35.
He got well-prepared for the job interview, for he couldn’t risk the good
opportunity ____.
A.
to lose
B. losing C. to be
lost
D. being lost
Ⅲ. 完形填空
As
an engineering student, I had a degree and three good job offers. I can’t help
trembling when I hear about studies that show that women are at a 36 when it comes to math. However, I
discovered: just because a subject is 37 to learn, it does not 38 you are not good at it. You just have to
grit your teeth and work harder to get good at it. 39 you do, there’s a strong chance you will
enjoy it more than anything else.
In
eighth grade I took algebra(代数学).
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. He let me 45 the tests, and I pulled my grade up to an
A.
I
studied a lot in college, too. I had moments of fear while sitting below the
buzzing 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(热力学).
But the 49 in my classes 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(女性)and
a good career. 51 I reminded myself that those 52 , the ones that say that 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. A woman can learn
anything a man can, but first she needs to know that she can do it, and that
takes a leap of 55 . It also
helps to have to have selective hearing.