Unit 13 The mystery of the Moonstone

    閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36—55各題所給的四個選項(a、b、c和d)中，選出最佳選項。it was the first day of school, 1961. five-year-old mae carol jemison was a  1   kindergartener who could already read. when her teacher asked her, “  2    do you want to be when you grow up?” mae replied, “a scientist.” her teacher looked   3   : not many women became scientists then, and certainly  4    black women. but that was mae’s first and only  5    .mae’s love for science  6   her to the library. she read books about the universe. she also enjoyed science fiction books. in sixth grade she read madeline l’engle’s books a wrinkle in time and the arm of the starfish. “those books stand out  7   they had women scientists and girl heroines,” mae remembers.books weren’t the only way mae learned. she was active in student government, acted in plays, and studied dance. “in dance class, i grew stronger and gained an   8   for hard work, physical strength, and grace,” she says.when mae was 12, there were civil rights demonstrations（游行） near her neighborhood in chicago.  9   protests（抗議） before an important political meeting, the mayor of chicago called  10  the national guard, which marched through mae’s mostly african-american neighborhood with guns. mae watched,  11  , confused（使迷惑）, and angry. she promised herself she would never feel that frightened again. “i reminded myself  12  i was as much a part of this united states as the guardsmen,” she remembers.in college, mae studied the physical and social sciences, and learned to speak russian and the african language swahili. she  13   a degree in chemical engineering and african studies. after college, she studied medicine for four years, and became a medical doctor. in 1987, mae was  14  into nasa’s astronaut program. she  15   in texas, learning about space exploration. she worked for nasa, and waited for a shuttle assignment（太空飛行任務(wù)）.when the space aircraft endeavor was sent into the sky into orbit in 1992, mae   16  the first african-american woman  17   the earth. mae looked down from endeavor and saw chicago. she remembered visiting the library, making science fair projects, and dancing. “i felt like i  18   right there in space,” she remembers. “i realized i would feel comfortable  19   in the universe because i belonged to and was a part of it,  20   any star, planet, asteroid（小行星）， comet（彗星）, or nebula（星云）.”