Question

At a primary school in a small town in the east of South Carolina, second-grade teachers Garneau and Lynne are convinced that separating elementary-age boys and girls produces immediate academic improve?ment in both genders (性別).

David Chadwell, South Carolina's expert of single gender education says, "Boys and girls learn, hear and respond to their surroundings differently. We can teach boys and girls based on what we now know.，，

Male and female eyes are not organized in the same way, he explains. The organization of the male eye makes it sensitive to motion and direction. "Boys under?stand the world as objects moving through space, " he says.

The male eye is also drawn to cooler colours like silver and black. It's no accident that boys tend to create pictures of moving objects instead of drawing the happy-colourful family, like girls do in their classes.

The female eye, on the other hand, is drawn to warmer colours like red, yellow and orange. To attract girls, Chadwell says, the teacher doesn't need to move as much as in boy's class. Using descriptive phrases and lots of colours in presentations or on the blackboard gets their attention.

Boys and girls also hear differently. "When some?one speaks in a loud tone, girls understand it as yelling, ，，Chadwell says. "They think you're mad and can shut down. " Girls are more sensitive to sounds. He advises girls' teachers to watch the tone of their voices. Boys' teachers should sound more forceful, even excited.

A boy's nervous system causes him to be more cau?tious when he is standing, moving, and the room tem?perature is around 69 degrees Fahrenheit. Stress in boys, he says, tends to increase blood flow to their brains ， a process that helps them stay focused. Girls are more focused when seated in a warmer room around 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Girls also respond to stress differ?ently. When exposed to threat and conflict, blood goes to their guts (腸道)，leaving them feeling nervous or anxious.

These differences can be applied in the classroom, Chadwell adds.  " Single gender programmes are about making the best use of the learning." 1. What is David Chadwell's attitude towards separating

elementary-age boys and girls while learning?

A. Supportive.       B. Worried.

C. Concerned. D. Uninterested.

2.    To attract boys in a class, the teacher .

A.    must have a moving object in this hand

B.    needs to wear clothes in a warm colour

C.    has to speak politely

D.    had better move constantly while teaching

3.    Which of the following shows the organization of the passage?

(1 = Paragraph 1 2=Paragraph 2 3 = Paragraph 3 …8=Paragraph 8)

 

4.    Which of the following students is most likely to be focused?

A.    A boy sitting in a warm room.

B.    A standing boy who is faced with stress.

C.    A girl standing in a cold room.

D.    A girl who is facing a lot of pressure.

Answer 1

【文章大意】本文桌一篇科普文，講述男女學生在學習中的不同。

A 細節a解題。根據第二段中的"…'Boys and girls learn, hear and respond to their surroundings differently. We can teach boys and girls based on what we now know.，"和文章最后一句話'"Single gender programmes are about making the best use of the learning.，"可知,David Chadwell是支持男女分班學習的，故選A項。

D 細節理解題。根據第四段中的"It's no accident that boys tend to create pictures of moving objects instead of drawing the happy colourful family, like girls do in their classes."可知,故選D項。

A推理判斷題。第一、二段是總論；第三至第五段討論男女學生眼睛構造的不同；第六段講述男女生聽覺的差異；第七段討論男女神經系統的差異；最后一段總結全文。故選A項。

B細節理解題。根據倒數第二段中的"A boy's nervous sys-tem causes him to be more cautious when he is standing, mov-ing..."可知，當他站著移動時，他的緊張系統會讓他更加謹慎，故選B項。