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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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2014-09-18
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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.
(17)
选项
A、difference
B、contrast
C、change
D、improvement
答案
D
解析
本句承接前面弗林的话,他认为女性IQ测试得分在落后于男性一个世纪之后得以反超,这是一种进步,因此选D。difference“不同”;contrast“对比,对照”:change“改变”。
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