Boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their abilities to express their emotions,rather than feeling they had to obey the “boy code” of hiding their emotions to be a “real man”.

The findings of the study are against the received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls.

Tony Little，headmaster of Eton，warned that boys were being ignored by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.He criticized teachers for failing to recognize that boys are actually more emotional than girls.

The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills.

But in single-sex schools teachers can adjust lessons to boys’ learning style，letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study’s author, Abigail James of the University of Virginia.

Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with “boy-focused” approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them.Because boys generally have sharper vision，learn best through touch, and are physically more active, they need to be given “hands-on” lessons where they are allowed to walk around.” Boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine(女性的)and prefer the modern type in which violence and sexism are major themes.” James wrote.

Single-sex education also made it less likely that boys would feel they had to give in to a stereotype that men should be “masterful and in charge” in relationships.“In mixed schools boys feel pressed to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means.” the study reported.

【小题1】The author believes that a single-sex school would       .

A.force boys to hide their emotions to be “real men”

B.help to form masculine aggressiveness in boys

C.encourage boys to express their emotions more freely

D.naturally place emphasis on the traditional image of a man to boys

【小题2】It is commonly believed that in a mixed school boys       .

A.perform relatively better

B.grow up more healthily

C.behave more responsibly

D.receive a better education

【小题3】What does Tony Little say about the British education system?

A.It fails more boys than girls academically.

B.It focuses more on mixed school education.

C.It fails to give boys the attention they need.

D.It places more pressure on boys than on girls.

【小题4】According to Abigail James，one of the advantages of single-sex schools is       .

A.teaching can be designed to promote boys’ team spirit

B.boys can focus on their lessons without being absent-minded

C.boys can choose to learn whatever they are interested in

D.teaching can be adapted to suit the characteristics of boys

17、Many teenagers(青少年) feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends.They believe that their family members don’t know them as well as their friends do.In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.

It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends.Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone.This communication is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss something.These things are difficult to tell their family members.

However, parents often try to choose their children’s friends for them.Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends.Have you ever thought of the following questions?

Who chooses your friends?

Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?

Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?

Your answers are welcome.

【小题1】Many teenagers think that ____ can understand them better.

A.friends B.brothers C.sisters D.parents

【小题2】When teenagers have something difficult to tell their parents, they usually____.

A.stay alone at home

B.fight with their parents

C.discuss it with their friends

D.go to their brothers and sisters for help

【小题3】The sentence (句子) “Your answers are welcome.” means _______.

A.You are welcome to discuss the questions with us

B.We’ve got no idea, so your answers are welcome

C.Your answers are always right

D.You can give us all the right answers

18、D

“The really big concern over the last decade,” according to Dr. David Whitehead, “is the relative loss of opportunities for children to engage in child-led play.” That's true. One of the exhausting aspects of modern parenting is that everything, even doing nothing, has to be purposeful. Now that “parenting” has become a verb — a state of doing, rather than simply being — it can fed unnatural to leave your children to their own devices. Yet it creates spaces in which good things can happen. The psychology lecturer is responding to a survey showing that 80 percent of parents of small children feel under pressure to fill their days with “structured” activities. This, says Dr. Whitehead, is a mistake. Leaving your children to play on their own or with their peers enables them to develop “self-regulation abilities”, which in turn leads to better academic achievement.

One afternoon last autumn, sitting on a bench doing no parenting at all, I suddenly felt I was getting the hang of it.

That afternoon, my sister and I took our children to the park. We had lots to talk about, so we sat down on a bench and drove the children away. After briefly complaining, the cousins wandered off and started jumping into puddles (水洼).

They jumped and jumped, and then one of them kicked some muddy water at the others. My sister and I, deep in conversation, didn't notice this. So my nephew became more adventurous. He scooped up a handful of mud and threw it on my son's head. My son caught his breath happily, wiped the mud out of his eyes, and threw one back. My nephew, who has a talent for naming things, puffed out his tiny chest and roared: “Let's play Muddikins!”

The rules of Muddikins are simple. You run around throwing mud at each other until everyone is so thickly coated that you can no longer be sure which child is whose. Nothing is learnt from it; nobody is improved. It is pure fun, of the sort that can only happen when parents drop the reins (缰绳). They did it. “ Whoa, that's so cool,” said one. “I wish my mum was like you.”

【小题1】What is stressed in Paragraph 1?

A.Child-led play matters in the development of children.

B.Parents' concern over their children is unnecessary.

C.Children's activities should be well organized.

D.Parenting is everything in a family.

【小题2】What does the author think of the behavior of the children in the puddles?

A.Amazing.  B.Troublesome.

C.Adventurous.  D.Worthwhile.

【小题3】By saying “They did it” in the last paragraph, the author means that ______.

A.The reins were dropped.

B.She failed to distinguish her child.

C.The children learned from the Muddikins.

D.She confirmed Dr. David Whitehead's theory.

【小题4】The text is mainly about the relationship between _____.

A.parents and children

B.individual and group

C.play and acquisition

D.theory and practice

19、For high school leavers starting out in the working world, it is very important to learn particular skills and practice how to behave in an interview or how to find an internship (实习). In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far behind.

Research shows that if high schools provide career-related courses, students are likely to get higher earnings in later years. The students are more likely to stay in school, graduate and go on to higher education.

In Germany, students as young as 13 and 14 are expected to do internships. German companies work with schools to make sure that young people get the education they need for future employment.

But in America, education reform programs focus on how well students do in exams instead of bringing them into contact with the working world. Harvard Education school professor Robert Schwartz has criticized education reformers for trying to place all graduates directly on the four-year college track. Schwartz argued that this approach leaves the country’s most vulnerable(易受影响的)kids with no jobs and no skills.

Schwartz believed that the best career programs encourage kids to go for higher education while also teach them valuable practical skills at high school. James Madison High School in New York, for example ,encourages students to choose classes on career-based courses. The school then helps them gain on-the-job

experience in those fields while they’re still at high school.

However, even for teens whose schools encourage them to connect with work, the job market is daunting. In the US, unemployment rates for 16-to-19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row.

“The risk is that if teenagers miss out on the summer job experience, they will become part of this generation of teens who had trouble in landing a job,” said Michael, a researcher in the US.

【小题1】In the author’s opinion, German high school leavers ______.

A.enjoy more career-related courses than that of US

B.need more career advice from their schools

C.perform better in exams than American students

D.are less brought into contact with the working world

【小题2】According to Robert Schwartz, high school students should _________.

A.directly carry on higher education

B.get contact with the working world

C.focus on their performance in exams

D.not miss out on the summer job experience

【小题3】The underlined word “daunting” in Paragraph 6 most probably mean “______”.

A.incredible B.motivating

C.impressive D.discouraging

【小题4】What’s the main idea of the text?

A.Remarks on recent US high school education reform

B.Tips on finding jobs for high school leavers in US.

C.The lack of career-based education in US high schools.

D.The severe situation of unemployment in US.

20、Determined to make school more related to the workplace, Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon, developed a school-to-work program. In their first year, students are offered some job pathways in natural resources, human services, health care, business, arts and communication. The following year, each student chooses one of the pathways and examines it in depth, spending three hours a week watching someone on the job. Such a program is also in practice in some other states.

The school-to-work program is built around a partnership. For example, Eastman Kodak, a major employer in Colorado, introduces students to business by helping them construct a model city using small pieces of wood. “The children use the models to decide on the best place to set up schools,” says Lucille Mantelli, director for Eastman Kodak in Colorado. Kodak introduces math by teaching fifth graders to use their pocket money properly. They also provide one-on-one job watching experiences and offer chances of practice for high school juniors and seniors. “Students come to the workplace two or three hours a week,” explains Mantelli. “They do the job for us. We pay them and they get school credits (学分). We also give them our views on their performance and developmental opportunities.”

In these partnerships, everybody wins. The students tend to take more difficult courses than students in schools that don’t offer such programs. Business benefits by having a better prepared workforce needed in future years. “It’s a way for us to work with the school systems to develop the type of workforce we’ll need in future years,” Mantelli continued. “We need employees who understand the basics of reading and writing. We need them to be good at math and to be comfortable working on a team.”

“Our theory is that they can learn as much outside the classroom as in. All students have the ability to change the world, not just to live in it. To do that, they have to know how to solve problems and use critical thinking skills. We need to encourage them to dream about jobs that go beyond what they see today,” concludes a school-to-work program organizer.

【小题1】Using the example of Eastman Kodak in Colorado, the writer shows us ____.

A.what role the business plays in the program

B.why the students get paid for their jobs

C.where the students have their math class

D.what the school decides to do

【小题2】The main purpose of the school-to-work program is to _____.

A.make what students learn in school related to the workplace

B.introduce new job opportunities to schools

C.improve relations between students and teachers

D.offer students more difficult courses

【小题3】According to the text, Lucille Mantelli is ____.

A.a math teacher

B.a company manager

C.a school designer

D.a program organizer

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