"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated." Those were th

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问题    "Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated." Those were the words uttered by pioneering British scientist Rosalind Franklin, who firmly believed that the pursuit of science should be【C1】______to all.
   As a woman working in the first half of the 20th century, Franklin’s contributions to some of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time including the structure of DNA—were sadly【C2】_______ in her lifetime.
   More than 60 years after Franklin’s death, we are【C3】______living in a different world, where women play an important part in every echelon (阶层) of our society—not least in science, innovation, higher education and research. UK universities are world leaders when it comes to advancing and【C4】______gender equality.
   In the past decade, we have seen a【C5】______increase in England in the number of women accepted on to full-time undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem subjects). And in the last academic year, women【C6】______for more than half of all Stem postgraduates at UK universities.
   Data shows us the【C7】______to success gets harder for women to climb the further up they go. Although women make up the majority of undergraduates in our universities, just under half of academic staff are female. At【C8】______levels, only a quarter of professors are women, and black women make up less than 2% of all female academic staff.
   There are also stark differences in pay across grades. The gender pay gap based on median salaries across the sector in 2016 - 2017 was 13.7%,【C9】______there is still some way to go to ensure women are rising through the ranks to higher grade positions and being paid【C10】______.
   A) accessible F) effective K) promoting
   B) accounted G) ladder L) senior
   C) adaptation H) misread M) submission
   D) appropriately I) nomination N) suggesting
   E) considerable J) overlooked O) thankfully [br] 【C5】

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答案 E

解析 空格位于不定冠词a和名词increase之间,应填入形容词性的词来修饰increase。[语义判断]上一段提到英国大学在推进和促进性别平等方面处于世界领先地位,并列举了其取得的成就。此处提到,在过去的十年里,我们看到英国攻读科学、技术、工程和数学(Stem学科)全日制本科学位的女性人数______增加。结合所给形容词性选项,considerable“相当大的”符合语义,故为答案。
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