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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（接任者）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.

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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 1st 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】Lawrence Summers held the view that      .

A．women cannot achieve as much as men in management

B．women cannot hold important positions in society

C．women can match men in science jobs

D．few women make top scientists owing to genes

【小題4】The underlined word “groused” in the 6th paragraph means       .

A．approved

B．commented

C．complained

D．indicated

【小題5】This passage probably appears in a      .

A．biography

B．personal letter

C．research paper

D．newspaper report

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】B
【小題3】D
【小題4】C
【小題5】D

解析試題分析：哈佛大學任命著名歷史學家吉爾平·福斯特為第28任校長，福斯特也成為哈佛自1636年建校以來首位女校長。自哈佛大學前校長薩默斯被迫辭職以來，哈佛校長人選一直懸而未決。如今，福斯特終于正式接過這座美國歷史最悠久的高等學府的權杖了。
【小題1】標題歸納題。根據Harvard University named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president 故選A。
【小題2】細節(jié)理解題。根據a noted scholar on History of the American South 她是研究美國南部歷史的著名的學者，故選B。
【小題3】細節(jié)理解題。根據genetic differences between the sexes might help explain the lack of women in top science jobs兩性之間的遺傳差異可能有助于解釋缺乏女性在頂級科學工作，故選D。
【小題4】詞義猜測題。根據下文可推知它指的是“抱怨”，故選C。
【小題5】文章出處題。根據文章的內容可知它應該出現在新聞報道上。故選D。
考點：新聞報道類短文閱讀。
點評：標題歸納題一般來說，標題的寫作格式是：以話題為中心，將控制性概念的詞按一定的語法濃縮為概括主題句句意或中心思想的詞組。做此類題時，要避免如下三種錯誤：一是概括不夠。多表現為部分替代整體。二是過度概括。多表現為人為擴大范圍。三是以事實、細節(jié)替代抽象的大意。