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It is well known that teenage boys tend to do better(1)_____ math than girls
It is well known that teenage boys tend to do better(1)_____ math than girls
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2023-11-09
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It is well known that teenage boys tend to do better(1)_____ math than girls, that male high school students are more likely than their female counterparts(2)_____ advanced math courses like calculus, that virtually all the great mathematicians (3)_____ men. Are women born with(4)_____ mathematical ability? Or does society’s sexism slow their progress? In 1980, two Johns Hopkins University researchers tried(5)_____ the eternal nature/ nurture debate. Julian Stanley and Camilla Benbow (6)_____ 10,000 talented seventh- and eighth-graders between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test, in which math questions(7)_____ to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discovered(8)_____ sex differences.(9)_____ the verbal abilities of the males and females(10)_____ differed,(11)_____ girls scored over 500(on a scale of 200 to 800)(12)_____ mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 to 1. The conclusion: males have(13)_____ superior mathematical reasoning ability.
Benbow and Stanley’s findings,(14)_____ were published in "Science", disturbed some men and (15)_____ women. Now there is(16)_____ for those people in a new study from the University of Chicago that suggests math(17)_____ not, after all, a natural male domain. Prof. Zalman Usiskin studied 1,366 tenth graders. They were selected from (18)_____ classes and tested on their ability to solve geometry proofs, a subject requiring(19)_____ abstract reasoning and spatial ability. The conclusion (20)_____ by Usiskin: there are no sex differences in math ability. [br] (8)
选项
A、distinct
B、instinct
C、remote
D、vague
答案
A
解析
由下文的at the 700 level,the ratio was14 to 1(而在高于700分的人群中,男女生比例拉大到了14:1),可看出男女生的数学能力有着明显差别,distinct“明显的”符合句意。instinct“本能”;remote“偏僻的”;vague“模糊的”。
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