Passage 3
Women are also underrepresented in the administration and this is because there are so few women full professors. In 1985, Regent Beryl Milburn produced a report blasting the University of Texas System administration for not encouraging women. The University was rated among the lowest for the system. In a 1987 update, Milburn commended the progress that was made and called for even more improvement.
One of the positive results from her study was a System-wide program to inform women of available administrative jobs.
College of Communication Associate Dean Patrica Witherspoon, said it is important that woman be flexible when it comes to relocating if they want to rise in the ranks. Although a woman may face a chilly climate on campus, many times in order for her to succeed, she must rise above the problems around her and concentrate on her work.
Until women make up a greater percentage of the senior positions in the University and all academia, inequities will exist.
“Women need to spend their energies and time doing scholarly activities that are important here at the University.” Spirduso said. “If they do that will be successful in this system. If they spend their time in little groups mourning the sexual discrimination that they think exists here, they are wasting valuable study time.”
According to Spirduso, women need to ________.
定位到文章最后一段，Spirduso所表达的意思是，女性要在大学里有所作为，就要把时间投入到 研究与学习之中，而不应花时间去应对可能存在的性别歧视。只有D选项是贴切的。
From this passage, we know that ________.
文章开篇就说“Women are also underrepresented in the administration and this is because there are so few women full professors.”，故A、B选项错误，D选项中“senior positions”对应原文“full professors”，D的叙 述是正确的。原文第三段第二句中“chili climate”是一个比喻，并不是指天气，C错误。
Which of the following statements is true?
第一段中Milburn在1987年的报告里表示“the progress that was made”，由此可知A选项正确。
One of the positive results from Milburn's study was that ________.
定位到原文第二段可知B选项正确。
The title for this passage should be ________.
主旨大意题。全文描述的是女性在大学中遭受的不公平待遇，也即学术界的性别歧视问题。A， B，C均为作者使用的具体事例。故选D。