All the boys study well.

Questions are based on the following passage．

For centuries， boys were top of the class．But these days， that"s no longer the（36）A new study by the OECD， examined how 15-year-old boys and girls performed at reading，mathematics and science．Boys still score somewhat better at maths， and in science the genders are（37）equal．But when it comes to the students who really（38）， the difference is obvious: boys are50% more likely than girls to fall（39）of basic standards in all three areas．Why are girls performing better at school than their male classmates？First， girls read more than boys．Reading（40）is the basis upon which all other learning is built．When boys don"t do well at reading， their performance in other school subjects（41）too．Second， girls spend more time on homework．Researchers suggest that doing homework（42）byteachers is linked to better performance in maths， reading and science．Boys， it（43）， spend more oftheir free tinle in the virtual world; they are 17% more likely to play online games than girls every day．

They also use the Internet more．Third， peer pressure plays a（44）．A lot of boys decide early on that they are just too cool forschool which means they"re more likely to be（45）in class．Teachers mark them down for this．Inanonymous （匿名的） tests， boys perform. better．In fact， the gender gap in reading drops by a third

when teachers don"t know the gender of the pupil they are marking．ing．

A．appears

B．case

C．distinguishes

D．dramatically

E．engaged

F．experience

G．lazy

H．Noisy

I．Proficiency

J．Role

K．Roughly

L．Set

M．Short

N．Straggle

O．suffers

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hool students are more likely 【26】______ their female counterparts to tackle advanced math courses like calculus, that 【27】______ all the great mathematicians have been men. Are women born with 【28】______ mathematical ability？ Or does society's sexism 【29】______ their progress？ In 1980, two Johns Hopkins University researchers tried to 【30】______ the eternal nature/nurture debate. Julian Stanley and Camilla Benbow have 【31】______ 10,000 talented seventh and eighth 【32】______ between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test, 【33】______ math questions are meant to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discovered 【34】______ sex differences. 【35】______ the verbal abilities of the males and females 【36】______ differed, twice as 【37】______ boys as girls scored over 500 (on a scale of 200 to 800) on mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 【38】______ l. The conclusion: males have 【39】______ superior mathematical reasoning ability. Benbow and Stanley's findings, 【40】______ were published in "Science", 【41】______ some men and women. Now there is comfort for those people in a new study from the University of Chicago that suggests math is not, after all, a natural male 【42】______ Prof. Zalman Usiskin studied 1,366 high school students. They were selected from geometry classes and tested 【43】______ their ability to solve geometry proofs, a subject requiring 【44】______ abstract reasoning and spatial ability. The conclusion 【45】______ by Usiskin: there are no sex differences in math ability.

【26】

A．and

B．than

C．with

D．on

ook. The ___26___ found that over half of male schoolchildren lacked confidence because of their body ___27___ .The figure for girls was slightly ___28___ , at 59 percent. Researchers questioned 693 teachers about how their students ___29___ about their bodies. All the children had taken lessons on body image and self-esteem.

Teachers said many children were very ___30___ if others said bad things about their appearances. Around 55 percent of teachers reported that girls were extremely sensitive to comment ___31___ their looks; the figure for boys being easily hurt by teasing(取笑)was 27 percent. Teachers gave a number of ___32___ why children as young as four years old were stressing out about their shapes. Over 90 percent of teachers ___33___ the Internet and television. Children see images of “perfect”bodies every day and they feel they have to look that way too. Many children are on diets to make themselves ___34___ to the opposite sex. One elementary school teacher said :“I work with four to five-year- olds and some say things like, ‘I can ’t eat cheese , it will make me ___35___ ’”, A teachers ’ spokeswoman warned that children trying to look like “celebrities in the media only lead to misery ”.

A. about F. fat K. questions B. attractive

G. felt L. reasons C. blame H. for

M. shape D. complete E. discover I. higher

N. study J. lazy O. upset

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already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St.Paul’s School London.Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly.His pronunciation of Latin was English however and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.

Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way.They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier.They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English.As they increased their skill they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original.The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them.All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in .

After several years of study the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read.And as they began to read Latin poems they began to write poems in Latin.Because Milton was already a poet at ten his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys.During the seven years Milton spent at university he made regular use of his command of Latin.He wrote some excellent Latin poems which he published among his works in 1645.

1.What does the passage mainly tell about？[]

A.How John Milton wrote“Paradise Lost”

B.How John Milton studied Latin

C.How John Milton became famous

D.How John Milton became a poet

2.Which of the following is true of John Milton’s pronunciation of Latin？[]

A.It has a strong Italian accent

B.It has an uncommon accent

C.It was natural and easy to understand

D.It was bad and difficult to understand

3.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A.Milton’s training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys

B.Milton hadn’t learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college

C.Milton’s Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking

D.Milton's classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton

4.Which of the following is suggested in the passage？[]

A.The schoolmaster mainly helped those who were bad at Latin

B.The schoolmaster usually stood beside the schoolboys with a stick in his hand

C.The schoolboys could repeat Latin grammar rules from memory

D.Some of the schoolboys were quick at writing compositions in Latin

5.What is the meaning of the underlined part“Latin should be beaten in”that the writer wishes you to understand？[]

A.Schoolboys should be punished if they were lazy to learn Latin

B.Schoolboys should be encouraged if they had difficulty in learning Latin

C.Schoolboys were expected to master Latin in a short time

D.Schoolboys had to study Latin in a hard way

A．only students in the 24 high schools cheated in examinations

B．both good and poor students cheated in examinations

C．more girls cheated in examinations than boys did

D．boys like cheating while girls do not like it

A.all we

B.all of we

C.we all

D.all of boys

_____of the boys came to the party. They were ill.

A. Either

B. All

C. Neither

I had to go to the cinema on my ___ because all the other boys were busy.

A、own

B、way

C、feet

A.the other

B.any other

C.each

D.all