2013年12月英语四级考试真题答案卷二_第5页

Part3 Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions： In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before asking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

To get a sense of how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the  36  of some of the most important discoveries in modern science--- starting with Ernest Lawrence’s invention of the cyclotron (回旋 加速器）in 1931. A generation ago, female faces were  37  and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits  38  the many distinguished physicists who made history here,  39  all of them white males.

But climb up to the third floor and you’ll see a  40  display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the  41  head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women whose research  42  everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they're still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 43 may be in the smaller photos to the right: graduate and undergraduate students, about 20 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country's top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also  44  "I believe things are getting better，" she says, "but they're not getting better as  45  as I would like."

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

A) circumstance F) different K) presently

B) confidence G) exposing L) rare

C) covers H) fast M) realistic

D) current I) honoring N) site

E) deals J) hope O) virtually