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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
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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2014-05-20
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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 finds that most women scientists______.
选项
A、grow up in an environment that fosters independent thought
B、just happen to go into the scientific career
C、are born in a wealthy family and live a comfortable life
D、have encouraging parents who are themselves scientists
答案
A
解析
细节题。最后一段提到,女性科学家成长的背景千差万别,但有一点是她们大部分人所共有的,即most of them developed habits of independent thought at an early age。作者分析说,虽然有些家庭培育女儿独立思考的能力不一定是为了让她们将来成为科学家,但正是独立思考能力使她们最终选择了科学领域。故选项[A]符合文意。
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考研英语一
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