[单项选择]Mike: Why haven’t more women chosen careers in science Alice: Well, first of all, most children grow up with the idea that boys understand science more easily than girls do. This continues in the high school and college years. Later, it’s hard for a woman to get a job in science. Mike: ______. Alice: Well, no, I didn’t. A career doesn’t get in the way. My husband and children try to understand my work and they are willing to help me. I know many women scientists who have happily arrived and have families.
A. Did you sacrifice a family for your work
B. Did you feel happy with your life
C. Did you have something interesting to share with us
D. Did you get a higher salary

[单项选择]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 cvclotron(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 there white males But climb up to the third floor and you’ll see a 40 display.There,among the photos of current facnlty members and students are portraits of the 41 head of the department,Marjorie Shapiro and four other women whose reseaich 42 everything from the mecheanics 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

[填空题]Women earn more money than their counterparts of the opposite sex only in nursing.

[填空题]Women are more likely to suffer from SAD which usually begins from childhood.

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Women have more problems than men in old age. First of all, they have less money—or no money at all—and because of this, they often feel they get less respect, even at home. Quite a large number have no pension (退休金) because they have never worked outside the home, and thirty-eight percent are supported mainly by their husbands or children. Second, a larger number of old women than old men become widows (single women). Men are normally older than the women they marry, and women generally live longer than men. The remarriage among older widows is lower than that among widowers (single men). Statistics (统计) from 1990 in Shanghai show only 52 percent of elderly women with husbands still living, compared to (与……相比) 82 percent of men.
Because of lower incomes and the difficulty of remarriage, many elderly women who live alone, are poor and have almost no social life. Even an old couple lives with children, it is the woman who ends up doing the work ar
A. would have no more problems
B. could live a fairy life
C. would get more respect
D. would need no care of others

[填空题]According to Mr. Olayer, women are more likely than men to see nursing as a full-time career.

[填空题]Women are more than twice as likely as men to suffer from depression.