Question

【題目】Boys are not so good at English when there are girls in their class, a research student said. This finding disagrees with the widely held belief that girls always have a good influence on boys in school.

Boys do best with as few girls as possible in English lessons at primary and secondary schools, Steven Proud, a research student at Bristol University, told the Royal Economic Society’s conference.

But when it comes to math and science, both boys and girls at primary schools achieve up to a tenth of a grade higher when there is a greater percentage of girls in the class, Proud found.

Proud kept a record of boys’ and girls’ test results at the ages of 7, 11, and 16 in 16,000 schools in England. He studied the test scores to see whether the percentage of girls made a difference to the results of both boys and girls in math, science and English.

Boys always perform worse when the number of girls they study English with increases, which is especially the case at primary schools. Proud also found that girls are unaffected by the number of boys in their English class.

Proud said boys may do worse in English when there is high proportion(比例) of girls in their class because they think that the girls are better than them. It could also be that teachers use teaching styles more appropriate(適合) to girls when there are more girls than boys in the class.

Proud argues that his results show boys should be taught English in single-sex classes.

However, Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, said, “Boys may be discouraged by how well girls are doing in English, but you can’t say that it means boys and girls should be separated. It has very little practical importance to schools.”

Theme	Boys may do _【1】__ in English in a class with a higher percentage of girls.
Widely held ____【2】_____	Girls always have a good influence on boys in school.
Proud’s ___【3】___	When there are more girls	both boys and girls at primary schools perform better in math and ___【5】____.
	When the number of girls _【4】____.	boys perform worse in English
	When the number of boys changes	girls aren’t __【6】___ in an English class.
Possible ____【7】___.	Boys think that the girls are better than them. Teachers use ___【8】___ styles more appropriate to girls.
Proud’s suggestion	Boys and girls should be taught English in _【9】___ classes.
Alan’s opinion	Don’t ___【10】____ the boys and girls.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】worse

【2】belief

【3】findings

【4】science

【5】increases

【6】affected

【7】causes/reasons

【8】teaching

【9】single-sex

【10】separate

【解析】

試題分析：文章講述的是一項研究發(fā)現(xiàn)。研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，班里的女生越多，男生的英語成績就會越差。這可能是由男生的錯誤認(rèn)知或老師的教學(xué)風(fēng)格引起的。

【1】根據(jù)“Boys are not so good at English when there are girls in their class”可知，當(dāng)班級里有女孩時，男孩子的英語成績不如她們的好，由此可知，女生比例越高，男生的英語成績越差，故填worse。

【2】根據(jù)“This finding disagrees with the widely held belief that...”可知，這里應(yīng)該填belief，指人們普遍認(rèn)為......，故填belief。

【3】根據(jù)第三段“when there is a greater percentage of girls in the class, Proud found.”和第五段“Proud also found that girls are unaffected by the number of boys in their English class.”可知，這里講的是Proud的研究成果，故填findings。

【4】根據(jù)第三段“But when it comes to math and science, both boys and girls at primary schools achieve up to a tenth of a grade higher...”可知，當(dāng)班里女生占較大比例時，在數(shù)學(xué)和科學(xué)方面，男孩和女孩都會取得更好的成績，故填science。

【5】根據(jù)第五段“Boys always perform worse when the number of girls they study English with increases”可知，當(dāng)與男生一起學(xué)英語的女生數(shù)量增加時，男生的英語成績會下降，故填increases。

【6】根據(jù)第五段“girls are unaffected by the number of boys in their English class”可知，班里男孩的數(shù)量不會影響女生的成績，故填affected。

【7】根據(jù)第六段“because they think that the girls are better than them. It could also be that teachers use teaching styles more appropriate(適合) to girls when there are more girls than boys in the class.”可知，這里講的是男生英語成績受女生人數(shù)的影響這一現(xiàn)象的原因，故填causes/reasons。

【8】根據(jù)第六段“teachers use teaching styles more appropriate(適合) to girls”可知，教師所使用的教學(xué)風(fēng)格可能更適合女生，故填teaching。

【9】根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段“Proud argues that his results show boys should be taught English in single-sex classes.”可知，Proud認(rèn)為男生和女生應(yīng)該分開上英語課，故填single-sex。

【10】根據(jù)最后一段“you can’t say that it means boys and girls should be separated”可知，Alan不贊成男生和女生分開上課，故填separate。