2012高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练(江苏专用) 专题4 完形填空 10 (35分钟) (A) 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 As an engineering student, I had a degree and three good job offers. I can’t help trembling when I hear about studies that show that women are at a __1 when es to math. However, I discovered: just because a subject is 2 to learn, it does not __3_ you are not good at it. You just have to grit your teeth and work harder to get good at it. _4 you do, there’s a strong chance you will enjoy it more than anything else. In eighth grade I took algebra(代数学). On one test I got only 36 percent of the __5 answers. I failed the next one, too. I started to _6_ that maybe I’m just not good at this. I was lucky enough to have a teacher who didn’t take my bad grades as a judgment of my 7 _, but 8 as an indication that I should study more. He _ 9 me aside and told me he knew I could do better. He let me _10 the tests, and I pulled my grade up to an A. I studied a lot in college, too. I had moments of fear while sitting below the buzzing fluorescent lights in the 11 library on Saturday afternoons, when I __12_that the estrogen (雌性激素) in my body was 13_ me from understanding thermodynamics (热力学). But the _14 _ in my classes had to work just as hard, and I knew that I couldn’t _15 to lose confidence in myself. I didn’t want to choose between my femininity(女性)and a good career. _16__ I reminde