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

"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] 【C6】
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答案 B
解析 空格所在句缺少谓语动词，故判断应填人动词。由句首的时间状语in the last academic year可推断本句时态是一般过去时，故此处应填入动词的过去式。[语义判断]句首And说明本句句意与上句是并列或顺承的关系。上一句提到，在过去的十年里，英国攻读Stem学科的女性人数增加。由此可推断本句顺承上一句指出Stem学科女性研究生在英国大学中的占比。空格填入accounted与空后的for搭配，account for“占(一定数量或比例)”符合句意，故为答案。
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