Banked Cloze The words "first black woman" have been used to describe Shirley Ann Jackson for so long that her name seems incomplete without them. She was the first black woman to earn a Ph. D. from MIT, the first black woman in the country to earn a physics doctorate, and she was both the first African American and the first woman to_______(25) the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Growing up in the late 1950’s and early 1960s, when the race for space was in full________(26), a young Jackson came to see the world around her as "full of ________(27)". For years, she collected bees and kept them under her family's back porch, _______(28) records of their behaviors as she adjusted variables like heat, light, and diet. "It was like reading a great mystery novel, "she recalls. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her passions, and her siblings. Two sisters and a brother, all _______(29) her natural talents for leadership. But it was the assistant principal at Washington D.C's Roosevelt High School who _______(30) her toward MIT. Today, even at such lofty posts as heading the NRC, Jackson says she is _________(31) doing the same thing she did way back with the bees: studying interactions in the environment around her, keen ________(32), and taking constructive action based on what she learned. Jackson strongly believes that________(33) must be "true friends" to one another and assist and encourage one another in their efforts. From her youngest days, she took time to _________(34) fellow women and minority students in their studies. That’s because, says Jackson, being a trailblazer(开路先锋) is only a good thing if one does not allow "high weeds" to grow back because no one was_______(35) follow. Jackson won't be satisfied to go down in history as the "first black woman" of anything _______(36) the familiar phrase is followed by two more words: " of many.”