2020 英语真题及解析
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[D] financed researchers generously.
28. How does the author feel about the success of Sci-Hub?
[A] Relieved.
[B] Puzzled.
[C] Concerned
[D] Encouraged.
29. It can be learned from Paragraphs 5 and 6 that open access terms________
[A]allow publishers some room to make money.
[B] render publishing much easier for scientists.
[C] reduce the cost of publication substantially.
[D] free universities from financial burdens.
30. Which of the following characteristics the scientific publishing model?
[A] Trial subscription is offered.
[B] Labour triumphs over status.
[C] Costs are well controlled.
D] The few feed on the many.
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Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field. But
all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does
little to help average people.
A pair of bills sponsored by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore
Patricia Haddad, to ensure "gender parity" on boards and commissions, provide a case in point.
Haddad and Lewis are concerned that more than half the state-government boards are less than 40 percent
female. In order to ensure that elite women have more such opportunities, they have proposed imposing
government quotas. If the bills become law, state boards and commissions will be required to set aside 50 percent
of board seats for women by 2022.
The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in Califomia, which last year became the first state to
require gender quotas for private companies. In signing the measure, California Governor Jerry Brown admitted
that the law, which expressly classifies people on the basis of sex, is probably unconstitutional.
The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an
"important" policy interest, Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of
prior discrimination, courts are likely to rule that the law violates the constitutional guarantee of "equal
protection".
But are such government mandates even necessary? Female participation on corporate boards may not
currently mirror the percentage of women in the general population, but so what?
The number of women on corporate boards has been steadily increasing without government interference.
According to a study by Catalyst, between 2010 and 2015 the share of women on the boards of global
corporations increased by 54 percent.
Requiring companies to make gender the primary qualification for board membership will inevitably lead to
less experienced private sector boards. That is exactly what happened when Norway adopted a nationwide
corporate gender quota.
Writing in The New Republic, Alice Lee notes that increasing the number of opportunities for board
membership without increasing the pool of qualified women to serve on such boards has led to a “golden skirt
"phenomenon, where the same elite women scoop up multiple seats on a variety of boards.
Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies
are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.