模拟卷湖北省黄冈中学2010届高三11月月考英语试题

educating children.

For example, girls are born with more sensitive hearing than boys, and the difference increases as kids grow up. So when a grown man speaks to a girl in what he thinks is a normal voice, she may hear it as yelling. Conversely (反过来), boys who appear to be inattentive in class may just be sitting too far away too hear the teacher.

Likewise, girls are better in their expression of feelings. Studies reveal that negative emotions are seated in an area of the brain called the amygdala. Girls develop all early connection between this area and the cerebral cortex (大脑皮层), enabling them to talk about their feelings. In boys these links develop later. So if you ask a troubled adolescent boy to tell you what his feelings are, he often cannot say much.

Dr. Sax, an advocate of single-sex education, points out that keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Therefore, parents and teachers should try to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy.

67．What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Boys tend to pay less attention in class than girls.

B. Girls are better than boys in their ability to detect sounds.

C. Boys and girls behave differently because of biological differences.

D. Single-sex schools are not good because they keep boys and girls separate.

68．Why do girls express negative feelings better than boys?

A. Girls are more emotional than boys.

B. Girls have more brain cells than boys.

C. The amygdala is located in different areas of the brain for boys and girls.

D. The links between certain parts of the brain develop earlier in girls than in boys.

69．Which of the following does the author believe?

A. Girls need more training in communication.

B. Boys and girls should be educated in different ways.

C. Parents should pay more attention to boys.

D. Sex differences should be ignored in education。

70．What does the phase “cling to” in the first paragraph mean?

A. maintain B. abandon C. evaluate D. challenge

第四部分：书面表达（满分40分）

第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上相应的括号内。

71．_________________________ (我确信) that justice will be done one day. (convince)

72．_________________________ (他可能看过) the film before? (see)

73．The students _________________________ (他严格要求) are from families with different

backgrounds. (strict)

74．His age _________________________ (应该考虑) when we judge his work. (account)

75．_________________________ (不上大学) is not a shame. (go)