选词填空部分原文：

　　"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. One of my proudest moments in my role as universities and science minister was being able to go some way to redress this injustice last month, by unveiling the new Mars rover named after this brilliant British scientist.

　　Today, on International Women's Day, it is only right that we recognise the important work of female scientists like Franklin and seek to honour her memory by inspiring more women and girls to follow in her footsteps.

　　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 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. The Athena SWAN charter, initially established to improve the representation of women in scientific disciplines in higher education, now has 145 members. It has also expanded to promote gender equality in multiple disciplines - including the arts, social sciences, humanities, business and law.

　　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. The government is taking further steps to improve women's representation in science and has today awarded nine inspiring women £50,000 to develop inventions to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities we face as a society. From new materials to cut down on plastics pollution to special devices to improve posture and comfort for wheelchair users, these women are at the forefront of creating the new technology for tomorrow.

　　This is significant progress, but access to higher education is only half of the equation. To have real equality in the sector, we need to ensure talented women are able to progress into the academic and leadership roles they desire, and get the remuneration they deserve.

　　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.

　　I welcome the introduction of pro-active strategies like the new initiative at the University of Leicester, which I am visiting today, to increase the number of female professors by 1.5% each year, with the overall goal of having 30% professorships held by women by 2020.

　　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) .

　　选词填空部分答案解析：

　　26. 答案为accessible，原文中考察be___ to 的固定搭配，根据原文中Rosalind Franklin所言：Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated，科学和日常生活密不可分，26题后有all这一关键词，因此锁定答案为accessible，意为所有人都有探索科学的权利。

　　27. 答案为overlooked，根据27之前were，可知27题处可能构成被动搭配，be+done结构，也可能是形容词，构成系表结构，又根据本文整体在讲科研界男女不平等的问题，二段开始提到了Franklin的贡献极大，27前有sadly，可知后面为微贬义词，因此选择overlook，意为忽略。

　　28. 答案为thankfully，根据28题处语法可知，缺少副词，又因其后有different 这一关键词，证明感情色彩与上文相反，因此选择thankfully。

　　29. 答案为promoting，根据语法可得，29题空处应为动词的ing形式，再根据用法，前为and，因此感情色彩应与空前一致，因此答案为promoting。

　　30. 答案为considerable，根据语法，此处应为形容词，顺应上文，应该是正向情感色彩，且后为增长之意，所以答案为表示大幅增长的considerable。

　　31. 答案为accounted， 根据语法可知，此处应填入动词，且为动词过去式，同时应与for构成短语搭配，又因从后文half of…处得知，应与数字有关，因此答案为account，意为占比。

　　32. 答案为ladder，根据语法可知，此处应填入名词，又因32题所在句子中有climb这一关键信息，可知文中想要表达为通往成功的阶梯，因此答案为ladder。

　　33. 答案为senior，根据语法可知，此处应填入形容词，又根据后文only a quarter of professors are women可知，此处想表达女教授最多只有四分之一。

　　34. 答案为suggesting，本题相对较难，有语法可知，此处应为分词引导做状语，有前后意思可知，前文表明女性还是有可能得到晋升的。

　　35. 答案为appropriately，根据语法可知，此处应填入副词且为中等偏褒义感情色彩词，结合34题句意可知，答案为appropriately。

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