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Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers.
The seven-member Harvard Corporation elected Faust, a noted scholar on History of the American South and dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, as the university’s 28th president.
“This is a great day, and a historic day, for Harvard,” James R. Houghton, chairman of the presidential search committee, said in a statement. “Drew Faust is an inspiring and accomplished leader, a superb scholar, a dedicated teacher, and a wonderful human being.”
Her selection is noteworthy given the heated debates over Summers’ comments that genetic differences between the sexes might help explain the lack of women in top science jobs.
Faust has been dean of Radcliffe since 2001, two years after the former women’s college was combined into the university as a research center with a mission to study gender issues.
Some professors have quietly groused that the 371-year-old university is appointing a fifth president who is not a scientist. No scientist has had the top job since James Bryant Conant retired in 1953; its last four have come from the fields of classics, law, literature and economics.
Faust is the first Harvard president who did not receive a degree from the university since Charles Chauncy, a graduate of Cambridge University, who died in office in 1762. She attended the University of Pennsylvania.
“Teaching staff turned to her constantly,” said Sheldon Hackney, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania and historian who worked closely with Faust. “She’s very clear. She has a sense of humor, but she’s very strong-minded. You come to trust in her because she’s so solid.”
【小題1】Which might be the best title for the passage?

A．Harvard named its first female president.

B．History of Harvard University changed.

C．Debates on female equality ended.

D．Drew Gilpin Faust, a famous woman historian.

【小題2】Which is NOT true about Drew Gilpin Faust?

A．She is the 28th president of Harvard University.

B．She is a famous scholar from the American South.

C．She isn’t a graduate from Harvard University.

D．She was head of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

【小題3】The underlined word “groused” in the 6th paragraph means____ .

A．approved

B．commented

C．complained

D．indicated

【小題4】This passage probably appears in a____ .

A．biography

B．personal letter

C．research paper

D．newspaper report

Answer 1

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解析試題分析：本文主要講述了哈佛大學選出了歷史上第一位女校長，以及各方面對此的反應。
【小題1】A 主旨大意題。根據文章主題段第一段Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers.可知本文主要講述的是哈佛大學歷史上第一個女校長Drew Gilpin Faust故A正確。
【小題2】B 細節題。根據第二段a noted scholar on History of the American South and dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study可知她是一個研究美國南方歷史的學者，并不是說她來自美國南方。故B正確。
【小題3】C 推理題。根據文章倒數第三段Some professors have quietly groused that the 371-year-old university is appointing a fifth president who is not a scientist. No scientist has had the top job since James Bryant Conant retired in 1953; its last four have come from the fields of classics, law, literature and economics.可知很多教授都在抱怨沒有任命一個科學家來作為哈佛大學的校長，自從James Bryant Conant在1953年退休以后，哈佛就沒有科學家做校長。故C正確。
【小題4】D 推理題。本文屬于新聞報告類短文，介紹了哈佛大學推選出的新的校長Drew Gilpin Faust。最可能出現在某篇新聞報告上，故D正確。
考點：考察新聞報告類短文閱讀
點評：本文主要講述了哈佛大學選出了歷史上第一位女校長，以及各方面對此的反應。本文考查細節題為主，細節題可以在文章中直接找到與答案有關的信息?或是其變體。搜查信息在閱讀中非常重要它包括理解作者在敘述某事時使用的具體事實、數據、圖表等細節信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都屬于這類圍繞主體展開的細節。做這類題一般采用尋讀法?即先讀題，然后帶著問題快速閱讀短文，找出與問題有關的詞語或句子，再對相關部分進行分析對比，找出答案。