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  3. Women have long been more in number than men on college campuses. They also hold more advanced degrees than their male(1)______.

Women have long been more in number than men on college campuses. They also hold more advanced degrees than their male(1)______.

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问题     Women have long been more in number than men on college campuses. They also hold more advanced degrees than their male(1)______. So it makes sense that women would also score higher on IQ tests. But for the last 100 years, they’ve lagged behind men by as much as five points—(2)_____ their scores have been rising.
    Finally, according to IQ expert James Flynn, women have(3)_____ the IQ gap and are in fact scoring higher than men, reports the Telegraph.
    IQ, the most widely used measure of(4)_____ and is determined based on the difference between one’s IQ score and the(5)_____ IQ score of a certain age group. It’s thought to be a product of both environmental and(6)_____ factors, and is a statistically reliable(7)_____ of future educational achievement, job(8)_____ and income. But the reasons for differences in IQ—for example, between races or genders—have long been widely(9)_____.
    There are many(10)_____ reasons that women finally surpassed men in IQ after a century of falling(11)_____, according to Flynn, who is writing a book about IQ and gender.
    One(12)_____ is that women have(13)_____ been capable of scoring higher but, because of gender stereotypes, never realized their own(14)_____. Gender-based differences in education,(15)_____ and social roles have historically set the(16)_____ lower for women.
    "This(17)_____ is more noticeable for women than for men(18)_____ they were socially and economically(19)_____ in the past," Flynn told the Telegraph.
    Now if only women could close in on that annoying(20)_____ gap.
(3)
选项 A、identified
B、narrowed
C、reduced
D、closed
答案D
解析 根据句中的“事实上得分高过男性”可知close“填平”更符合句意。如果男性和女性之间的IQ差距只是缩小了(narrow)，女性的IQ得分就不可能高过男性，因此排除B。identify“认出，识别”；reduce“减少”。
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