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Researchers are finding that boys and girls really are from two different planets. Boys and girls have different "crisis points"
Researchers are finding that boys and girls really are from two different planets. Boys and girls have different "crisis points"
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2013-12-10
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Researchers are finding that boys and girls really are from two different planets. Boys and girls have different "crisis points", experts say, stages in their emotional and social development where things can go very wrong. Until recently, girls got all the attention. But boys are much more likely than girls to have discipline problems at school and to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder(ADD). Boys far outnumber girls in special-education classes. They’re also more likely to commit violent crimes and end up in jail.
Even normal boy behavior has come to be considered pathological(病态的)in the wake of the feminist movement. An abundance of physical energy and the urge to conquer — these are normal male characteristics, and in an earlier age they were good things, even essential to survival. "If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today," says Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys, "we’d say they had ADD. " He says one of the new insights we’re gaining about boys is a very old one: boys will be boys. "They are who they are," says Gurian, "and we need to love them for who they are. Let’s not try to rewire them. "
But what exactly is the essential nature of boys? Even as infants, boys and girls behave differently. A recent study at Children’s Hospital in Boston found that boy babies are more emotionally expressive; girls are more reflective.(That means boy babies tend to cry when they’re unhappy; girl babies suck their thumbs)This could indicate that girls are innately more able to control their emotions. Boys have higher levels of testosterone and lower levels of neurotransmitter serotonin, which inhabits aggression and impulsivity. That may help explain why more males than females carry through with suicide or become alcoholics.
There’s struggle — a desire and need for warmth on the one hand and a pull toward independence on the other. Boys are going through what psychologists long ago declared an integral part of growing up: individualization and disconnection from parents, especially mothers. But now some researchers think that process is too abrupt. When boys repress normal feelings like love because of social pressure, says William Pollack, head of the Center for Men at Boston’s McLean Hospital, "they’ve lost contact with the genuine nature of whom they are and what they feel. Boys are in a silent crisis. The only time we notice it is when they pull the trigger. "
The word "rewire"(Para. 2)could best be replaced by______.
选项
A、restore to a former condition
B、recognize the worth of
C、change the nature of
D、address the problems of
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的信号词“rewire”以及出处提示语Para.2可回文定位到第二段尾句Let’s not try to rewire them(我们不应试图……他们)。鉴于词汇推断题的思路是根据问题词汇的上文或下文信息分析推断词义,故考生须关注本句的上文信息(段尾句使然),以寻找线索:They are who they are,and we need to love them for who they are(他们就是他们,我们应该爱他们本来的样子),据此可推知我们不应该试图“改变他们的本质”,故答案为C。
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考研英语一
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