2020年07月四级第1套选词填空原文翻译及答案解析

Questions __26__ to __35__ are based on the following passage.

适当的问题基于以下段落。

"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.

'科学与日常生活不能也不应该被分离。' 这是先驱英国科学家罗莎琳德·富兰克林的话，她坚信科学的追求应该对所有人开放。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科学发现的贡献，包括DNA的结构，在她生前不幸被忽视。

More than 60 years after Franklin's death, we are __28__ 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 __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.

在富兰克林去世60多年后，我们幸运地生活在一个不同的世界，女性在社会的各个阶层都扮演着重要角色——尤其在科学、创新、高等教育和研究领域。英国大学在推动和促进性别平等方面处于世界领先地位。在过去的十年里，我们看到在英格兰，被录取攻读科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM学科）全日制本科学位的女性人数大幅增加。在上一个学年，英国大学所有STEM研究生中，女性占了一半以上。

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.

数据向我们表明，女性攀登成功阶梯越往上越难。尽管女性在大学本科生中占多数，但学术人员中女性比例略低于一半。在高级职位上，只有四分之一的教授是女性，而黑人女性占所有女性学术人员的不到2%。

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%, __34__ there is still some way to go to ensure women are rising through the ranks to higher grade positions and being paid __35__.

不同等级之间薪酬差异也很明显。基于2016-2017年整个行业中位数薪酬的性别薪酬差距为13.7%，这表明仍然需要努力确保女性能够晋升到更高等级职位并获得适当薪酬。