Boys have a higher risk of developing heart disease than girls.A.YB.NC.NG
Boys have a higher risk of developing heart disease than girls.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
Boys have a higher risk of developing heart disease than girls.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
第1题
Girls get better【C5】______at school than boys, and in most developed countries more women than men go to【C6】______. Women will thus be better【C7】______for the new jobs of the 21st century, in which brains【C8】______a lot more than physical strength. In Britain far more women than men are now【C9】______to become doctors. And women are more【C10】______to provide sound advice on investing their parents'nest egg. Surveys show that women consistently【C11】______higher financial returns than men do.
【C12】______, the increase in female employment in the rich world has been the main【C13】______force of growth in the past couple of decades. Those women have【C14】______more to global GDP growth than have either new technology or the new giants, China and India. Add the【C15】______of housework and child-rearing, and women probably account【C16】______just over half of the world output. It is【C17】______that women still get paid less and few【C18】______it to the top of companies, but,【C19】______prejudice fades over coming years, women will have great scope to【C20】______their productivity and in comes.
【C1】
A.seen
B.observed
C.watched
D.noticed
第2题
What will happen when the number of students drops according to Bahram Bekhradnia?
A.Both researchers and students will become more critical.
B.The government will consider resuming the former tuition fees.
C.Bottom universities will have to struggle harder to survive.
D.The quality of higher education will decrease accordingly.
第3题
Women's education may be unusual territory for economists, but enhancing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics, with its emphasis on incentives (激励), provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school the prophecy (预言)becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy. The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle.
Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.
The author argues that educating girls in developing countries is ______.
A.troublesome
B.labor-saving
C.rewarding
D.expensive
第4题
Identical twin girls are more likely than boys to have learning problems.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
第5题
I have two boys but ________ of them likes sweets.
A) both
B) neither
C) either
D) none
第6题
Fathers also bring an array of unique qualities. Some are familiar: protector and role model. Teenage boys without fathers are notoriously prone to trouble. The pathway to adulthood for daughters is somewhat easier, but they must still learn from their fathers, in ways they cannot from their mothers, how to relate to men. They learn from their fathers about heterosexual trust, intimacy and difference. They learn to appreciate their own femininity from the one male who is most special in their lives. Most important, through loving and being loved by their fathers, they learn that they are love-worthy.
Current research gives much deeper and more surprising insight into the father's role in child-rearing. One significantly overlooked dimension of fathering is play. From their children's birth through adolescence, fathers tend to emphasize play more than caretaking. The father's style. of play is likely to be both physically stimulating and exciting. With older children it involves more teamwork, requiring competitive testing of physical and mental skills. It frequently resembles a teaching relationship: come on, let me show you how. Mothers play more at the child's level. They seem willing to let the child directly play.
Kids, at least in the early years, seem to prefer to play with daddy. In one study .of 2.5-year-olds who were given a choice, more than two-thirds chose to play with their fathers.
The way fathers play has effects on everything from the management of emotions to intelligence and academic achievement.It is particularly important in promoting self-control. According to one expert, "children who roughhouse with their fathers quickly learn that biting, kicking and other forms of physical violence are not acceptable." They learn when to "shut it down."
At play and in other realms, fathers tend to stress competition, challenge, initiative, risktaking and independence.Mothers, as caretakers, stress emotional security and personal safety. On the playground fathers often try to get the children to swing ever higher, while mothers are cautious, worrying about an accident.
We know, too, that fathers' involvement seems to be linked to improved verbal and problem solving skills and higher academic achievement. Several studies found that along with paternal strictness, the amount of time fathers spent reading with them was a strong predictor of their daughters' verbal ability.
For sons the results have been equally striking. Studies uncovered a strong relationship between fathers' involvement and the mathematical abilities of their sons. Other studies found a relationship between paternal nurturing and boys' verbal intelligence.
The first paragraph points out that one of the advantages of a family with both parents is ______.
A.husband and wife can share housework
B.two adults are always better than one
C.the fundamental importance of mothers can be fully recognized
D.husband and wife can compensate for each other's shortcomings
第7题
A.women compute better than boys
B.girls learn to hate math sooner and possibly for different reasons
C.girls takes less math than boys (from age sixteen on
D.girls solve word problems better than boys
第8题
What does the author want the parents to be aware of?
A) Their boys have emotional or behavioral problems.
B) The present way of educating children might have problems.
C) Children need more time and concern from parents.
D) It is no good sending children to preschools.
第9题
Many people like to think of our present system of schooling as providing plenty of steps up the ladder of success for clever children.It would be good to think that no one who is really bright can be missed out when the state system is apparently so thorough.It is obvious, for instance, that many children from less rich homes reach university or do well in other ways.
Unfortunately, we now have plenty of evidence that many children of every level of ability do much less well than they could.For instance, during the years of national military service it was possible to test the intelligence of all male 18-20 year olds.Half of those soldiers who were placed in the two highest ability groups had left schools at 15.
It has also been shown that the percentage of working class children going to university is almost the same now as it was in 1939.One study of 5000 children from birth to 21 years old indicated that up to half the bright pupils from working class homes left school when they reached 16 years old.Moreover, there is no difference in intelligence between the sexes, but far more boys than girls stay in education after 16.
It is clear from this and much other evidence that many children are still leaving school too early to benefit from the prizes------money, social respectability, and interesting jobs, which higher education gives.It is clear too that the reasons why such children leave have much to do with their social circumstances.Their parents often need the extra money another wage-owner can bring in; they do not value education for itself because their own was probably dull and unhappy.It is not so much that they force their sons and daughters to leave school, rather that they tend to say, “It's up to you”.
1.It is hoped that ROSLA will give all children ().
A.a more enjoyable time at school
B.the same chances in society
C.the right to a better school
D.higher scored in intelligence tests
2.People would like to think that ().
A.equal numbers of poor and rich children reach university
B.those with the least money get the best education
C.intelligent children are always chosen by the system
D.only clever children do well
3.Working class children are felt to be at a disadvantage because ().
A.many of the clever ones leave school early
B.fewer go to university than ever before
C.more than half leave school when they are 16
D.fewer boys than girls stay at school after 16
4.Many children leave school early because ().
A.their social circumstances make them unhappy
B.they have to work to support their family's income
C.their school is a dull and unhappy place
D.their parents don't allow them to make their own decisions
5.This article shows that equal opportunity in education ().
A.is a thing of the past
B.has not yet been achieved
C.is there for those who merit it
D.has greatly improved our society
第10题
Why are A-levels now being skewed back towards boys?
A.Boys have critical skills rather than hard facts.
B.A-levels stress exams instead of coursework.
C.Female students are not interested in A-levels.
D.Boys put more emphasis on project work.