Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex. How would you (1) Unless there was (2) definitely wrong with you, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to (3) the least. It is all the (4) surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such (5) conditions (6) their children--conditions which they themselves wouldn’t put up with for one minute! Any discussion of this topic is (7) to question the aims of education. Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is (8) being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of education is to (9) future citizens with all they require to (10) their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school (11) offer the right kind of preparation for it Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a (12) . A co-educational school offers children nothing (13) a true (14) of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the (15) to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare them selves with each other (16) academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extracurricular activities which are (17) of school life. What a (18) advantage it is (to give just an 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 (19) co-education 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. (20) between the sexes is fostered. In a co-educational school, everything falls into its proper place. Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.13（）

A. wisdom
B. nonsense
C. bias
D. significance