Wow! Women now make up 57 per cent of university entrants, and they outnumber men in every subject — including maths and engineering. Speaking as an ardent feminist, I expect that this will have many wonderful results: a culture that is more feng shui and emotionally literate and altogether nicer, and an economy that benefits from unleashing the phenomenal energy and talents of British women who are — if GCSEs, A-levels and university entrance results mean anything -- currently giving the male sex a good old intellectual whipping. Obviously a corner of my heart worries about some aspects of the coming feminisation. Will we all become even more safety-conscious, regulation-prone and generally incapable of beating the Australians at anything than we already are? And even if the feminist revolution is good and unstoppable, we should perhaps consider some of the downsides — and the most interesting is that greater equality between the sexes is actually leading to greater division between the classes. Here's how. Since the emergence of our species, it has been a brutally sexist feature of romance that women on the whole — and I stress on the whole — will want to mate with men who are either on a par with themselves, or their superior, in socio-econ0mic and intellectual attainment. A recent study shows that if a man's IQ rises by 16 points, his chances of marrying increase by 35 per cent; if a woman's IQ rises by 16 points, her chances of getting hooked decline by the same amount. As a result of the same instinct — female desire to procreate with their intellectual equals — the huge increase in female university enrolments is leading to a rise in what the sociologists call assortative mating. The more middle-class graduates we create, the more they seem to settle down with other middle-class graduates, very largely because of the feminine romantic imperative already described. The result is that the expansion of university education has actually been accompanied by a decline in social mobility, and that is because these massive enrolments have been overwhelmingly middle-class. It is one of the sad failures of this Government that relatively few bright children from poor backgrounds have been encouraged to go to university, partly because of weaknesses in primary and secondary education, partly because of the withdrawal of the ladder of opportunity provided by academic selection. Once they have failed to go to university, the boom in the number of middle-class female students only intensifies their disadvantages. The result is that we have widening social divisions, and two particularly miserable groups: the female graduates who think men are all useless because they can't find a graduate husband, and the male non-graduates who feel increasingly domineered by the feminist revolution, and resentful of all these proud female graduates who won't give them the time of day. (474 words)
单选题
One result from women's majority in college recruitments is ______. A. male sex is outnumbered in most campuses B. women will be an economically boosting factor C. a-levels have begun to take on more weight D. enthusiastic feminists are less emotionally loaded
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】题干的提示信息women's majority in college recruitments直接指向第一段首句，但是result却出现在第二句的冒号后面，共有两个并列的后果。选项B来自第二个结果。选项A因为重复了题干的信息，所以无法回答“result”这个问题。选项C中的A-level出现在考点的句子里，但是选项的动词部分没有依据。选项D中的“女权主义者”也同样出现在考点里，但是谓语部分的“less emotionally loaded．”无关。
单选题
The data about IQ are mentioned by the author in order to ______. A. demonstrate sexual differences in marriage age B. prove the greater equality between the two sexes C. show the popular mating pattern on the female side D. discuss the unstoppable pro-feminist movement
单选题
The so-called "assortative mating" comes into being mainly because ______. A. more college graduates have middle class background B. social mobility tends to be greatly enhanced by education C. middle class students are unwilling to cooperate with others D. female graduates favor those with equal intellectual status
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】题干中的“assortative mating”来自第四段首句，其中有两个因果关系的标记：as a result of…lead to…选项D符合female desire to procreate with their intellectual equals的信息。选项A的中产阶级在第四段后面的句子中有所提及，但是并不符合题意。选项B有两个问题。一是来源不对；二是表达了同文章the expansion of university education has actually been accompanied by a decline in social mobility相反的信息。选项C的动词部分没有出现在文章里。
单选题
From the context we know that "their disadvantages" (para.5) imply ______. A. it is becoming more difficult for clever but poor children now B. the government failed to cater to middle class female needs C. the ladder of opportunity is denied to most of the bright kids D. male uselessness is greatly exaggerated by some females
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】这个代词their的指代对象是上文所说的那些聪明的孩子，弄明白代词的含义，A并不难选择。选项B所指的female needs和文章内容不符，文章说“政府使一些家境不好但是天资聪明”的孩子失去了接受教育的机会。选项C使用了most of the bright kids，显然与文章不符。选项D出自最后一段，已经远离考点的位置。
单选题
The passage is mainly concerned with ______. A. sexual inequality in education B. female dilemma in mating C. social prejudice against women D. expansion in college enrolment