55.A.expensive       B.precious        C.comfortable     D.interesting

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36-40 DABCA   41-45 ADBAC   46-50 CAABC  51-55 DAACB

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As an engineering student, I had a degree and three good job offers. I couldn’t help trembling when I heard about studies which showed that women are at a (n)  36   when it comes to math. However, I discovered: just because a subject is  37   to learn, it does not show you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work harder to get good at it.  38   you do, there’s a (an)  39   chance you will enjoy it more than anything else.

In eighth grade I took algebra (代数). On one test I got only 36 percent of the  40   answers. I failed the next one, too. I started to  41   maybe I’m just not good at this. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who didn’t take my bad grades as a judgment of my  42  , but  43   as an indication that I should study more. He  44   me aside and told me he knew I could do better. Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties. I  45   the following tests, and pulled my grade up to an A.

I studied a lot in college, too. I had moments of fear while sitting below the fluorescent lights in the  46   library on Saturday afternoons, when I  47   that the estrogen (雌性激素) in my body was  48   me from understanding thermodynamics (热动力学). But the  49   in my class had to work just as hard, and I knew that I couldn’t  50   to lose confidence in myself. I didn’t want to choose between my femininity (女人气) and a good career.  51   I reminded myself that those  52  , the ones that say math comes more naturally to men, are faulty.

Here’s a secret: math and science don’t go  53   to most people. No one was  54   born knowing calculus (微积分). But as a famous saying goes: Y nothing is difficult if you put your heart into it. A woman can learn anything a man can, but first she needs to know that she can do it, and then takes a leap of  55  .

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