stereotype       role-model       look up to       pioneering

2. Who says men can’t be nurses? That’s the biggest ______ I’ve ever heard!

gender bias       prestige       groundbreaking       momentous

3. I’d like to thank my parents, who ______ in me getting this award. I couldn’t have done it without them.

play a key role      plays the key role       played a quay role       played a key role

4. If Emmeline Pankhurst hadn’t ______ for us, I never could have become a politician.

groundbreaking       looked up to       paved the way       inspired

5. I don’t act in a theatre for the money. I do it for the ______.

prestige       pioneering       inspire       groundbreaking

答案 1. 阅读课文并回答问题。

1. How many people were able to correctly answer the riddle about gender bias?

Only 15% of the participants were able to correctly guess the answer.

2. What is the average percentage of women engineers in European countries, not including the UK?

The average percentage of women engineers in European countries other than the UK is 20%.

3. True or false? Science owes nothing to women.

False. But visible or not, science and technology owe a huge amount of prestige to any number of pioneering women who have paved the way to amazing discoveries.

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