2020江苏高考英语二轮培优新方案：专题限时检测(二十九)任务型阅读(四)

?Different from men, their previous experiences help them work their way to the (4)________ of their career ladder. ? All these female leaders (5)________ their success to their family environment. ◇ Unlike other children in her village, Igoye received (6)________ with Findings of the author's research her sisters. ◇ Ben Said was encouraged to debate among the family even when her opinions went (7)________ her father's. ◇ Despite the general convention of (8)________ well, Chahal was brought up otherwise. ?Women leaders have to work (9)______ than men counterparts to live up to people's expectations. Conclusion Female leadership (10)________ a lot to a nation and its women as well. 语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文，主要阐述了一些世界上成功女性领导人的共同之处——她们都有鼓励她们发表自己见解的开明的父母。

1．similarity/similarities 根据第一段第一句“On the surface, one would be hard-pressed to find many similarities”可知答案。

2．freely/casually 根据第二段中的“Every single one of them talked about finding their voices and their confidence at dinner-table conversations with their families.”可知，她们是被鼓励在吃饭的时候自由地发表自己的看法的。

3．exposed 根据第二段中的“Their parents talked about politics, about what was happening in the community ...”可知，他们经常听到父母谈论政治，所以他们有更多的机会接触政治话题。be exposed to“接触”。

4．top 根据第一段的内容，以及第三段第一句“As part of a series of interviews on women and leadership”可知，Madsen所研究的对象都是一些女性领导人，所以她们都是一些到达职业生涯顶峰的人。the top of their career ladder“职业生涯的顶峰”。

5．owed/attributed 根据第四段第一句“All three of my interviewees pointed to the family environment they had been raised in ...”可知，三位受访者都指出了她们的家庭环境，由此推断她们都把自己的成功归功于她们的家庭环境。owe/attribute ...to“把……归功于”，固定

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6．education/schooling 根据第五段第一句“Igoye, for example, credited her father with having the foresight to send his daughters to school despite opposition from others in their village”可知，Igoye的家庭不顾小镇的反对将她和她的姐妹送入学校接受教育。

7．against 根据第五段中的“Similarly, Ben Said talked about how her father encouraged political debate ... even when her opinions contradicted his.”可知，即使是在与父亲的观点相矛盾的时候，Ben 的父亲总是鼓励她发表自己的政治见解。go against 与contradict同义。 8．marrying 根据第五段最后一句“Chahal said that even in her younger days, her parents went against the general convention of expecting their daughters to aim only for a good husband.”可知，她的父母在当时就打破了女人只需要嫁个好丈夫的传统想法(坚持让她积极参与政治话题)。

9．harder 根据第七段第一句“Actually, women leaders tend to be held to higher standards than their male counterparts.”可知，女性领袖要比男性同行维持更高的标准，也就是要更努力工作。

10．means/matters 根据最后一段最后一句“how much of a voice the women leaders are having, influences what leadership is and what it means to its women.”可知，女性领导人的发言权，影响一个政权的领导班子，同样也影响到女性。matter/mean lot“很重要”。

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