阅读理解 British physicist Dr. Jess Wade has written 270 Wikipedia pages for trailblazing female scientists in an effort to get every woman "who has achieved something impressive in science to get the prominence and recognition they deserve".
Completing the feat in less than a year, Wade, a postdoctoral researcher in the field of plastic electronics at Imperial College London's Blackett Laboratory, said she needed to " change things from the inside" to encourage more girls to participate in science, according to The Guardian.
" Wikipedia is a really great way to engage people in this mission because the more you read about these sensational women, the more you get so motivated and inspired by their personal stories," Wade told the publication.
Wade told HuffPost that she " decided at the beginning of this year" that she'd make one page an evening. "In reality, I've made more than that, because sometimes there are just too many awesome people, and it would be too much of an injustice not to get their stories out, ASAP," she told HuffPost.
As a female Ph. D. student, Wade realized she was a minority in her program — a feeling that became the catalyst for her speaking out at school and encouraging younger women to get involved in science, technology, engineering or math. Wade became particularly fixated on revising the messaging surrounding women in science.
For example, "9 percent is not enough" is a tagline of a 2016 campaign by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. " If I heard something was only 9 percent of girls when I was at school I would've been, 'Like, no,'" Wade told The Guardian.
Additionally, Wade noticed that many of the initiatives designed to boost women's participation, at least in the U. K. , have "little or no evaluation as to whether the projects had achieved their aims".
" There's so much energy, enthusiasm and money going into all these initiatives to get girls into science," Wade told the publication. "Absolutely none of them is evidence-based and none of them work. It's so unscientific, that's what really surprises me. "
单选题 36.The underlined word "trailblazing" is most probably used to describe someone______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】猜词题。首先定位到第一段，然后拆词分析，这个词是由“trail小路”和“blaze燃烧”组成，加上-ing变成了形容词。再结合后面的句子提到“在科学方面取得了非凡成就的女性”，可以大概猜测这个词的意思是“开辟出一条新路”，因此[B]选项的意思最为贴切。其余选项意思都不准确。
单选题 37.What is NOT the purpose of Dr. Jess Wade's behavior?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】推理判断题。根据题干和选项定位到第一段和第二段。[A]，[B]，[C]三个选项都可以在原文中找到对应的句子，只有[D]“为了进行塑料电子领域的博士后研究”错误，这个是韦德女士本来就有的职位，因此答案就是[D]。
单选题 38.How many Wikipedia pages did she write every day?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】细节题。定位到第四段。这里提到了她写维基百科的频率。根据文章的描述，她本来是想每天写一页，但是发现杰出女性太多，因此所写的数目远远超过了这个数目，因此应该选择[C]，[D]是她目前写完的总数，其他选项都不正确。
单选题 39.What probably contributed to Dr. Jess Wade's behavior?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节题。根据选项定位到第五段。第一句就提到了她所作所为的理由。“作为一名女博士，韦德意识到她在自己的专业中占少数——这种感受促使她在学校发表演讲……”[B]是她的具体行为，不是她的动机。[C]是她希望带领年轻女性做的事情，[D]这个理由不够具体，有些片面。因此应该选择[A]。
单选题 40.What's the problems about other campaigns, according to Wade?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】细节题。根据题干定位到最后一段。最后一段中提到了韦德对于其他类似运动的看法。[A]描述的不是类似的活动；[C]不是这些活动的问题，不算是缺点；[D]的意思正好与原文相反，因此错误；只有[B]的描述和原文没有差别，因此应该选择[B]。