The earnings of women are well below that of men ____educational differences that are diminishing between the two sexes.A.although B.though C.despite of D.in spite of

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The earnings of women are well below that of men ____educational differences that are diminishing between the two sexes.

A.although
B.though
C.despite of
D.in spite of
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1.Part ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1While still catching-up to men in some spheres of modern life, women appear to be way ahead in at least one undesirable category. “Women are particularly susceptible to developing depression and anxiety disorders in response to stress compared to men,” according to Dr. Yehuda, chief psychiatrist at New York’s Veteran’s Administration Hospital.Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions. In several of the studies, when stressed-out female rats had their ovaries (the female reproductive organs) removed, their chemical responses became equal to those of the males.Adding to a woman’s increased dose of stress chemicals, are her increased “opportunities” for stress. “It’s not necessarily that women don’t cope as well. It’s just that they have so much more to cope with,” says Dr. Yehuda. “Their capacity for tolerating stress may even be greater than men’s,” she observes, “it’s just that they’re dealing with so many more things that they become worn out from it more visibly and sooner.”Dr. Yehuda notes another difference between the sexes. “I think that the kinds of things that women are exposed to tend to be in more of a chronic or repeated nature. Men go to war and are exposed to combat stress. Men are exposed to more acts of random physical violence. The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other family members, and they tend not to be one-shot deals. The wear-and-tear that comes from these longer relationships can be quite devastating.”Adeline Alvarez married at 18 and gave birth to a son, but was determined to finish college. “I struggled a lot to get the college degree. I was living in so much frustration that that was my escape, to go to school, and get ahead and do better.” Later, her marriage ended and she became a single mother. “It’s the hardest thing to take care of a teenager, have a job, pay the rent, pay the car payment, and pay the debt. I lived from paycheck to paycheck.”Not everyone experiences the kinds of severe chronic stresses Alvarez describes. But most women today are coping with a lot of obligations, with few breaks, and feeling the strain. Alvarez’s experience demonstrates the importance of finding ways to diffuse stress before it threatens your health and your ability to function.21.Which of the following is true according to the first two paragraphs?[A] Women are biologically more vulnerable to stress.[B] Women are still suffering much stress caused by men.[C] Women are more experienced than men in coping with stress.[D] Men and women show different inclinations when faced with stress.

2.BHaving a husband means an extra seven hours of housework each week for women, according to a new study. For men, getting married saves an hour of housework a week. “It’s a well-known pattern,” said lead researcher Frank Stafford at University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. “Men usually work more outside the home, while women take on more of the housework.”He points out that differences among households（家庭）exist. But in general, marriage means more housework for women and less for men. “And the situation gets worse for women when they have children,” Stafford said.Overall, times are changing in the American home. In 1976, women busied themselves with 26 weekly hours of sweeping-and-dusting work, compared with 17 hours in 2005. Men are taking on more housework, more than doubling their housework hours from six in 1976 to 13 in 2005.Single women in their 20s and 30s did the least housework, about 12 weekly hours, while married women in their 60s and 70s did the most-about 21 hours a week.Men showed a somewhat different pattern, with older men picking up the broom more often than younger men. Single men worked the hardest around the house, more than that of all other age groups of married men.Having children increases housework even further. With more than three children, for example, wives took on more of the extra work, clocking about 28 hours a week compared with husbands’10 hours.45. According to the “well-known pattern” in Paragraph 1, a married man___________.A. takes on heavier work B. does more houseworkC. is the main breadwinner D. is the master of the house

3.Passage FourWomen earn less than men do. For example, in 1998 the hourly wages of women in the U. S. were 26% less than those of men.The gap between male and female incomes varies with age. The gap between the labor incomes of young women and young menvaries. It's also clear that jobs in which women are concentrated pay less. The larger the number of workers who are women in ranindustry, the lower the average wages.Why do women earn less than men do? Can the differences be explained by the fact that women are lookeddown upon? If so, the government has to intervene(干预), to force the employers to pay equal wages to equal jobs. However, there is no agreement among economists about the causes ofthe gap. One view argues that women, on the average, have chosen low-paying jobs in which workers enjoy the freedom of entering and leaving the labor force, which reduces their years of experience relativeto men. Other people say the gap can also be explained by the difference in educational background.Much of the gap, however, has not been fully explained. It might be the result of some prejudice (偏见) against women. It is this part that has produced calls for government action. What would happen if the government did intervene toincrease the wages paid to women? One possibility is that incomes for women as a group might actually decline (下降). An increase in wage decreases the quantity of labor imput demanded, resulting in decreased employment as the rate of hiring newworkers declines. The result will be a surplus 过剩) of labor. Those who can find jobs might be better off while those who had jobsmight find themselves out of work.48. Some economists believe women earn less than men partly because______.A. there are more than enough women in the labor forceB. women have more freedom in selecting jobsC. women are only provided with low-paid jobsD. women are less experienced than men

4.Which of the following is true according to the first two paragraphs?A．Women are biologically more vulnerable to stress.B．Women are still suffering much stress caused by men.C．Women are more experienced than men in coping with stress.D．Men and women show different inclinations when faced with stress.

参考答案和解析
答案：D
解析：
本题考查状语从句

D选项，句意：尽管两性之间所受教育的差别正在缩小，妇女的收入仍大大低于男人的收入。in spite of虽然，尽管，是固定搭配，故D选项正确。

A，选项，although是连词，后接从句，故排除。

B，选项， though是连词，后接从句，故排除。

C，选项，despite不能和of连用，故排除。

故正确答案为D选项。
更多“The earnings of women are well below that of men ____educational differences that are diminishing between the two sexes.”相关问题

  • 第1题：

    Passage Four

    Equal pay for equal work is a phrase used by the American women who feel that they are looked down upon by the society. They say it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the same work.

    People who hold the opposite opinion(mainly men)have an answer to this. They say that men have more responsibility than women; a married man is expected to earn money to support his family and to make important decisions, and therefore it is right for men to be paid more. There are some people who hold even stronger opinion than this and are against married women working at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention to. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take full-time job, they will be unable to do the things they are supposed to. Women are best at making a comfortable home and bringing up children. They will have to give up their present position in society.

    "This is exactly what they want to give up, "the women who disagree say. "They want to escape from the limited place which society expects them to fill, and to have freedom to choose between a job and home life, or a mixture of the two. Women have the right of equal pay and equal opportunities."

    These women have expressed their opinions forcefully by using the famous saying, "All men are created equal." They point out that the meaning of this sentence is "all human beings are created equal."

    48. The women use the phrase "equal pay for equal work" to demand that______.

    A. women's work shouldn't be harder than men's

    B. men should be paid less than women

    C. people doing harder work should earn more

    D. men and women should be paid the same amount of money for the same work


    正确答案：A
    48．答案为A  此题为词汇题。“同工同酬”的意义解释。

  • 第2题：

    The role of women in Britain has changed a lot in this century, () in the last twenty years. The main change has been () giving women greater equality with men. Up to the beginning of this century, women seem to have had () rights. They could not vote and were kept at home. () , as far as we know, most women were happy with this situ ation. Today, women in Britain certainly () more rights than they used to. They were () the vote in 1919. In 1970 a law was passed to give them an equal () of wealth in the case of divorce, () the Equal Pay Act gave them the right of equal pay with men for work of equal value in the same year. Yet () these changes, there are still great difference in status between men and women. Many employers seem to () the Equal Pay Act, and the average working women is () to earn only about half that a man earns for the same job. () a survey, at present, only one-third of the country’s workers are () women. This small percentage is partly () a shortage of nurseries. If there were () nurseries, twice as many women might well go out to work

    A.but

    B.and

    C.because

    D.although


    参考答案：B

  • 第3题：

    Text 2

    Women are, on the whole, more verbal than men. They are good at language and verbal reasoning, while men tend to be skilled at tasks demanding visual spatial abilities. In fact, along with aggression, these are the most commonly accepted differences between the sexes.

    Words are tools for communicating with other people, especially information about people. They are mainly social tools. Visual and spatial abilities are good for imagining and manipulating objects and for communicating information about them. Are these talents programmed into the brain? In some of the newest and most controversial research in neurophysiology, it has been suggested that when it comes to the brain, males are specialists while women are generalists.

    But no one knows what, if anything, this means in terms of the abilities of the two sexes. Engineering is both visual and spatial, and it' s true that there are relatively few women engineers. But women become just as skilled as men at shooting a rifle or driving a car, tasks that involve visual spatial skills. They also do equally well at programming a computer, which is neither visual nor spatial. Women do, however, seem less likely to fall in love with the objects themselves. We all know men for whom machines seem to be extensions of their identity. A woman is more likely to see her car, rifle, or computer as a useful tool, but not in itself fascinating.

    26. According to the passage, women are usually good at ______.

    A) body language

    B) logical reasoning

    C) tasks demanding for the use of words

    D) both A and B


    正确答案：C
    答案：C
    [试题分析] 事实推论题。
    [详细解答] 根据本文第一句Women are，on the whole，more verbal than men，显然可以推断wornen are usually good at tasks demanding for the use of words。阅此，本题答案为C。

  • 第4题：

    22． Are they all men?

    A． Yes．

    B． No．

    C． Two are men; Two are women．

    D． They are women．


    正确答案：A
    22．A【解析】他们是Mike，Jack，Tom和John．

  • 第5题：

    共用题干
    Women's minds work differently from men's.At least,that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter of frustration or a joke.Now the biologists have moved into this minefield,and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women.But being different,they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse.
    There is,however,a definite structural variation between the male and female brain.The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes一the link between the two halves of the brain.
    The two halves are linked by a trunk line of between 200 and 300 million nerves,the corpus callosum.Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men.This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance.The question is"What?",and,if this difference exists,are there others?Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men.Are some of these differences biological and inborn,a result of evolution?We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences.But could we be wrong?
    Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions,and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people,the left half is used for word-handling, analytical and logical activities;the right half works on pictures,patterns and forms.We need both halves working together. And the better the connections,the more harmoniously the two halves work.And,according to research findings,women have the better connections.
    But it isn't all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis.In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at"language subjects" and boys better at maths and physics.If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunk line,there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.
    We shan't know for a while,partly because we don't know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain,and we cannot understand how the two halves interact via the corpus callosum.But this striking difference must have some effect and,because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intellect,we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing.

    Schoolgirls everywhere tend to be better at language subjects than boys?
    A:Right
    B:Wrong
    C:Not mentioned

    答案：A
    解析：
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" But being different , they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance“。
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing."
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at 'language subjects’…”
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。

  • 第6题：

    共用题干
    Women's minds work differently from men's.At least,that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter of frustration or a joke.Now the biologists have moved into this minefield,and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women.But being different,they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse.
    There is,however,a definite structural variation between the male and female brain.The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes一the link between the two halves of the brain.
    The two halves are linked by a trunk line of between 200 and 300 million nerves,the corpus callosum.Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men.This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance.The question is"What?",and,if this difference exists,are there others?Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men.Are some of these differences biological and inborn,a result of evolution?We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences.But could we be wrong?
    Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions,and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people,the left half is used for word-handling, analytical and logical activities;the right half works on pictures,patterns and forms.We need both halves working together. And the better the connections,the more harmoniously the two halves work.And,according to research findings,women have the better connections.
    But it isn't all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis.In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at"language subjects" and boys better at maths and physics.If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunk line,there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.
    We shan't know for a while,partly because we don't know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain,and we cannot understand how the two halves interact via the corpus callosum.But this striking difference must have some effect and,because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intellect,we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing.

    Brain differences point to superiority of one sex over the other.
    A:Right
    B:Wrong
    C:Not mentioned

    答案：B
    解析：
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" But being different , they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance“。
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing."
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at 'language subjects’…”
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。

  • 第7题：

    There are no__________ differences between the two products, despite the fact that each is made from different materials.

    A.observably
    B.observing
    C.observe
    D.observable

    答案：D
    解析：
    空格处的单词应该修饰其后面的名词“differences”。因此，选项中可以修饰名词的现在分词B和D为正确答案的备选项。两者中，可以和名词搭配使用的是形容词D。

  • 第8题：

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills ) , while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline ( 衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline．Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g．"object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing．The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average．And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
    Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

    A.Men do better than women when it comes to learning English.
    B.Women stand out at remembering people's names.
    C.Men excel at typing as many words in a particular category as possible in the given time.
    D.Women excel at dealing mathematic problems.

    答案：B
    解析：
    根据第二段Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images，while women tend to excel(擅长)at recalling information from their brain’s files．可推出答案为B。

  • 第9题：

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills ) , while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline ( 衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline．Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g．"object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing．The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average．And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
    The author aims to tell us that__________ .

    A.women's minds perform better than men's
    B.men's minds decline more with age
    C.everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older
    D.a survey on human's mind decline was done recently

    答案：B
    解析：
    根据文章开头…but men’s minds decline more than women’s…可知本题答案为B。

  • 第10题：

    单选题
    The passage mainly discusses ______.
    A

    how sex differences are demonstrated in social relations

    B

    how hormone determines sex differences

    C

    why there are differences between males and females

    D

    why men and women have different social roles


    正确答案： C
    解析：
    可以先看一下四个答案的意思：A“性别差异是如何在社交中体现的”，B“激素是如何决定男女差异的”，C“男女之间为什么会产生差异”，D“为什么男女会有不同的社会角色”。本文在前两段论述了男女性别的差异，紧接着后面开始阐述这种差别所导致的男女在竞争及工作中的不同表现。很明显选A。

  • 第11题：

    单选题
    The author points out that the assignments of women’s roles in work_____.
    A

    are determined by what they are better suited to

    B

    row out of their position inside the home

    C

    reflect a basic difference between men and women

    D

    are suitable to them, but not to men


    正确答案： B
    解析：
    文章的第二段。作者在这一段的倒数第二句话中指出“These positions are simply an extension of women’s domestic role”。从中可知B项是正确答案。

  • 第12题：

    单选题
    Instead, I’ll _______ on the differences between the two versions; unfortunately most of the differences took away from the original film, _______ I think is truly excellent.
    A

    explain; that    

    B

    comment; which    

    C

    analyse; as    

    D

    remark; what


    正确答案： D
    解析：
    相反，我将就这两个版本的不同做出评价，不幸的是许多的不同都是原版电影中所去掉了的，我认为那些去掉的情节确实很精彩。comment评论。explain解释。analyse分析。remark评论。只有comment能与on搭配使用，表示“对…进行评价”。

  • 第13题：

    What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?

    A. The fact that men do not try clothes on in a shop.

    B. Women bargain (讨价还价) for their clothes, but men do not.

    C. Women stand in a shop, but men sit down.

    D. The time they take to buy clothes.


    正确答案：D

        47．答案为D  此考题为推理题。选项A和C显然与事实相矛盾。文中未提及男人不在乎价格的高低而女人喜欢买便宜货，但文中并未暗示喜不喜欢讨价还价足男顾客与女顾客之间最明显的差别。从文章中可以看出两者最明显的区别应在于他们花在购买衣服上的时间长短，故应选D。

  • 第14题：

    Having reviewed their articles will give us a much better feel for the major differences between the two schools of thought.()


    正确答案:错

  • 第15题：

    Questions 61-65 are based on Passage Two:

    Passage Two

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline（衰退） more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey．

    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills),while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects)．

    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed．

    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline． Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors,“So they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline,” said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in Egland．

    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category（范畴） as possible in the given time, e． g．“object usually I colored gray”, and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing．The first two were task at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women．

    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average． And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall．

    The underlined word in the second paragraph means_________．

    A． natural

    B． great

    C． obvious

    D． absolute


    正确答案：A
    A[解析]男女大脑在某些方面的差异是天生固有的。

  • 第16题：

    共用题干
    Women's minds work differently from men's.At least,that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter of frustration or a joke.Now the biologists have moved into this minefield,and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women.But being different,they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse.
    There is,however,a definite structural variation between the male and female brain.The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes一the link between the two halves of the brain.
    The two halves are linked by a trunk line of between 200 and 300 million nerves,the corpus callosum.Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men.This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance.The question is"What?",and,if this difference exists,are there others?Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men.Are some of these differences biological and inborn,a result of evolution?We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences.But could we be wrong?
    Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions,and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people,the left half is used for word-handling, analytical and logical activities;the right half works on pictures,patterns and forms.We need both halves working together. And the better the connections,the more harmoniously the two halves work.And,according to research findings,women have the better connections.
    But it isn't all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis.In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at"language subjects" and boys better at maths and physics.If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunk line,there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.
    We shan't know for a while,partly because we don't know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain,and we cannot understand how the two halves interact via the corpus callosum.But this striking difference must have some effect and,because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intellect,we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing.

    The structural difference in the brain between the sexes has long been known.
    A:Right
    B:Wrong
    C:Not mentioned

    答案：B
    解析：
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" But being different , they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance“。
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing."
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at 'language subjects’…”
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。

  • 第17题：

    共用题干
    Women's minds work differently from men's.At least,that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter of frustration or a joke.Now the biologists have moved into this minefield,and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women.But being different,they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse.
    There is,however,a definite structural variation between the male and female brain.The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes一the link between the two halves of the brain.
    The two halves are linked by a trunk line of between 200 and 300 million nerves,the corpus callosum.Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men.This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance.The question is"What?",and,if this difference exists,are there others?Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men.Are some of these differences biological and inborn,a result of evolution?We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences.But could we be wrong?
    Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions,and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people,the left half is used for word-handling, analytical and logical activities;the right half works on pictures,patterns and forms.We need both halves working together. And the better the connections,the more harmoniously the two halves work.And,according to research findings,women have the better connections.
    But it isn't all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis.In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at"language subjects" and boys better at maths and physics.If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunk line,there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.
    We shan't know for a while,partly because we don't know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain,and we cannot understand how the two halves interact via the corpus callosum.But this striking difference must have some effect and,because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intellect,we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing.

    The study of how two halves interact via the corpus callosum is being ca币ed out?
    A:Right
    B:Wrong
    C:Not mentioned

    答案：C
    解析：
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" But being different , they point out hurriedly,is not the same as being better or worse."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance“。
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences."
    本题给出的信息是错误的。原文是：" we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing."
    本题给出的信息是正确的。原文是：" In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at 'language subjects’…”
    文章没有谈到这方面的信息。

  • 第18题：

    Who talks more,women or men?The seemingly contradictory evidence is（ ）by the difference what I call public and private speaking.More men feel comfortable doing“public speaking,”while more women feel comfortable doing“private”speaking.Another way of capturing these differences is by using the terms report-talk and rapport-talk.

    A.compromised
    B.reckoned
    C.reinforced
    D.reconciled

    答案：D
    解析：
    reconcile“使（似有分歧的目标、说法、意见等）一致，和谐”，符合“这种似乎矛盾的证据与我所说的公共谈话和私下谈话的差别是一致的”。A.compromise“妥协，折中”；B.reckon“认为（某人，某事物）是……”；C.reinforce“加强”。

  • 第19题：

    共用题干
    第三篇

    Two People, Two Paths

    You must be familiar with the situation:Dad's driving,Mum's telling him where to go.
    He's sure that they need to turn left.But she says it's not for another two blocks.Who has
    the better sense of direction?Men or women.
    They both do,a new study says,but in different ways.
    Men and women,Canadian researchers have found,have different methods of finding
    their way.Men look quickly at landmarks（地标）and head off in what they think is the right
    direction.Women,however,try to picture the whole route in detail and then follow the path
    in their head.
    "Women tend to be more detailed,"said Edward Cornell,who led the study,"while
    men tend to be a little bit faster and...a little bit more intuitive（直觉感知的）."
    In fact,said Cornell,"sense of direction"isn't one skill but two.
    The first is the"survey method".This is when you see an area from above,such as a
    printed map.You can see,for example,where the hospital is,where the church is and
    that the supermarket is on its right.
    The second skill is the"route method".This is when you use a series of directions.
    You start from the hospital,then turn left,turn right,go uphill一and then you see the
    supermarket.
    Men are more likely to use the survey method while women are more likely to use one
    route and follow directions.
    Both work,and neither is better.
    Some scientists insist that these different skills have a long history.They argue it is
    because of the difference in traditional roles.
    In ancient times,young men often went far away with the older men to fish or hunt.
    The trip took hours or day sand covered unfamiliar places.The only way to know where you
    were was to use the survey method to remember landmarks一the mountains,the lakes and
    soon.
    The women,on the other hand,took young girls out to find fruits and plants.These
    activities were much closer to home but required learning well-used paths.So,women's
    sense of space was based on learning certain routes.

    Women developed a sense of space out of the need
    A:to go fishing.
    B:to go hunting.
    C:to learn well-used paths.
    D:to go swimming.

    答案：C
    解析：

  • 第20题：

    Everyone becomes a little more forgetful as they get older, but men's minds decline more than women's, according to the results of a worldwide survey.
    Certain differences seem to be inherent in male and female brains: Men are better at maintaining and dealing with mental images (useful in mathematical reasoning and spatial skills ) , while women tend to excel (擅长) at recalling information from their brain's files (helpful with language skills and remembering the locations of objects).
    Many studies have looked for a connection between sex and the amount of mental decline ( 衰退) people experience as they age, but the results have been mixed.
    Some studies found more age-related decline in men than in women, while others saw the opposite or even no relationship at all between sex and mental decline．Those results could be improper because the studies involved older people, and women live longer than men: The men tested are the survivors, "so they're the ones that may not have shown such cognitive decline," said study team leader Elizabeth of the University of Warwick in England.
    People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills: matching an object to its rotated form, matching lines shown from the same angle, typing as many words in a particular category (范畴) as possible in the given time, e.g．"object usually colored gray", and recalling the location of objects in a line drawing．The first two were tasks at which men usually excel; the latter were typically dominated by women.
    Within each age group studied, men and women performed better in their separate categories on average．And though performance declined with age for both genders, women showed obviously less decline than men overall.
    According to the passage, which of the following can NOT be typed into the same category?

    A.clouD.
    B.sheep
    C.trees
    D.goose

    答案：C
    解析：
    根据文章第五段People surveyed completed four tasks that tested sex-related cognitive skills：matching an object to its rotated form，matching lines shown from the same angle…推断，以白色为限定范畴可推出选项C为答案。

  • 第21题：

    单选题
    When there are small differences between the heights of two successive high tides or two successive low tides，the tides are called（）.
    A

    Diurna

    B

    Semi-diurnal

    C

    Solar

    D

    Mixed


    正确答案： C
    解析： 暂无解析

  • 第22题：

    单选题
    Can you______the differences between the two pictures?
    A

    tell

    B

    talk

    C

    speak

    D

    say


    正确答案： B
    解析：

  • 第23题：

    单选题
    Hopes, goals and fears ______ widely between men and women, the rich and the poor, and old people and young people.
    A

    alter

    B

    shift

    C

    vary

    D

    transfer


    正确答案： A
    解析：
    句意：希望、目标和所担忧的问题随着性别，穷富和年龄的不同而差异很大。vary不同，变化，强调因为条件不同而发生变化。alter变更，转变，强调调整，更改，取“改变”含义时，常表示外貌、性格的改变。shift移位，轮班，表示观点、立场、重点、位置等的改变。transfer转移，调任，可表示工作调动，球员转会等。

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