英语选词填空
After growing up on a cattle 1)----- without running water or electricity, Sandra Day O’Connor fought to achieve the best education possible. 2)------ graduating at the top of her class, she worked her way into Stanford Law School, where she graduated with honors. But despite all of her hard work, Sandra Day O’Connor was still a woman in the 1950s. Even with the 3)----- of her degree from Stanford, she was rejected from the entire law 4)----- as firms preferred to hire less 5)----- men rather than risk hiring a female lawyer, which was 6)-----. Yet Sandra Day O’Connor refused to give up on her dreams. Through sheer persistence she was eventually 7)-----and then 8)----- the first woman Supreme Court Justice of the United States of America. There, she acted as a 9)----- vote on issues like 10) -----and women’s rights.
1) ranch ( 大牧场，大农场 )
2) Consistently ( 一贯地 )
3) prestige ( 威信，威望，声望; 声誉 )
4) circuit ( 圈 )
5) qualified ( 有资格的; 胜任的; 适当的; 合格的 )
6) unprecedented ( 前所未有的，无前例的; 空前的 )
7) nominated ( 提名 ...… 为候选人; 任命 )
8) appointed ( 任命，委派 )
9) crucial ( 关键性的; 决定性的 )
10) abortion ( 流产; 堕胎 )