Three respectable women
Many famous people have made great contributions to the world, but most of them have been known as males. Females have also been making their hidden contributions to our world in their own ways. Do you know the following three respectable women with great achievements? Let’s have a look!
Maria Sibylla Merian
Until the 1670s, scientists thought that caterpillars and butterflies were two totally different creatures. Thanks to Maria Sibylla Merian, we know the truth about these winged insects. She began collecting, studying and drawing them when she was young. She was one of the few naturalists of her time who actually studied live insects. It was through her study of caterpillars that she discovered the truth about their life cycles.
Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly, a famous journalist, was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. When a Pittsburgh Dispatch journalist wrote an article saying that working women were unacceptable, Bly wrote an argument that got her a job offer from the newspaper. What made her well-known was that she spent sometime living in a mental institution to make everyone know the conditions the patients faced. In 1889, she set out to travel around the world. And she made it.
Alice Coachman Davis
Alice Coachman Davis was the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal. She grew up in Georgia, where females were not allowed to join sports teams. So she trained on her own. Finally, Coachman competed in the 1948 Olympic Games in London, where she not only won gold medal but set a record in the high jump.
【小题1】What’s Maria Sibylla Merian’s contribution?| A．Creating the study of live creatures. |
| B．Telling the differences of winged insects. |
| C．Picturing the evolution of winged insects. |
| D．Discovering caterpillars’ relation with butterflies. |
| A．Being the youngest female journalist. |
| B．Her argument for working women. |
| C．Showing truth about a mental institution. |
| D．Her record of travelling in the world. |
| A．One should hold their horses. | B．It is never too old to learn. |
| C．We can kill two birds with one stone. | D．Where there is a will there is a way. |
