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Some twenty years ago, the performance of girls and boys in class was compared. Boys 【B1】______ better in exams, so various meas
Some twenty years ago, the performance of girls and boys in class was compared. Boys 【B1】______ better in exams, so various meas
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Some twenty years ago, the performance of girls and boys in class was compared. Boys 【B1】______ better in exams, so various measures were introduced to improve the performance of girls, including having single sex girl-only classes. Now, the situation is 【B2】______, with girls consistently out-performing boys.
So, what has【B3】______boys, and what can be done about it? John Dunsford, leader of the association of head teachers of【B4】______ schools, says that the academic failure of boys is a problem which has its roots in society rather than the classroom. Girls, more than boys, see education as a passport to a good job. On the other hand,【B5】______ Penny Lewis, a head teacher, young men lack【B6】______, which they hide with a show of bravado(虚张声势). They’re uncertain about their place in society. Some boys grow up in families where there is no male role model to follow.
Moreover, boys may learn in a different way to girls, preferring small amounts of work with immediate deadlines rather than large projects【B7】______ the distance. And education is not seen as "cool".
As one【B8】______ to a BBC website put it, "Girls achieve more at school because they are watching the future while the boys are watching the girls."
This is not just a problem in Britain. In a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and UNESCO, girls out-performed boys at reading at the age of 15 in all 45 countries. The UK【B9】______ninth out of the 45 countries for reading despite the fact that pupils in the UK spend less time reading than in most other countries.【B10】______, the study suggested that British children read for pleasure more often than those in other countries.
【B4】
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secondary
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此处需要填入形容词或名词,修饰schools。secondary schools意为“中学”。
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