Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex. How would you (1)_____? Unless there was (2)_____ definitely wrong with you, you wouldn"t be too happy about it, to (3)_____ the least. It is all the (4)_____ surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such (5)_____ conditions (6)_____ their children—conditions which they themselves wouldn"t put up with for one minute! Any discussion of this topic is (7)_____ to question the aims of education. Stuffing children"s heads full of knowledge is (8)_____ being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of education is to (9)_____ future citizens with all they require to (10)_____ their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school (11)_____ offer the right kind of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a (12)_____. A co-educational school offers children nothing (13)_____ a true (14)_____ of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the (15)_____ to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare them selves with each other (16)_____ academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extracurricular activities which are (17)_____ of school life. What a (18)_____ advantage it is (to give just an example) to be able to put on a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls! What (19)_____ co-education makes of the argument that boys are cleverer than girls or vice-versa. When segregated, boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart. (20)_____ between the sexes is fostered. In a co-educational school, everything falls into its proper place.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：(对问题的一种)反应。本题考查形近异义词。"react to 对…做出反应，对(某人)有效"，而选项"recruit招募，征募(新兵)；招收，招聘，吸收(新成员)"，"reckon with估计到，预料到；处理，对付"，"保留，保持；能记住"。文章意思是："你会有什么反应呢?"所以选择"react"，而其他选项均不符合原句意思。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：本题考查对条件句的掌握。"Unless there was...，you wouldn"t be…"该句为"unless。引导的条件句，句中的"definitely"表示"肯定的，一定的，确定的"，所以它之前的修饰语应该使用表示肯定的词语，选项"something"在条件句中使用就表示肯定。而其他三个选项在条件句中均没有此意思，不符合题意。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：to say the least至少可以说。本题考查词语搭配。"say"常用于假设性的从句中。而其他选项均无此用法。
【答案解析】解析：nothing less than不亚于，不少于。根据文章意思："男女同班的学校(教育)给孩子们提供的 (教育)不亚于是一个真正的社会缩影"。而且，填入"nothing less than"体现了作者的赞成男女合班的态度。而选项"nothing more than不强于，不多于；同…一样；完全，确实"与作者的态度相反；better more和other than均无此搭配，所以不符合题意。
【答案解析】解析：就…而言。根据上下文，"孩子们拿自己就academic ability，athletic achievement and many of the extracurricular activities等方面来与其他的孩子比…"，所以应填入"in terms of"。而选项"按照，与…一致"，"用，凭借"，"关于"均不符合上下文的意思。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：part of…的一部分。根据上下文："...academic ability，athletic achievement and many of the extracurricular activities是校园生活的一部分"。而选项"部分；段"，"a portion of+复数名词"作主语时，句子谓语用单数，"碎片、零屑、小块"，常含有"废品、破烂"的意味，常用于短语"scraps of"均不符合文章意思。