"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 (26) 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 (27) in her lifetime.
More than 60 years after Franklin's death, we are (28) (难)living in a different world, where women play an important part in every echelon of our society — not least in science, innovation, higher education and research.UK universities are world leaders when it comes to advancing and 29 gender equality.
In the past decade, we have seen a (30) 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 (31) for more than half of all Stem postgraduates at UK universities.
Data shows us the (32) 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 (33) 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 2016-17 was 13.7%, (34) there is still some way to go to ensure women are rising through the ranks to higher grade positions and being paid (35) .
A) accessible F) effective
B) accounted G) ladder
C) adaptation H) misread
D) appropriately I) nomination
E) considerable J) overlooked
K) promoting
L) senior
M) submission
N) suggesting O) thankfull
答案解析：
26. A根据前文Rosalind Franklin的名言“科学与日常生活不能也不应被分开”以及她坚信“对科学的追求应该是______给所有人的”，可知这里需要一个形容词，表达“可接近的、可参与的”意思。所以选A。
27. J 根据句意“作为一名在20世纪上半叶工作的女性，富兰克林对我们时代一些最伟大的科学发现——包括DNA结构——的贡献，在她有生之年可悲地被______了”，结合历史背景(她的贡献长期未被承认)，可知这里需要一个表示“被忽视、被忽略”的词。所以选J。
28. O根据句意“在富兰克林去世60多年后，我们______生活在一个不同的世界”，这里需要一个副词来修饰动词“living”，表达一种积极的态度，即“庆幸地、感激地”。所以选O。
29. K根据句意“英国大学在推动和______性别平等方面处于世界领先地位”，空格前的“and”连接两个并列的动名词形式，且“advancing”(推进)和“______性别平等”是意思相近的搭配。所以选K。
30. E根据句意“在过去十年中，我们看到在英格兰，被全日制理工科本科学位录取的女性数量有了______的增长”，这里需要一个形容词来修饰“increase”(增长)，且后文提到女性占研究生的一半以上，说明这个增长是“相当大的、显著的”。所以选E。
31. B根据句意“在上一学年，女性______了英国大学所有理工科研究生的一半以上”，这里需要一个动词与“for”搭配，构成“account for”(占……比例)的固定词组。所以选B。
32. G 根据句意“数据向我们表明，女性攀登成功的______越往上走就越艰难”，这里使用了一个比喻，将职业晋升比作攀登梯子，因此需要一个表示“梯子、阶梯”的名词。所以选G。
33. L根据句意“在______级别，只有四分之一的教授是女性”，前文提到了学术人员(academic staff)，后文提到了教授(professors)，教授属于更高级别的职位，因此这里需要一个形容词表示“高级的”。所以选L。
34. N根据句意“2016-17学年该行业基于薪资中位数的性别薪酬差距为13.7%，______要确保女性晋升到更高级别职位并获得______报酬，仍有一段路要走”，空格后是一个完整的句子，说明前半句是一个事实，后半句是基于这个事实得出的结论或暗示，因此需要一个现在分词表示“表明、暗示”。所以选N。
35. D 根据句意“……确保女性晋升到更高级别职位并获得______的报酬”，这里需要一个副词来修饰“paid”(被支付)，与前面的“性别薪酬差距”形成对比，表达“恰当地、应得地”。所以选D。
