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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.
The author believes that a single-sex school would______.
选项 A、force boys to hide their emotions to be "real men"
B、help to cultivate masculine aggressiveness in boys
C、encourage boys to express their emotions more freely
D、naturally reinforce in boys the traditional image of a man
答案C
解析 根据题干中的single-sex school将本题出处定位到第三段。该段提到，单一性别的学校里的男孩更有可能参与到文艺活动中，这有利于发展他们的情感表达，而不是让他们感到必须遵从“男孩准则”，必须隐藏自己的感情……，由此可知，单性学校能让男生更自由地表达他们的情感，故答案为[C]。[A]与文中的rather than…hiding their emotions to be a“real man”矛盾。[B]与第二段的Far from…masculinity矛盾。 [D]与第二段的Far from the traditional image矛盾。
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