[单选题]Passage 1Opening a book for the very first time still fills me wi

1.[单选题]Passage 1Opening a book for the very first time still fills me with the same excitement and expectation that it did when I was a child. Not only do books enable children to discover new worlds, meet new people and learn about the past, but they also have the power to change lives. By sparking imaginations, stimulating critical thinking and helping develop empathy (共鸣), reading gives children the very literacy (会读会写) skills they need to succeed at school, at work and in life. Helping children discover a love of reading is crucial, but it is worrying today that children's enjoyment of reading is falling behind their reading skills.Why does this matter? While reading skills are essential, reading for pleasure is crucial for academic success, mental health and even later economic success. The emphasis here is on reading for pleasure: being able to read does not give the same benefits as enjoying it.Getting the right book into the right child's hands at the right time is the key. Yet1 in 8 disadvantaged children in the UK don't own a single book and primary school libraries have closed across the nation. If your parents can't afford to buy books and your primary school hasn't got a library, how on earth are you supposed to become a reader for pleasure?The problem is bigger for boys than it is for girls. Many parents tell me that my books have been effective in turning their boys into readers. I have to say that although it is always a pleasure to be told that my books have been effective, it has never been my intention to target boys specifically. I don't want to write either a boys' book or a girls' book, or draw conclusions about boy or girl behavior.I haven't found the gender of the characters in my books to be an issue. I've lost count of the number of nine-year-old boys who say that Camicazi, the girl hero in How to Train Your Dragon, is their favorite character. That is why I prefer boys and girls reading the same books. Girls need to see girls like themselves being strong, dynamic heroes, and boys do too.What might be the author's attitude towards reading and gender? A Boys need more help with reading. B There's no relation between the two. C Reading helps improve gender equality. D Girls should read more books about heroes.

2.We may still remember the girl with big eyes. Her big eyes are 1 us her dream: I wish to 2 ! In China, there are still 3 girls and boys like her. They want to go to school, but their 4 are too poor. If the family has three or more children, it is hard for the parents to afford the education fee for 5 the children. So they often ask 6 to stay at home, and boys to go to school. Now they 7 pay the money. From 2006 on, children can go to school for free in some poor places. They don't have to 8 books and other things. Some of them can even get money from the government to make their life 9 . Soon, all the children in the countryside can go to school for free. All families are very happy with the news. It is 10 great.2 选项： A:teachers B:girls C:boys

3.We may still remember the girl with big eyes. Her big eyes are 1 us her dream: I wish to 2 ! In China, there are still 3 girls and boys like her. They want to go to school, but their 4 are too poor. If the family has three or more children, it is hard for the parents to afford the education fee for 5 the children. So they often ask 6 to stay at home, and boys to go to school. Now they 7 pay the money. From 2006 on, children can go to school for free in some poor places. They don't have to 8 books and other things. Some of them can even get money from the government to make their life 9 . Soon, all the children in the countryside can go to school for free. All families are very happy with the news. It is 10 great. 选项： A:teachers B:girls C:boys

4.We may still remember the girl with big eyes. Her big eyes are 1 us her dream: I wish to 2 ! In China, there are still 3 girls and boys like her. They want to go to school, but their 4 are too poor. If the family has three or more children, it is hard for the parents to afford the education fee for 5 the children. So they often ask 6 to stay at home, and boys to go to school. Now they 7 pay the money. From 2006 on, children can go to school for free in some poor places. They don't have to 8 books and other things. Some of them can even get money from the government to make their life 9 . Soon, all the children in the countryside can go to school for free. All families are very happy with the news. It is 10 great.A.teachers 选项： A:girls B:boys

5.5.What do you like to do just after you finish work every day?（高频）选项： A:When I finish my work. I always have my nose in a book whenever I have free time. because I'm kind of a bookworm. Plus, reading is a great way to unwind and receive new information. It allows me to experience multiple realities, but also challenges my perspective. When I finish reading a book, it gives me a sense of satisfaction.

6.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. What does the passage say about teenage boys and girls 选项： A、Only one out of four girls cries less often than boys. B、Of four boys, only one cries very often. C、Girls cry four times as often as boys. D、Only one out of four babies doesn’t cry often.

7.Many people believe that boys and girls should be educated in separate classes because their brains are to learn in different ways. For the past decade parents and teachers have become worried increasingly about boys, who are now routinely outperformed by girls at every level and who show growing levels of self-dissatisfaction and lack of motivation. Dr. Sax, founder of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education in the United States, argues that this gender gap is the result of innately different learning styles of boys and girls, and that most classrooms play to the strength of girls. Boys, for example, do not hear as well as girls. So, a female teacher with a soft voice may believe that a boy who is not paying attention is playing up, when actually he cannot hear her properly. Her reaction may be to discipline him. But Dr. Sax says that she would get better results by speaking louder and moving purposefully around the classroom. Boys eyes also respond better to movement and direction, while girls eyes are more affected by color and texture. Asked to draw, five-year-old girls produce flowers, pets and people. Boys will draw a car crash, but may be reproached by teachers for producing something that is "not nice". Similarly, although most girls can sit still from a young age, most boys need to be active to discover their own pace. One result, Dr. Sax believes, is the overdiagnosis of attention deficit disorder among boys who are considered inattentive by teachers. Parents and doctors are tempted to treat this with medication, when simply putting them in a boy-friendly classroom would be far more effective. The failure of schools to understand why gender matters means that boys very often switch off from learning from an early age and never reengage. Long after their sisters have gone to university, they are still trapped at home suffering from "failure to launch" into adult life. The solution, Dr. Sax believes, lies in single-sex education provided by teachers trained to understand the differences in brain function between boys and girls.（1）What does the passage mainly talk about? 选项： A:Why boys and girls should be educated separately. B:Why boys and girls are treated differently at school. C:Why more boys suffer from attention deficit disorder. D:Why more girls are found to lack motivation at school.

8.Rose and Mary are from two different cultures. They are talking about one aspect of their family and seem to have different points of view.Rose: I think it’s terrible that in your country children leave parents when they are so young. Something that shocks me even more is that many parents want their children to leave home. I can’t understand why children and parents don’t like each other in your country？Mary: In your country parents don’t allow their children to become independent. Parents keep their children protected until the children get married. How are young people in your country supposed to learn about life that way? Whose opinion do you think is right? 选项： A:Rose is right, because it is the parents’ responsibility to protect their children.; B:Mary is right, because the children should be independent when they are grown-up.; C:The two opinions are examples of ethnocentrism, for people unconsciously tend to make judgments based on their own value systems. ; D:It’s hard to decide who is right because both of them make sense in part.

9.What is the main point made in the lecture 选项： A、It is a sexist plot to have different toys for boys and girls. B、Girls like playing with dolls because of social conditioning. C、Most children do not care if their toys are for boys or girls. D、Boys and girls naturally prefer different types of toys.