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  3. Imagine being asked to spend 12 or so years of your life in a society which c

Imagine being asked to spend 12 or so years of your life in a society which c

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问题    Imagine being asked to spend 12 or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex. How would you react? Unless there was something definitely wrong with you, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to say the least. It is all the more surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such abnormal conditions on their children — conditions which they themselves wouldn’t put up with for one minute!
   Any discussion of this topic is bound to question the aims of education. Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is far from being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of education is to equip future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society. Adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school possibly offer the right sort of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a shock.
   A coeducational school offers children nothing less than a true version of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the opportunity to get to know each other and to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other in terms of academic ability, athletic achievement and in many of the extra-curricular activities which are part of school life. What a practical advantage it is (to give just a small example) to be able to put on a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls! What nonsense coeducation makes of the argument that boys are cleverer than girls or vice versa! When segregated, boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart. Rivalry between the sexes is fostered. In a coeducational school, everything falls into its proper place.
   But perhaps the greatest contribution of coeducation is the healthy attitude to life it encourages. Boys don’t grow up believing that women are mysterious creatures — airy goddesses, more like fairy tale book illustrations, than human beings. Girls don’t grow up imagining that men are romantic heroes. Years of living together at school dispel illusions of this kind. There are no goddesses with freckles, pigtails, piercing voices and inky fingers. There are no romantic heroes with knobby knees, dirty fingernails and unkempt hair. The awkward stage of adolescence brings into sharp focus some of the physical and emotional problems involved in growing up. These can more easily be overcome in a coeducational environment. Segregated schools sometimes provide the right conditions for sexual deviation. This is hardly possible under a coeducational system. When the time comes for the pupils to leave school, they are fully prepared to enter society as well-adjusted adults. They have already had years of experience in coping with many of the problems that face men and women. [br] The word "rivalry" underlined in Paragraph 3 means______.
选项 A、friendliness
B、hatred
C、partnership
D、competition
答案 D
解析    词义界定。假设rivalry对部分读者是生词，本题也有两种方法界定词义。第一种根据构词，rivalry=rival+ry构成，rival更常见，其意为是“竞争，对手”，加上后缀-ry变成了名词“竞争”，与选项D契合。第二种方法是根据语境猜词。根据“What nonsense coeducation makes of the argument that boys are cleverer than girls or vice versa!When segregated，boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart．Rivalry between the sexes is fostered”可知，有观点认为男孩子比女孩子聪明，或女孩子比男孩子聪明，所以不宜合校，这完全是胡说八道。当男女分校后，孩子们觉得彼此非我族类，从而滋生了性别间的竞争。这样看来，至少不是友好合作关系，即排除了选项A和C；但也不至于造成性别仇恨(选项B)，于是大致猜得其意为D。
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