Caroline's Turkish career has traditionally been dominated by men. In this article, she talked about how she caught up with this industry, and through her success, she showed that men can learn and women can do it.

When I was a child, everything in my bedroom was pink. I have two sisters. We have a miniature kitchen, a group of colorful ponies, and some Barbie dolls and Kane dolls. We have no toy trucks, no toy soldiers and no basketball. We do have a set of hollow baseball, but it's hard to find it in our game room. After all, we are not fools.

Because of this, some people may be surprised that I will become a mechanical engineer when I grow up. In fact, I am the only female engineer in the company. In order to get a college diploma, I have to take many math and science courses. As part of the national competition, I have to cooperate with several students to convert a gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle into a hybrid vehicle. So I learned to repair cars. I am proud to say, "All my subjects are A's, including multivariate calculus and differential equations". My math design has always been good, but I don't know what the result will be. My family wants me to go to college, but no one told me that I would be an excellent engineer one day.

I knew nothing about engineering in high school. At that time, I couldn't tell the difference between a transmission and an alternator. My car needs repairing, but I dare not send it to the mechanic. Because to be honest, if the mechanic showed me an electric can opener, he said to me, "This is part of your car. If it is broken, you pay me and I will help you repair it. " I didn't know he was blackmailing.

When I finished senior three, I heard that there was a summer school to cultivate girls' interest in engineering. This course lasts for six weeks and there is no charge. Students can also get college credits and enjoy a room in the undergraduate dormitory in Maryland. I applied for this summer school not because I want to be an engineer, but because I want to be independent and away from my parents' home for six weeks.

I was admitted to this summer class and got 6 engineering credits. The next year I went to this university and majored in engineering. Five years later, I got my degree and three decent jobs.

Listening and speaking research shows that women are at a disadvantage in learning mathematics. I tremble. What they mean is that I'm a little abnormal. I'm not surprised at all, but I know that if I hadn't entered that summer school by accident, I wouldn't have become an engineer.

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Like many students, as I grew up, I was told to do what I do best. But I don't know what I'm good at. Many people think that if you are good at something, you can learn it easily. But just because I think a course is difficult to learn doesn't mean you are not good at it. You must grit your teeth and study harder. Once you learn it well, you may like it and get unparalleled pleasure from it.

When I studied algebra in the eighth grade, I only got 36% of the questions correctly in one exam. Once I failed in the exam, I thought, maybe my algebra is not very good. Fortunately, I have a teacher who doesn't measure my ability by my low score, but thinks that low score only means that I need to study harder. He took me aside and told me that she knew I could learn better. He asked me to retake the exam. I raised my score to A this time.

I also worked hard in college. On Saturday afternoon, I sat under the squeaky fluorescent light of the engineering library. For a time, I was worried that estrogen in my body would make me unable to understand thermodynamics. But the boys in our class should also study hard. I know I can't lose confidence in myself. I don't want to be a woman anymore, so I choose the best and middle job. So I remind myself that the saying that men are naturally good at mathematics is based on a wrong premise, that is, people can judge a person's ability directly from the social and cultural influence he or she received when he or she was a child. Men are not islands and women are not islands.

Why limit yourself so quickly? I don't deny that most little girls like dolls and most little boys like video games. Maybe some people really like to use the right hemisphere of the brain, while others like to use the left hemisphere. But what does this have to do with me or anyone else? Why draw the conclusion that the differences between people are related to the brain instead of focusing on the incredible flexibility we have? Maybe we should consider that our brains may be much bigger than we think, instead of using what we know to explain why women can't learn physics.

The secret is that it is not easy for most people to learn math or science. No one is born to understand calculus, and women who can learn it can learn it. But first, women need to know that they can learn, which requires the spirit of taking the risk of catching a cold. At the same time, you must choose to listen to others' voices.

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The second part includes three parts: text, vocabulary and exercises. Footnotes are used for text annotation, and the exercise part mainly includes the following aspects: 1, text understanding; 2. Text structure; 3. Language sense training; 4. Language practice.

The third part includes three parts: supplementary text, vocabulary and exercises. The annotation of the text is also in the form of footnotes. Each lesson lists 20 CET-4 words and phrases as reusable words in practice. The rest of the new words and phrases can be found in the glossary at the back of this book. The exercises include multiple-choice questions about the content of the text, sentence translation and word filling, and the answers to the exercises are attached at the back of the book.

The fourth part is to further deepen the comprehensive oral and written exercises. This is after students have passed positive and negative texts and research and a series of language exercises. On the premise of mastering the content and language expression of related topics. It mainly consists of two parts: group discussion and classroom writing. The latter is based on the former, and there is a written composition for students' reference in the appendix of exercise answers at the end of the book.

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