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[高考复习指南] 2017届高考英语一轮专项训练:阅读理解(3)及答案

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  阅读下面短文,从每题所给的ABCD四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

  Historians usually just study great things that happened in the past time, but Drew Faust has made history! On February 11, 2007, Faust was named president of Harvard University. She is the first woman to hold the position in the schools 371-year history.

  “I am a historian,” she said. “Ive spent a lot of time thinking about the past, and about how it shapes the future. No university in the country, perhaps the world, has as remarkable a past as Harvards.”

  “And our common enterprise is to make Harvards future even more remarkable than its past. That will mean recognizing and building on what we already do well. It will also mean recognizing what we dont do as well as we should, and not being satisfied until we find ways to do better.”

  It is her great desire for improvement and willingness to try out new ideas that have given Drew success in a world controlled by men. “This is a mans world, my girl, and the sooner you learn that, the better off youll be.” Drew Faust recalls her mother telling her this when she was young, but she didnt buy it.

  Faust grew up in a well-off family in Virginias Shenandoah Valley in the 1950s. Even then, she was a trailblazer(先驱). A conversation with her familys black handyman (零工) and driver inspired her to write a letter, on school notebook paper, to President Dwight Eisenhower.

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