【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] 1-10 In April, the Manhattan Institute released its yearly study of graduation rates. The research group used information from two thousand three. The researchers found that seventy-two percent of girls successfully completed their high school education. That compared to sixty-five percent of boys. The newspaper Education Week noted earlier this year that, in some ways, what people are worried about now is really not new. Boys have scored lower than girls on tests in the National Assessment of Educational Progress since at least nineteen seventy-one. And the differences are not limited to the United States. Education Week noted the results of an international reading test in two thousand three. Fifteen-year-olds took the test in forty-one countries. Girls scored higher than boys in almost every country. Differences between males and females are a continuing issue of fierce debate. Cultural and economic influences play an important part. But recent findings suggest that another part of the answer lies in differences between the male and female brain. These include differences in learning rates. As a result, some researchers say, boys may not be able to develop language and reading skills as well as girls do. The last time there was a lot of concern about differences in school, it was about girls, especially in math and science classes. Efforts to improve the situation for girls included hiring more female teachers. Yet some people think the opposite situation exists now. They say not enough male teachers is one reason why boys may not learn as well in class. Another explanation being heard involves the increased testing in American schools. Some people say schools are preparing for these important tests by forcing boys to sit quietly at their desks. They say this is unfair. Still others say that society is failing boys, by giving them the message that studying is not manly. And others say boys are failing in school because they become too interested in the girls in their classes. One attempt to solve problems like these is the use of same-sex classrooms.

【正确答案】 B

【正确答案】 B

【正确答案】 A

【正确答案】 A

【正确答案】 B

【正确答案】 A

【正确答案】 A

【正确答案】 B

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解题思路] 本题主要考查考生对细节信息的听取和把握。这篇文章主要是关于女性在考试成绩上总体比男性要高之原因的解析。文章先以曼哈顿研究所公布的高中毕业率为例，女生的毕业率要比男生的高出7%。《教育周刊》的调查也显示，自1971年起，在国家教育进步评价的测试中，男生的分数都比女生低。它还指出，男女差异不仅在美国存在，几乎世界上所有国家都是如此。接下来，文章分析了产生这种现象的原因，文化和经济因素起着重要作用。但最近的发现指出，答案也许在于男女大脑的不同，这又包括学习率的差异，因此男生的语言和阅读能力都不如女生。最后，文章分析了男生在课堂上的学习效率不如女生的几个原因及解决方式。 [典型试题解析] 如第1题，题干中有“For the past two decades，...”录音中并没有出现，只提到“since at least 1971...”。这就要求考生自己做—个推断。又如第9题，题干是“Studying is not manly, so the boys are unwilling to study.”原文中指出，这只是一个猜测，还没有得到证实，所以答案选False。