What would life be like if you were a rocker, a soccer player, a professor (教授), and a Nobel Prize winner? Carolyn Bertozzi from the US lives such a cool life!
Bertozzi, aged fifty-six, became this year’s only woman winner in science and the eighth woman to receive the chemistry prize in history.
Bertozzi won the prize for studying the sugar coats of cells (细胞). She has found a great way to connect cells by connecting their sugar coats. Then the cells have a green color so that scientists can see clearly where they are and how they move.
Although she had great achievements, Bertozzi said she was not very interested in chemistry until her second year at Harvard University. “The professors intentionally (故意地) made the class very difficult,” she told Chemistry World magazine. “My classmates complained a lot, but it matched my brain.”
Besides doing science studies, Bertozzi has lived a colorful life. She was a keyboarder in a rock band. “I even used to think over studying in music,” she said. She also played soccer, and won an athletic scholarship (学金) from Harvard.
As a female scientist, Bertozzi tries to promote gender equality (提倡性别平等). “In the late 1980s, maybe 10 percent of the students were female,” she told Chemical & Engineering News. “There were maybe one or two women in a lab, so we tried to support each other by starting a monthly get-together for all the women students in the department.” In 2022, Bertozzi won an award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her work to increase gender equality in science.
8. Why did Bertozzi win this year’s Nobel Prize?
A.Because she invented a new treatment for cancer. |
B.Because she found a new type of cells with a green color. |
C.Because she is the eighth female professor at Stanford University. |
D.Because she found a way to link (链接) cells and make them clearer to see. |
9. What did Bertozzi think of her chemistry class in her second year at Harvard University?
A.Useless and difficult. | B.Boring and simple. | C.Difficult and boring. | D.Difficult and interesting. |
10. What can we learn from Paragraph 5?
A.Bertozzi once wrote songs for a rock band. |
B.Bertozzi once studied music at her university. |
C.Bertozzi lived a colorful life including doing studies. |
D.Bertozzi won many scholarships because of her talent in chemistry. |
11. How did Bertozzi promote gender equality in the 1980s?
A.She set an award for women in science. |
B.She built a new lab for girls to do research. |
C.She increased the number of female students by 10 percent. |
D.She started a women’s monthly get-together to help each other. |