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Although fear of math is not a purely female phenomenon, girls tend to drop out math sooner than boys, and adult women experienc
Although fear of math is not a purely female phenomenon, girls tend to drop out math sooner than boys, and adult women experienc
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2013-06-02
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问题
Although fear of math is not a purely female phenomenon, girls tend to drop out math sooner than boys, and adult women experience an aversion to math and math-related activities that is akin to anxiety. A 1972 survey of the amount of high school mathematics taken by incoming freshmen at Berkeley revealed that while 57 percent of the boys had taken four years of high school math, only 8 percent of the girls had had the same amount of preparation. Without four years of high school math, students at Berkeley, and at most other colleges and universities, are ineligible for the calculus sequence, unlikely to attempt chemistry or physics, and inadequately prepared for statistics and economics.
Unable to elect these entry-level courses, the remaining 92 percent of the girls will be limited, presumably, to the career choices that are considered feminine: the humanities, guidance and counseling, elementary school teaching, foreign languages, and the fine arts.
Boys and girls may be born alike with respect to math, but certain gender differences in performance emerge early according to several respected studies, and these differences remain through adulthood. They are:
1. Girls compute better than boys (elementary school and on).
2. Boys solve word problems better than girls (from age thirteen on).
3. Boys take more math than girls (from age sixteen on).
4. Girls learn to hate math sooner and possibly for different reasons.
Why differences in performance? One reason is the amount of math learned and used at play. Another may be the difference in male-female maturation. If girls do better than boys at all elementary school tasks, then they may compute better for no other reason than that arithmetic is part of the elementary school curriculum. As boys and girls grow older, girls become, under pressure, academically less competitive. Thus, the falling off of girls’ math performance between ages ten and fifteen may be because:
1. Math gets harder in each successive year and requires more work and commitment.
2. Both boys and girls are pressured, beginning at age ten, not to excel in areas designated by society to be outside their gender-role domains.
3. Thus girls have a good excuse to avoid the painful struggle with math: boys don’t.
Such a model may explain girls’ lower achievement in math overall, but why should girls even younger than ten have difficulty in problem-solving?
Most women enter college ______.
选项
A、with a strong math background
B、without the right academic advisement
C、without appropriate math preparation for certain majors
D、with sufficient math background
答案
C
解析
推理题。本题有点难度,选项C 可根据第一段最后一句推理出来。不过,也可采用排除法,因为 A ,D 其实表达的意思一个样,可以排除:B 项所说“没有取得合适的学习资格”与一般常识不符,因为一般上大学都要具备一定的资格,所以也应排除。这样, 剩下的C 项便是答案。
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