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One day a mime(ÑƾçÑÝÔ±) is visiting the zoo and wants to make some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper drags him into his office. The zookeeper explains that the zoo¡¯s most popular attraction, a gorilla(´óÐÉÐÉ), has died suddenly and the keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla. The mime accepts.
The next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage before the crowd comes. He soon discovers he can sleep all as he likes, play and make fun of the people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime ¡ª the job he likes but loses.
However, with days going by, he begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience(¹ÛÖÚ), he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition(¸ôǽ), and dangles(Ðü¹Ò) from the top to the lion¡¯s cage. The lion gets angry at this. The scene is afuel to the crowd.
At the end of the day he is given a pay raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this continues for some time. The crowds grow larger, and the mime¡¯s pay keeps going up.
Then one day when he is dangling over the lion he slips and falls. The mime is terrified(ÏÅ»µ). He starts screaming, ¡°Help me!¡±, but the lion is quick. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and the lion says, ¡°Shut up you fool! Do you want to get us both fired?¡±
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ1¡¿How does the mime find the job dressing up as the gorilla?
| A£®Hard and tiring. | B£®Dangerous. | C£®Easy and fun. | D£®Boring. |
| A£®find pleasure for himself | B£®get the lion¡¯s attention |
| C£®get his pay raised | D£®win back his audience |
| A£®frightening | B£®common | C£®exciting | D£®familiar |
| A£®the lion will eat the poor mime |
| B£®the lion is also played by a person |
| C£®the animals in the zoo are all played by people |
| D£®animals played by people can attract more visitors |
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I don¡¯t want to talk about being a woman scientist again. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it¡¯s like to work in a field dominated (controlled) by men. I was never very good at telling those stories because truthfully I never found them interesting. What I do find interesting is the origin of the universe, the shape of space, time and the nature of black holes.
At 19, when I began studying astrophysics(ÌìÌåÎïÀíѧ), it did not bother me in the least to be the only woman in the classroom. But while earning my Ph.D. at MIT and then as a post-doctor doing space research, the issue started to bother me. My every achievement¡ªjobs, research papers, awards¡ªwas viewed through the lens (¾µÆ¬) of gender (ÐÔ±ð) politics. So were my failures. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an argument on left brain versus (Ïà¶ÔÓÚ) right brain, or nature versus nurture (ÅàÓý), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.
Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations (ÌôÐÆ) : I don¡¯t talk about that anymore. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn¡¯t want to deal with gender issues. Why should curing sexism be yet another terrible burden on every female scientist? After all, I don¡¯t study sociology or political theory.
Today I research and teach at Barnard, a women¡¯s college in New York City. Recently, someone asked me how many of the 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 they will manage their scientific research and a desire for children. And I don¡¯t dismiss those concerns. Still, I 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.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ1¡¿Why doesn¡¯t the author want to talk about being a woman scientist again?
| A£®She is fed up with the issue of gender discrimination (ÆçÊÓ).¡¡ |
| B£®She feels unhappy working in male-dominated fields. |
| C£®She is not good at telling stories of the kind. |
| D£®She finds space research more important. |
| A£®the burden she bears in a male-dominated society |
| B£®her involvement in gender politics |
| C£®her over-confidence as a female astrophysicist |
| D£®the very fact that she is a woman |
A. Lack of confidence in succeeding in space science.
B. Unfair accusations from both inside and outside her circle.
C. People¡¯s fixed attitude toward female scientists.
D. Widespread misconceptions about nature and nurtured.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ4¡¿What does the image the author presents to her students suggest?
| A£®Women students needn¡¯t have the concerns of her generation. |
| B£®Women can balance a career in science and having a family. |
| C£®Women have more barriers on their way to academic success. |
| D£®Women now have fewer problems pursuing a science career. |