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1、同时应当为侨商归国工作、创业和生活提供更加便捷、适宜的环境，使得侨商归国后能够安心并专心于事业发展，提高海外高层次人才回国创新创业的热情Period TwoLesson 2The Paparazzi.阅读理解AAmerican colleges and universities awarded about one million seven hundred thousand bachelors degrees(学士学位) in the school year ending in 2010.57% of the receivers were girl students.Yet only 18%
2、of the girl students earned degrees in computer and information sciences.Reshma Saujani would like to change that.She started a program called “Girls Who Code”(编程女生) in 2011.Her goal is to get more girls interested in science and technology.“Its predicted that well have about 1.4 million jobs that a
3、re open in the next twenty years in the science and technologyrelated fields(领域)But only 29% of Americans today have the skills to actually fill those jobs.And many of those Americans are men.And less than 20% of women are actually going into the technology and sciencerelated professions.And so we h
4、ave a huge difference.”And she says the low number of women in the fields of science，technology，engineering and mathematics，also known as STEM，is caused by a big social problem.She says we live in a society that sends messages that girls should avoid these fields of study.“Girls Who Code” has partne
5、red with educators，engineers and businessmen.Twenty girls took part in the groups first eightweek program in the summer of 2011 in New York City.They learned how to build websites and create business plans.Ms.Saujani says companies have been very supportive of the group.Google was the first business
6、 to invest in the group.Reshma Saujani says if not for Google，“Girls Who Code” wouldnt exist.Twitter，General Electric，eBay and others have also provided support.Thanks to the support of these companies，she says，all the girls who took part in its first group plan to continue their STEM training.And s
7、he says，“Girls Who Code” hopes to train many more.1Reshma Saujani created “Girls Who Code” in order to_.Aprotect womens rights to take up some jobsBhelp the development of science and technologyCmake more people interested in science and technologyDtrain more women for jobs in science and technology
8、答案D解析细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句话“Her goal is to get more girls interested in science and technology.”再结合第三段Reshma Saujani的讲话可推断，她创建这个项目旨在使更多的女生能从事科技领域的职业。2In the third paragraph，Reshma Saujani is aiming at showing that_.Ait is necessary to start the programBits easy for women to find a sciencerelated jobCits u
9、nfair to forbid women to take up sciencerelated professionsDwomen are different from men in the ability to do some jobs答案A解析推理判断题。根据第三段“Its predicted that well have about 1.4 million jobs that are open in the next twenty years in the science and technologyrelated fields(领域)”可知，Reshma Saujani要表达的意思是科
10、技领域的求职前景很好，所以成立该组织是非常有必要的。3In Reshma Saujanis opinion，few women enter the technology and sciencerelated professions because_.Awomen is less clever and able than menBwomen arent interested in these professionsCthese professions are thought to be unfit for womenDlaws forbid them to take up these profe
11、ssions答案C解析细节理解题。根据第四段中的“.is caused by a big social problem.She says we live in a society that sends messages that girls should avoid these fields of study.”可知答案。4According to the passage，Reshma Saujani thought that the program_.Awas facing a lot of difficultiesBwas very successfulChad a little trou
12、ble getting popularDhad become popular across the country答案B解析推理判断题。根据最后一段提到的大公司的投资以及首批编程女生继续参加培训可推断，这个项目应该是很成功，所以才会继续下去，培养更多的人。BI am a good mother to three children.I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.I no longer consider myself the center of the universe
13、.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say.I am a good friend to my friends，and they to me.Without them，there would be nothing to say to you today.So heres what I wanted to tell you today：get a life.A real life，not a
14、desire of the next promotion(提升)，the bigger paycheck，the larger house.Get a life in which you are not alone.Find people you love，and who love you.And remember that love is not leisure(休闲) but work.Pick up the phone.Send an email.Write a letter.And realize that life is the best thing and that you hav
15、e no business taking it for granted.It is so easy to waste our lives，our days，our hours，and our minutes.It_is_so_easy_to_exist_instead_of_to_live.I learned to live many years ago.Something really，really bad happened to me，something that changed my life in ways that，if I had my choice，it would never
16、have been changed at all.And what I learned from it is what，today，seems to be the hardest lesson of all.I learned to love the journey，not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in the world and tried to give some of it back because I believed in it，completely and totally.And I tried to do that，in part，by telling o
