today i research and teach at barnard, a women's college in new york city. recently, someone asked me how many of tlie 45 students in my class were women. you cannot imagine my satisfaction at being able to answer. 45. i know some of my students worry how ihcy will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. and 1 don't dismiss those concerns. still. 1 don't tell them "war" stories. instead. i have given them this: the visual of their physics professor heavily pregnant doing physics experiments. and in turn they have given me the image of 45 women driven by a love of science. and that's a sight worth talking about.
62. why doesn't ihc author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?
a) she feels unhappy working in male-dominated fields.
b) she is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination.
c) she is not good at telling stories of the kind.
d) she finds space research more important.
63. from paragraph 2. we can infer that people would attribute the author's failures to_______
a) the very fact that she is a woman
b) her involvement in gender politics
c) her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist
d) the burden she bears in a male-dominated society
64. what did the author constantly fight against while doing her ph.d. and post-doctoral research?
a) lack of confidence in succeeding in space science.
b) unfair accusations from both tfiside and outside her circle.
c) people's stereotyped attitude towards female scientists.
d) widespread misconceptions about nature and nurture
65. why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class?
a) female students no longer have to boihcr about gender issues.
b) her students' performance has brought back her confidence.
c) her female students can do just as well as male students.
d) more female students are pursuing science than before.
66. what docs the image the author presents to her students suggest?
a) women students needn't have the concerns of her generation.
b) women have more barriers on their way to academic success.
c) women can balance a career in science and having a family.
d) women now have fewer problcmsmirsuinga science career.
part v
an earthquake hit kashmir on oct. 8. 2005. it took some 75.000 lives,_67_130,000 and left nearly 3.5 million without food, jobs or homes.
_68_ overnight, scores of tent villages bloomed
_69_the region, tended by international aid
organizations, military_70_and aid groups working day and night to shelter the survivors before u inter set_71_.
mercifully, the season was mild. but with the_72_of spring, the refugees will be moved again.
camps that_73_health care, food and shelter for
150,000 survivors have begun to close as they were
_74_intended to be permanent.
for most of the refugees, the thought of going
back brings._75_, emotions. the past six months
have been difficult. families of _76_ many as 10
people have had to shelter _77_a single tent and
share cookstoves and bathing_78_with neighbors. "they are looking forward to the clean water of their rivers," officials say. "they are_79_of free fresh fruit. they want to get back to their herds and
start_80_again." bui mosi will be retuming to
_81_but heaps of ruins. in many villages, elecuica!
_82_ have not been repaired, nor have roads. aid
workers _83_thai it will lake years (o rebuild what
the earthquake look_84_. and for the thousands urvivors. the_85_, will never be complete.
yet the survivors have lo start somewhere. new homes can be built__86__the stones, bricks and
beams of old ones. spring is coming and it is a good
lime lo start again.
67. a) injured b)ruined c) destroyed d) damaged
68. a) altogether b) almost c) scarcely d) surely
69. a) among b )above c) amid d) across
70. a) ranks b) equipment c)equipment d) installations
71. a) out b)in c)on d) forth
72. a)falling b) emergence c) arrival d)appearing
73. a) strengthened b) aided c) transferred d) provided
74. a) never b)once c)ever d) yet
75. a) puzzled b) contrasted c) doubled d) mixed
76. a) like b)as c)so d)too
77. a) by b) below c) under d) with