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Boys’ schools are the perfect place to teach young men to express their emotions and involve them in activities such as art, dan

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问题     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 modern 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______.
选项 A、perform relatively better
B、grow up more healthily
C、behave more responsibly
D、receive a better education
答案A
解析 根据题干中的commonly believed和boys将本题出处定位到第四段。该段提到的received wisdom与题干的关键词commonly believed对应，that引导的同位语从句指出了人们通常的看法，即男女生一起学习时男生表现更好，也就是说，男生在mixed school里表现更好，[A]与文中的do better同义，故为答案。文中未提到人们通常认为在混合学校里男生能更健康地成长，故排除[B]。[C]是针对末段的masterful and in charge设的干扰项。从第三、七和末段可知，[D]描述的是single-sex school的教育，不是mixed school的教育，故排除。
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