单选题
Choose one of the four answers marked A, B, C, and D to complete the article. Write your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. Be sure that the number of the answers is in agreement with the number of the blanks. It is well known that teenage boys tend to do better【C1】______math than girls, that male high school students are more likely than their female counterparts【C2】______advanced math courses like calculus, that virtually all the great mathematicians【C3】______men. Are women bom with【C4】______mathematical ability? Or does society"s sexism slow their progress? In 1980 two Johns Hopkins University researchers tried【C5】______the eternal nature/ nurture debate. Julian Stanley and Camilla Benhow【C6】______10,000 talented seventh-and eighth-graders between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test in which math questions【C7】______to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discovered【C8】______sex differences. 【C9】______the verbal abilities of the males and females【C10】______differed, 【C11】______girls scored over 500(on a scale of 200 to 800) 【C12】______mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 to 1. The conclusion: males have【C13】______superior mathematical reasoning ability. Benhow and Stanley"s findings, 【C14】______are published in Science, disturbed some men and【C15】______women. Now there is【C16】______for those people in a new study from the University of Chicago that suggests math【C17】______not, after all, a natural male domain. Prof. Zalman Usiskin studied 1, 366 tenth-graders. They were selected from【C18】______classes and tested on their ability to solve geometry proofs, a subject requiring【C19】______abstract reasoning and spatial ability. The conclusion【C20】______by Usiskin: there are no sex differences in math ability.
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】解析:at表示“在……方面”。此句中的do better at…系从be good at搭配变化而来。
单选题
【C2】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析:此题主要考查likely的固定搭配。be likely to do sth./be likely that:有可能做某事,有可能……。
【答案解析】解析:此句为非限定性定语从句,排除选项D;选项B的design与math questions之间为被动关系,应用被动语态;be meant to do“有意要,打算”:mean to sb.“对……来说很重要”。此从句意为“(研究人员设计的)数学题是用来测试能力而非知识”。据此句意,选项A为正确答案。
【答案解析】解析:belief“信仰,信念”;dismay“沮丧,灰心”;comfort“慰藉,舒适”;courage“勇气,胆量”。从此句中的“…in a new study...that suggests math is not a natural male domain”可以推测出,新的研究结果给一些对此前研究成果感到困扰的人们带来了一些慰藉,故选C。