Passage 1
It is well known that teenage boys tend to do better 1)______ math than girls, that male high school students are more likely than their female counterparts 2)______ advanced math cours like calculus, that virtually all the great mathematicians 3)______ men. Are women born with 4)______ mathematical ability? Or does society’s xism slow their progress? In 1980, two Johns Hopkins University rearchers tried 5)______ the eternal nature/nurture debate. Julian Stanley and Camilla Benbow 6)______ 10,000 talented venth and eighth graders between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test, in which math questions are meant to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discovered 7)______ x differences. 8)______ the verbal abilities of the males and females 9)______ differed, twice as many boys as girls scored over 500 (on a scale of 200 to 800) on mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 to 1. The conclusion: males have 10)______ superior mathematical reasoning ability.
Benbow and Stanley’s findings, 11)______ were published in "Science", disturbed some men and 12)______ women. Now there is comfort for tho people in a new study from the University of Chicago that suggests math 13)______ not, after all, a natural male domain. Prof. Zalman Usiskin studied 1,366 tenth graders. They were lected from geometry class and tested on their ability to so
lve geometry proofs, a subject requiring 14)______ abstract reasoning and spatial ability. The conclusion 15)______ by Usiskin: there are no x differences in math ability.
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3.A. might beB. have beenC. must be D. had been
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8.A. Since B. HoweverC. As D. While
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10.A. superficially B. universallyC. inherently?D. initially
11.A. as B. that C. which D. all
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13.A. be B. wereC. was D. is
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15.A. gotB. gained C. reached?D. accomplished
答案:
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. A
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6. D
7. A
8. D
9. D10. C
11. C12. B13. D14. D15. C