to examine not just women’s place in society but also their status within the 90 national academies that had requested the report.
    The report, posted last week by the Inter Academy Council(IAC), offers a refreshingly candid assessment of the problems facing women trying to enter and move up in the world of science and engineering. Although it strikes familiar chords about the need to remove barriers and increase opportunities for girls and women, it sings a new tune in commanding the national academies themselves to "first put their own houses in order. " In addition to choosing more women as members and leaders of their organizations, each national academy should form a standing committee on diversity to gather and discuss gender-related data, it says.
    "Wow. This is far more hard-hitting and to the point than I had expected," says Donna Dean, president of the Association for Women in Science in Washington, D. C. , and a former senior administrator at the National Institutes of Health, who is now at the Washington, D. C. , science-lobbying firm of Lewis-Burke Associates. "It tells the various academies to stop pontificating about the right thing to do and start showing it in how they operate. "
    The report was funded in part by a $50,000 grant from L’Oreal. Since 1998, the France-based cosmetics company has honored outstanding women scientists around the world—including five of the eight women on the 10-person IAC panel. Jennifer Campbell, who heads the company’s philanthropic efforts, says she would like to see across-the-board parity for women in science. But Levelt Sengers says she thinks that "a reasonable goal would be no major disparity between the percentage of Ph. D. degrees awarded to women in a particular field and the percentage elected in that field. " Most academies are a far cry from reaching even that level.
    NAS President Ralph Cicerone says that there’s "no magic bullet" for adding women to the academy’s ranks but that NAS is trying to increase their chances of gaining the type of recognition—through service on academy panels, keynote speeches, and major scientific awards—that traditionally leads to NAS membership. NAS has no plans "to collapse its activities into one committee on gender issues," he says, adding that the challenge calls for "a sustained effort... along the entire pipeline."
From the first paragraph we can learn that
选项 A、Johanna Levelt Sengers is very successful in her career.
B、Johanna Levelt Sengers feels very lonely in family life.
C、there are 82 women working in the National Academy of Sciences.
D、the panel will only address the issue of women’s status in the national academies.
答案A
解析 事实细节题。根据题干提示定位至第一段。该段第一句谈到“约翰娜.莉维特.森基思处于事业的顶峰”，故[A]正确。之后虽然谈到“有些高处不胜寒”，其强调的是周围缺少从事科研活动的女性同胞，而非[B]所提及的“家庭生活中孤独”；文章谈到“国家科学院工程科学部82名成员中的两名女性”，而非整个科学院有82名女科学家，故排除[C]；该段最后一句谈到该座谈会“不仅会涉及女性在社会中的地位，还将了解女性在90个国家学术团体中的地位”，故排除[D]“座谈会只涉及女性在90个国家学术团体中的地位”。
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