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Passage One Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. Boys’ schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dance and music. Far from the traditional image of a culture of aggressive masculinity(阳刚), the absence of girls gives boys the chance to develop without pressure to conform to a stereotype, a US study says. Boys at single-sex schools were said to be more likely to get involved in cultural and artistic activities that helped develop their emotional expressiveness, rather than feeling they had to conform to the "boy code" of hiding their emotions to be a "real man". The findings of the study go against received wisdom that boys do better when taught alongside girls. Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being failed by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls. He criticised teachers for failing to recognise that boys are actually more emotional than girls. The research argued that boys often perform badly in mixed schools because they become discouraged when their female peers do better earlier in speaking and reading skills. But in single-sex schools teachers can tailor lessons to boys’ learning style, letting them move around the classroom and getting them to compete in teams to prevent boredom, wrote the study’s author, Abigail James, of the University of Virginia. Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with "boy-focused" approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them. Because boys generally have more acute vision, learn best through touch, and are physically more active, they need to be given "hands-on" lessons where they are allowed to walk around. "Boys in mixed schools view classical music as feminine (女性的) and prefer the modem genre (类型) in which violence and sexism are major themes," James wrote. Single-sex education also made it less likely that boys would feel they had to conform to a stereotype that men should be "masterful and in charge" in relationships. "In mixed schools, boys feel compelled to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means," the study reported. It is commonly believed that in a mixed school boys().

A. perform relatively better
B. grow up more healthily
C. behave more responsibly
D. receive a better education

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Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own (1)______, I no longer imagine I can get through a (2)______day, much less all my life, (3)______on my own. Even if I am on (4)______in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has (5)______from cloth woven by others, using (6)______someone else is distributing to my house. (7)______of interdependence is everywhere. We are on this (8)______together. As I was growing up, (9)______. "Make your own way", "Stand on your own two feet", or my mother’s favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: "Now that you’ve made your bed, lie on it!" Total independence is a dominant theme in our culture. I imagine that (10)______. But the teaching was shaped by our cultural images, and instead I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally "independent" and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help. (11)______. 3()

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. What do we learn about the man from the conversation?()

A. He likes Sweden better than England
B. He prefers hot weather to cold weather.
C. He is an Englishman living in Sweden.
D. He visits London nearly every winter.

Employers fear they will be unable to recruit students with the skills they need as the economic recovery kicks in, a new survey (1) . Nearly half of the organisations told researchers they were already struggling to find (2) with skills in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), (3) even more companies expect to experience (4) of employees with STEM skills in the next three years. The Confederation of British Industry (5) 694 businesses and organisations across the public and (6) sectors, which together employ 2.4 million people. Half are (7) they will not be able to fill graduate posts in the coming years, while a third said they would not be able to (8) enough employees with the right A-level skills. " (9) we move further into recovery and businesses plan (10) growth, the demand for people with high-quality skills and qualifications will (11) ," said Richard Lambert, Director General, CBI. "Firms say it is already hard to find people with the right (12) or engineering skills. The new government must make it a top (13) to encourage more young people to study science-related (14) ." The survey found that young people would improve their job prospects (15) they studied business, maths, English and physics or chemistry at A-level. The A-levels that employers (16) least are psychology and sociology. And while many employers don’t insist on a (17) degree subject, a third prefer to hire those with a STEM-related subject. The research (18) worries about the lack of progress in improving basic skills in the UK (19) . Half of the employers expressed worries about employees’ basic literacy and numeracy (计算) skills, while the biggest problem is with IT skills, (20) two-thirds reported concerns. 5()

A. surveyed
B. searched
C. exposed
D. exploited

全国主要流域水资源分布状况流域片水资源总量(亿立方米)地表水资源量(亿立方米)地下水资源量(亿立方米)地表水与地下资源重复量(亿立方米)降水量(亿立米)全国27460.226250.78299.37089.960415.5松花江1424.01211.4476.8264.24782.5辽河345.2255.4172.983.11586.2海河321.1130.8252.962.61862.9黄河827.3685.8426.3284.84417.9淮河1851.61520.8600.5269.63994.6长江10064.89959.72445.82340.618593.0东南诸河1312.41304.2400.8392.72486.1珠江4172.24159.11223.41210.37587.9西南诸河5771.65771.51406.41406.48925.7西北诸河1369.51252.0893.5775.76179.7 根据上表数据不能得出的结论是( )。

A. 我国水资源分布不平衡
B. 全国各个江河流域地下水储量不平衡
C. 全国各个地区的江河数量不平衡
D. 我国各个江河流域的降水量不平衡

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