After 20 years of marriage, a husband may still not understand his wife. How

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问题     After 20 years of marriage, a husband may still not understand his wife. How is it that she is never at a【C1】______for words? How can she recall the names of a couple they met on holiday years ago? Now we know【C2】______to tell him: it’s her brain.
    Although there are obviously cultural reasons for the differences in emotions and behavior, recent breakthrough research reveals that the root of many puzzling differences between men and women may【C3】______in the head. Men’ s and women’ s brains【C4】______much in common, but they are definitely not the same【C5】______size, structure or insight. Broadly speaking, a woman’ s brain, like her body, is ten to fifteen percent smaller than a man’ s,【C6】______the regions dedicated to language may be more densely packed with brain cells.
    Girls generally speak earlier and read faster. The reason may be【C7】______females use both sides of the brain when they read. In【C8】______, males rely only on the left side. At every age, women’s memories top men’s. They have a greater ability to associate names with faces than men do, and they are【C9】______at recalling list. The events people remember best are those that an emotion is attached to. Since women use more of their right brains, which process emotions, they may do this automatically.
    While we don’ t yet know what all these findings imply, one thing is【C10】______: male and female brains do the same things, but they do them differently. [br] 【C8】

选项 A、fact
B、contrast
C、addition
D、consequence

答案 B

解析 本题考查固定短语。A.in fact实际上;B.in contrast相反;C.in addition此外;D.in consequence因而,由于…。这里是把两性进行比较,并与前文形成转折,故选B。
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