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.
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.”
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.
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.
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
4.The underlined word “groused” in the 6th paragraph
means .
A．approved B．commented C．complained D．indicated
5.This passage probably appears in a .
A．biography B．personal
letter C．research
paper D．newspaper
report
