英語閱讀仔細(xì)閱讀原文（建議看自己的紙質(zhì)版真題）： Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts. Christopher Intagliata reports. As in many other fields, gender bias is widespread in the sciences. Men score higher starting salaries have more mentoring (指導(dǎo)), and have better odds of being hired. Studies show they,re also perceived asmore competent than women in STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. And new research reveals that men are more likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, too. "Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had, " says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter:'The candidate was productive, or intelligent, or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, ' but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind." Dutt and her colleagues studied more than 1, 200 letters of recommendation for postdoctoral positionsin geoscience. They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student. They found that female applicants were only half as likely to get outstanding letters, compared with their male counterparts. That includes letters of recommendation from all over the world, and written by, yes, men and women. The findings are in the journal Nature Geoscience. Dutt says they were not able to evaluate the actual seientific qualifications of the applicants using the data in the files. But she says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with thase less than outstanding letters of recommendation. "We're not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist. Rather, the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level. " Which may lead to some recommendations for the letter writers themselves. 問題： 51.What do we learn about applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences? A) There are many more men applying than women B) Chances for women to get the positions are scarce. C) More males than females are likely to get outstanding letters of recommendation D) Male applicants have more interest in these positions than their female counterparts 52.What do studies about men and women in scientific research show? A) Women engaged in postdoctoral work are quickly catchins up. B) Fewer women are applying for postdoctoral positions due to gender bias C) Men are believed to be better able to excel in STEM disciplines D) Women who are keenly interested in STEM fields are often exceptional. 53.What do the studies find about the recommendation letters for women applicants A) They are hardly ever supported by concrete examples B) They contain nothing that distinguishes the applicants. C) They provide objective informat ion without exaggeration D) They are often filled with praise for exceptional applicants. 54.What did Dutt and her colleagues do with the more than 1, 200 letters of recommendation？ A) They asked unbiased scholars to evaluate them B) They invited women professionals to edit them C) They assigned them randomly to reviewers D) They deleted all information about gender 55.What does Dutt aim to do with her study A) Raise recommendation writers' awareness of gender bias in their letters B) Open up fresh avenues for women post-doctors to join in research work. C) Alert women researchers to all types of gender bias in the STEM disciplines D) Start a public discussion an how to raise women's status in academic circles. 原創(chuàng)解析： 51 C：根據(jù)題干“applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences”，定位原文“Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts.”，首先你要知道“Female”與“woman”，“male”與“man”互為同義替換，原文中的“nearly half”表示“將近一半”，因此定位句最簡單的翻譯時，“女性優(yōu)秀推薦信比男性少”，意思與C選項(xiàng)相同。 52 C：根據(jù)題干“studies about men and women in scientific research show”，定位在“Studies show they're also perceived as?more competent than women in STEM(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. And new research reveals that men are more likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, too”，這里的“they”代指“男性”，“perceived as”表示“被視為”，與C選項(xiàng)中的“are believed to”表示“被認(rèn)為是”，為同義替換，而原文的“fields”表示“領(lǐng)域”，而C選項(xiàng)中的“disciplines”表示“*”，也是同義替換。 注意：一般情況下閱讀中discipline表示“訓(xùn)練；紀(jì)律；處罰”， s表示“*” 53 B：本題略難，因?yàn)閮H憑題干無法精確定位，先看54題得知其定位在第4段，而52題在第2段，因此53題定位在第三段，進(jìn)行模糊定位“"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had, " says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter:'The candidate was productive, or intelligent, or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, ' but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind." 雖然這段話很難理解，而且似乎沒有關(guān)于題干中“recommendation letters for women applicants”的信息，但是原文“but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind."””與B選項(xiàng)是同義替換，其中“exceptional”與B選項(xiàng)中的“distinguishes”都表示“杰出”。 54 D：本題根據(jù)題干定位比較容易，原文“Dutt and her colleagues studied more than 1, 200 letters of recommendation for postdoctoral positionsin geoscience. They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student.”，“so”是關(guān)鍵詞，后面的內(nèi)容一般是考點(diǎn)，“without?knowing the gend”與D選項(xiàng)“deleted all information about gender” 為同義替換，其中“?without?”表示“否定”，“deleted”表示“刪除”。 55 A：題干“Dutt aim”，定位在*一段“the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level. " Which may lead to some recommendations for the letter writers themselves.”其中“the point is”表示“重點(diǎn)是”，與題干中的“aim”，表示“目的”意思接近，故“the point is”后面是答案點(diǎn)。
