牛津译林版高中英语必修四Unit 3《Tomorrow’s world》读写专练

牛津译林版高中英语必修四Unit 3《Tomorrow’s world》读写专练

任务型读写专练

A

Women are avoiding academic careers in math.intensive fields because the

lifestyle is consistent with motherhood,researchers at Cornell University found in

a study to be published next month in American Scientist Magazine、

Universities have long been criticized for hiring and evaluation policies that

discriminate against women,but the findings of this new study point to the female

biological clock as a main reason why so few women end up as professors in fields

such as math,engineering,physics and computer science、

A woman who wants a family looks at the tough path to a tenured（终身的) position

and considers how old she will be before she can start a family and how little time

she will have to raise her children、Many of those women choose a more flexible career、

“Universities have been largely inflexible about anything other than the

standard timetable,which means you’ll have to struggle for years and only then would

you consider getting pregnant（怀孕的),” said

Wendy Williams，a human development professor at Cornell who co。authored the

study with her husband,Stephen Ceci、

Williams and Ceci analyzed data about the academic careers of men and women with

and without children、Before women became mothers,they had careers equal to or more

successful than their male peers、But once they gave birth，the dynamic changed、

Women in other academic fields such as the humanities and social sciences face

similar problems and often leave academic as well、But because there are so many

women in those Ph、D、programs,enough finally stay to amount to a critical mass of

female professors、

In math.heavy fields，however，women make up a tiny minority of the graduate

students、So when the rare few who make it through a Ph、D、program leave because

universities are not concerned about their needs as mothers at all，the net result

is almost no women represented on faculty rosters（教师名单），the study said、

Phenomenon Few women choose 1、________ careers in math­intensive fields、

Reasons General belief The hiring and evaluation policies of

universities don’t treat women 2、________、

New discovery So few women end up as professors in

fields，such as math，engineering，牛津译林版高中英语必修四Unit 3《Tomorrow’s world》读写专练

physics and computer science 3、________

because of the female biological clock、

Supporting

details The 4、________ path and the countless hours they need to devote

to their work make them give up、

Universities have been inflexible about anything 5、________ the

standard timetable、

Before women became mothers，they achieved equal or more 6、________ than their male peers、 But after they had children，things changed、

Women in other academic fields are also 7、________ with the same

problem and leave academic as well、

8、________ The fact that the lifestyle of professor doesn’t 9、________ with

their motherhood leads to their being unwilling to take up

academic careers in math。intensive fields、 Even if the rare few

make it through a Ph、D、program,they leave in the end because

universities don’t 10、________ about their needs as mothers、

B

How to Graduate from College with a High

GPA (Grade Point Average）

One Hour a Day

One of the most challenging things about college is time management、It’s not

that you don’t have enough、In fact you usually have too much time，and as a result

time gets wasted、If you take good notes in class,and spend one hour reviewing your

notes every day before going to sleep，you make use of the power of the subconscious(下意识) to absorb information and by the time exams come around you’ll know all the

materials on a subconscious level，and you don’t have to sit up the night before

exams、Considering the amount of free time you usually have in college,one hour a

day is not much in view of the long。term benefits、

Select Easy Courses

In your first term of college,load up on as many “easy A’s” as possible、There are several reasons for this、The first term of college is full of excitement

as it is，and there are probably even more today than ever thanks to Facebook,Twitter，and more、The last thing you want to do is add difficult coursework to this、The

other reason why selecting easy courses is powerful is that it allows you to start

off your college career with an extremely high GPA、Good grades have less and less

of an impact on your GPA later in your college career and raising your GPA becomes

much more difficult、Selecting easy courses in the first term also leaves room for

the occasional failure when coursework becomes more challenging、