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Far from the traditional image of a culture of aggressive masculinity (阳刚), the absence of girls gives boys the chance to develop without pressure to obey a stereotype (陈规旧俗), a US study says.
Boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they had to obey the "boy code" of hiding their emotions to be a "real man".
The findings of the study go against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.
Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being failed by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.
The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.
But in single-sex schools teachers can tailor lessons to boys" learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study"s author, Abigail James, of the University of Virginia.
Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with "boy-focused" approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them.Because boys generally have more acute vision learn best through touch, an are physically more active, they need to be given "hands-on" lessons where they are allowed to walk around; "Boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine (女性的) and prefer the modem type in which violence and sexism are major themes, "James wrote.
Single-sex education also made it less likely that boys would feel they had to obey a stereotype that men should be "masterful and in charge" in relationships."In mixed schools boys feel forced to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means," the study reported.
小题1:The author believes that a single-sex school would ____.
A.force boys to hide their emotions to be "real men" |
B.encourage boys to express their emotions more freely |
C.help to cultivate masculine aggressiveness in boys |
D.naturally reinforce in boys the traditional image of a man |
A.perform relatively better |
B.grow up more healthily |
C.behave more responsibly |
D.receive a better education |
A.It fails more boys than girls academically. |
B.It focuses more on mixed school education. |
C.it fails to give boys the attention they need. |
D.It places more pressure on boys than on girls. |
A.teaching can be tailored to suit the characteristics of boys |
B.boys can focus on their lessons without being distracted |
C.boys can choose to learn whatever they are interested in |
D.teaching can be designed to promote boys" team spirit |
A.They enjoy being in charge. |
B.They obey stereotypes. |
C.They are violent and sexist. |
D.They have sharper vision. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:D
解析
试题分析:文章主要介绍了全是男生学校对于男孩子的发展更为有用,他们能够更加自由的表达他们的感情,同时也介绍了为什么是这样的原因。
小题1:从文章Boys" schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and music.可知,全是男生的学校有利于他们更加自由地表达他们的情感,故选B
小题2:从文章The findings of the study go against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.可知普遍认为在混合学校男孩子会做的更好一些,而其实不然,故选A
小题3:从文章Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being failed by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.可知老师们没有给男孩应该被给与的关注度,故选C
小题4:细节题。从But in single-sex schools teachers can tailor lessons to boys" learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study"s author, Abigail James,可知她认为男孩子在这样的学校中学习老师能够因材施教,符合他们的个性来教学,故选A
小题5:细节题。从Because boys generally have more acute vision learn best through touch可知男孩子有更为敏锐的观点和视觉,故选D
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试题【Boys" schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Overpopulation is one of the main causes behind the threatening of poverty on an individual level as well as a social level.This is simple math: If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor.
Another theory which is used as an explanation for poverty is lack of education.If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low.Lack of education means lack of employment opportunities, thus leading to unemployment coupled with poverty in the future.
Moving away from one"s own homeland to another city or country in search of employment leads to poverty too.It may take these people a lot of time to find jobs.Meanwhile they live in bad conditions.The cost of living in the city or country is most of the time too high for them.
There may be other causes of poverty like the change in business.For example, in America, a couple of decades ago, heavy industry flourished, which employed a lot of African-American people.But now, the focus is more on information technology and health care, both of which employ only skilled and trained people.This has led to unemployment among African-Americans.
Poverty has many ill effects on society.That"s why steps should be taken to get rid of it!
小题1:What"s the meaning of the underlined word "flourished" in Paragraph 5?
(No more than 5 words)
小题2:Why is overpopulation a cause of poverty today? (No more thanl2 words)
小题3:What"s the situation of education m underdeveloped countries? (No more than 8 words)
小题4:What does the passage mainly talk about?(No more than 10 words)
小题5:In your opinion, what"s the most significant cause of poverty today? Please give your reason.(No more than 25 words)
Overpopulation is one of the main causes behind the threatening of poverty on an individual level as well as a social level. This is simple math. If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor.
Another theory which is used as an explanation for poverty is lack of education. If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low. Lack of education means lack of employment opportunities, thus leading to unemployment coupled with poverty in the future.
Moving away from one’s own homeland to another city or country in search of employment leads to poverty too. It may take these people a lot of time to find jobs. Meanwhile they live in bad conditions. The cost of living in the city or country is most of the time too high for them.
There may be other causes of poverty like the change in business. For example, in America, a couple of decades ago, heavy industry flourished, which employed a lot of African-American people. But now, the focus is more on information technology and health care, both of which employ only skilled and trained people. This has led to unemployment among African-Americans.
Poverty has many ill effects on society. That’s why steps should be taken to get rid of it!
小题1:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “flourished” in Paragraph 5?
(No more than 5 words)
小题2:Why is overpopulation a cause of poverty today? (No more than12 words)
小题3:What’s the situation of education in underdeveloped countries? (No more than 8 words)
小题4:What does the passage mainly talk about? (No more than 10 words)
小题5:In your opinion, what’s the most significant cause of poverty today? Please give your reason. (No more than 25 words)
I visited the nearby car factory today with my uncle, who works there. One thing I noticed was that most of the work is now done by robots. Welding (焊接), painting, testing, and many other jobs are performed by robots now.
The whole dashboard (
仪表板) of the car is now put into the car from above, through the windshield, by a robot. It would have taken two men to do this in the past, and it would have hurt their backs quite a bit. It got me thinking: is it a good thing that robots are replacing factory workers? On one hand, robots generally do a more accurate job than people. They aren’t likely to make many mistakes, and if something goes wrong with one car, an alarm goes off. They do exactly the same thing, every time, without fail. A human worker is never able to do exactly the same thing every time. On the other hand, robots also reduce costs for companies. Companies don’t have to pay robots wages or injury compensation (补偿) if they’re broken. If something in a robot does go wrong, it won’t have to take time off work for a year, or even forever, as could happen to a real person if he breaks his back or burn himself while welding.
The obvious downside to all of this is that it increases the unemployment rate.
The company will have to bring in some very talented individuals who know how to operate the robots. Unlike regular factory workers, these intelligence workers usually demand a higher pay.小题1:
We can learn from the first paragraph that _______.
A.all the workers are replaced by robots now
B.robots do much of the work instead of workers now
C.there were no workers in the car factory
D.the author’s uncle made robots in the factory
小题2:According to the text robots _______.
A.can do work as accurately as workers
B.never break down
C.can do exactly the same thing repeatedly
D.ask for less money from companies
小题3:The underlined word "downside" in the last paragraph probably means "_______".
A.weakness B.favor C.assistance D.strength
小题4:It can be inferred from the last paragraph that _______.
A.companies refuse to pay for intelligence workers
B.robots have helped all of the workers
C.robots can help solve the problem of unemployment
D.using robots in factories widely will have a long way to go
小题5:What is the author’s attitude towards using robots in factories?
A.He is doubtful about it.
B.He thinks it necessary.
C.He is strongly against it. D. The text doesn’t mention it.
They are calling for greater efforts to increase awareness of the rights of such children to have text books in design other than standard (标准) print. The campaign is being supported by five times Olympic gold medalist, Sir Steve Redgrave, who has reading trouble.
Pupils have the right to receive text in another way, and parents can take action under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) if they feel their children are being treated in a different way through a lack of support. But new research suggests 89 per cent of print disabled pupils and their parents are unaware of software which changes standard print into other substitutes like combined text and audio files (音频) which can be read or listened to.
Sir Steve has teamed up with software company Dolphin Computer Access to raise awareness of software turning tools. He said: "I recognize that schools have competing priorities (优先权) for their resources (资源), but I would like to see a much greater effort on the part of the government and schools to raise awareness among parents that these additional solutions exist and that their children have a right to use them."
Mike Foster, Dolphin"s local MP in Worcester, is backing the campaign. "There is clearly an issue to solve concerning software for special needs. I"ll be asking ministers what steps can be taken to improve the situation", he said.
小题1:What is the best title of this text?
A.Awareness of legal rights among parents | B.Campaign started for disabled children |
C.Problems of disabled children | D.Steve — Olympic gold medalist |
A.holding back | B.objecting to | C.supporting | D.controlling |
________.
A.don’t know anything about such software |
B.must cooperate with the software company |
C.prefer combined text and audio files more |
D.must take action to receive text in another way |
________.
A.government and schools raise awareness of disabled children’s legal rights |
B.parents take greater efforts to ask the government and schools for help |
C.parents should take action to raise awareness of software turning tools |
D.software company work with him to make the products |
________.
A.the ministers should be responsible for improving the situation |
B.the software for special needs has got well along |
C.the problem about software for special needs is to be dealt with |
D.how to use the software is a big problem |
The authors also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased greatly after 10 p.m., and especially after midnight. With passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident.
Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience. “The basic issue is that adults who are responsible for giving out licenses fail to recognize how complex and skilled driving is.” he says.
Both he and the author of the study believe that the way to mitigate (使缓解) the problem is to have states set up so-called graduated licensing systems, in which getting a license is a process with several stages. A graduated license requires that a teenager first prove himself able to drive in the presence(在场)of an adult, followed by a period of driving with night of passenger restrictions (限制) before graduating to full driving rights.
Graduated licensing systems have reduced teenage driver crashes, according to recent studies.
小题1:Which of the following situations is most dangerous according to the passage?
A.Adults giving a lift to teenagers on the highway after 10 p.m. |
B.Adults driving with three or more teenage passengers late at night. |
C.A teenager driving after midnight with passengers in the car. |
D.A teenager getting a lift from a stranger on the highway at midnight. |
A.their frequent driving at night | B.their lack of driving experience |
C.their wrong way of driving | D.their driving with passengers |
A.Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive. |
B.Driving is a skill too complex for teenagers to learn. |
C.Restrictions should be forced on teenagers demanding to take driving licenses. |
D.The licensing department is partly responsible for teenagers’ driving accidents. |
A.driving in the presence of an adult should be made a rule |
B.they should be forbidden to take on passengers |
C.they should not be allowed to drive after 10 pm |
D.the licensing system should be improved |
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