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 obey a stereotype (陈规旧俗), 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 obey 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 criticized teachers for failing to recognize 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, an 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 modem type 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 obey a stereotype that men should be "masterful and in charge" in relationships."In mixed schools boys feel forced to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means," the study reported.
【小题1】The author believes that a single-sex school would ____.

A.force boys to hide their emotions to be "real men"
B.encourage boys to express their emotions more freely
C.help to cultivate masculine aggressiveness in boys
D.naturally reinforce in boys the traditional image of a man
【小题2】It is commonly believed that in a mixed school boys ____.
A.perform relatively better
B.grow up more healthily
C.behave more responsibly
D.receive a better education
【小题3】What docs Tony Little say about the British education system?
A.It fails more boys than girls academically.
B.It focuses more on mixed school education.
C.it fails to give boys the attention they need.
D.It places more pressure on boys than on girls.
【小题4】According to Abigail James, one of the advantages of single-sex schools is ____.
A.teaching can be tailored to suit the characteristics of boys
B.boys can focus on their lessons without being distracted
C.boys can choose to learn whatever they are interested in
D.teaching can be designed to promote boys' team spirit
【小题5】Which of the following is characteristic of boys according to Abigail James' report?
A.They enjoy being in charge.
B.They obey stereotypes.
C.They are violent and sexist.
D.They have sharper vision.

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
阅读下面的短文,然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
“Can I see my baby?” asked the happy new mother. The bundle(婴儿包)was placed in her arms and when she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped-the baby has been born without ears. Time, however, proved that the baby’s hearing was perfect except his appearance.
One day when he rushed home from school and threw himself into his mother’s arms, he cried out bitterly, “A boy, a big boy… called me a f-…freak.” She sighed, knowing that his life was to be endless of heartbreaks.
He grew up, handsome for his misfortune. A favorite with his fellow students, he might have been class president, but for that. He developed a gift for literature and music.
The boy’s father had a talk with the family doctor. Could nothing be done? “I believe we could graft(移植)on a pair of outer ears, if they could be donated(捐献),”the doctor decided. So the search began for a person who would make such a sacrifice a young man. Two years went by. Then, “You’re going to the hospital, son. Mother and I have someone who will donate the ears you need. But it’s a secret,” said the father.
The operation was a brilliant success. His talents blossomed (开花)into genius. School and college became a series of successes. Later he married and entered the diplomatic(外交)service. “But I must know!” he urged his father. “Who gave so much for me? I could never do enough for him.”
“I do not believer you could,” said the father, “but the agreement was that you are not to know….not yet.” The years kept the secret, but the day did come…. one of the darkest days that ever pass through a son. He stood with his father over his mother’s casket(棺材).Slowly and tenderly, the father stretched forth a hand and raised the thick, reddish-brown hair to let out the secret.
[写作内容]1、 以约30个词概括这个感人的故事;
2、 以约120个词,请就“在受别人的帮助中,学会了帮助别人”的话题写一篇英语短文,
表达你内心的感受,并包括如下要点:
1)你看完这个故事后,你如何评价这位母亲的无私行为;
2)请以你的日常生活经历的事情为例,说明别人的善良行为对你的影响;
3)你的感想。
[写作要求]1、 作文中可使用自己的亲身经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子;
2、 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称;3、 标题自定。
[评分标准] 概括准确、语言规范、内容合适,篇章连贯。

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
When I was 16 years old,a boy gave me an important gift. __【小题1】__
It was the early autumn of my first year at a junior high school, and my old school was very far away.__【小题2】__I was very lonely, and afraid to make friends with anyone.
Every time I heard the other students talking and laughing, I felt very heart broken. I couldn’t talk with anyone about my problems. And I didn’t want my parents to worry about me.
Then the other day, my classmates talked happily with their friends ,but I sat at my desk unhappily as usual.__【小题3】__I didn’t know who he was. He passed me and then turned back. He looked at me, with a smile on his face.
Suddenly, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly. It made me feel happy, lively and warm.
__【小题4】__I started to talk with other students and made friends. Day by day, I became closer to everyone in my class. The boy with the lucky smile has become my best friend now!
One day, I asked him why he smiled, but he couldn’t remember smiling at me!  【小题5】I believe that the world is what you think it is. If you think it lonely, you might always be alone. So smile at the world and it will smile back.

A.At that moment, a boy entered the classroom.
B.He is living in Australia now and he loves it.
C.It doesn’t matter because all the dark days have gone.
D.It was a smile.
E.That smile changed my life.
F.It’s practically impossible to make friends here.
G.As a result, no one knew who I was.

A doctor entered the hospital in a hurry after being called in for an urgent ? ? ? He answered the call as soon as possible, changed his clothes and went directly to the operation blockHe found the boy's father ? ? ? in the hall waiting for the doctorOn seeing him, the dad ? ? ?? , "Why did you take all this ? ? ? to come? Don't you know that my son s life is in danger? Don't you have any sense of?? ? ? ?"

????????????? The doctor smiled and said, "I am sorry, I wasn't in the hospital and I ? ?? ? as fast as I could after receiving the call...And now, I wish you'd calm down work"???? ? I can do my work.”

?? “Calm down? What if your son is in this room right now, would you calm down? If your own son is?? ? ? now what will you do?” said the father ? ?

??? The doctor smiled again and replied," I will say what Job said in the Bible 'From dust we came and to dust we return, blessed by the name of God'? ? ? cannot extend livesGo and ? ? ? for your sonwe will do our best by God's grace"

????????????? "Giving advice when we re not ? ? ? is so easy" murmured the fatherThe operation took some hours ? ? ? which the doctor went out happily

??? "Thank goodness!? Your son is saved ! " And without waiting for the father's reply he carried on his?? ? ?? running“If you have any question, ask the nurse!"

????????????? "Why is he so ? ? ? ? He couldn't wait some minutes so that I could ask about my son's ? ? ? ?" commented the father when seeing the nurse minutes after the doctor leftThe nurse answered, ? ? ?? coming down her face, "His son died yesterday in a road accidentHe was in the funeral when we called him for your son's operation?? ? ? now that he saved your son's life, he left running to finish his son's funeral"

????????????? Never? ? ? anyone...because you never know how their life is and what they're?? ? ? .

1.Ameeting????????????? Bcareer????????????? Coperation????????????? Dtravel

2.Acalling????????????? Brunning????????????? Cjumping????????????? Dpacing

3.Aadmitted????????????? Bexpressed????????????? Cwhispered????????????? Dshouted

4.Atime????????????? Bcost????????????? Clove????????????? Dturn

5.Ahumor????????????? Bresponsibility????????????? Cpride????????????? Dhonor

6.Aworked????????????? Bleft????????????? Ccame????????????? Dmoved

7.Ain case????????????? Bso that????????????? Cuntil????????????? Deven if

8.Adying????????????? Blying????????????? Cmissing????????????? Ddropping

9.Asadly????????????? Bcheerfully????????????? Chopefully????????????? Dangrily

10.AGod????????????? BTeachers??????? ????????????? CFriends???????? ????????????? DDoctors

11.Aspeak????????????? Bspell?????????? ????????????? Cpray?????????? ????????????? Dthink

12.Aworried????????????? Bconcerned????? ????????????? Clost?????????? ????????????? Dtired

13.Aafter????????????? Bfor??????????? ????????????? Cbefore?? ????????????? Dwith

14.Away????????????? Bspirit????????? ????????????? Ctrust????????? ????????????? Ddream

15.Apatient????????????? Bproud??????? ????????????? Cpowerful? ????????????? Dabsent

16.Aposition????????????? Bmedicine????? ????????????? Cstate??? ????????????? Dlife

17.Asweats????????????? Bcold????????? ????????????? Cclouds??????? ????????????? Dtears

18.AAnd????????????? BBut??????????? ????????????? COr????????? ????????????? DWhile

19.Aignore????????????? Bjudge??????????? Cexplain???????? ????????????? Dbelieve

20.Adoing????????????? Bloading???????? ????????????? Cexperiencing??? ????????????? Dreducing

 

He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.

“What's the matter, Schatz?”

“I've got a headache.”

“You better go back to bed.”

“No. I'm all right.”

“You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed.”

But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

“You go up to bed,” I said, “You're sick.”

“I'm all right,” he said.

When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.

“What's is it?” I asked him.

“One hundred and two.”

Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative(泻药), the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza(流感)can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(传染病;传染性的) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia(肺炎).

Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.

“Do you want me to read to you?”

“All right. If you want to, “ said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached(超然的;冷漠的)from what was going on.

I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates(海盗);but I could see he was not following what I was reading.

“How do you feel, Schatz?” I asked him.

“Just the same, so far,” he said.

I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.

“Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine.”

“I'd rather stay awake.”

After a while he said to me, “You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.”

“It doesn't bother me.”

“No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you.”

I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out with my gun and the young hunting dog….I killed two quail(鹌鹑), and missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey of quail close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.

At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.

“You can't come in,” he said. “You mustn't get what I have.”

I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed(发红)by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.

I took his temperature.

“What is it?”

“Something like a hundred,” I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.

“It was a hundred and two,” he said.

“Who said so?”

“The doctor.”

“Your temperature is all right,” I said. “It's nothing to worry about.”

“I don't worry,” he said, “but I can't keep from thinking.”

“Don't think,” I said. “Just take it easy.”

“I'm taking it easy,” he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something.

“Take this with water.”

“Do you think it will do any good?”

“Of course it will.”

I sat down and opened the Pirate book and began to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.

“About what time do you think I'm going to die?” he asked.

“What?”

“About how long will it be before I die?”

“You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you? “

“Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and two.”

“People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk.”

“I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two.”

He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning.

“You poor Schatz,” I said. “Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight.”

“Are you sure?”

“Absolutely,” I said, “It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?”

“Oh,” he said.

But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack(松驰的) and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.

1.The author writes about the doctor’s visit in order to _____.

A.show the doctor’s knowledge about influenza and its treatment

B.show the boy’s illness was quite serious

C.create a situation of misunderstanding around which to build a story

D.show the father was very much concerned about the boy’s illness

2.The pronoun “it” in “Papa, if it bothers you” (line 41) refers to _____.

A.the boy’s high temperature

B.the father giving the medicine to the boy

C.the father staying with the boy

D.the boy’s death

3.It can be inferred from the story that it is _____ by the time the father gets home from hunting.

A.early in the afternoon

B.close to evening

C.at noon

D.late in the morning

4.From the story we know that the boy kept tight control over himself because _____.

A.he did not want to be a bother to others

B.he wanted to recover quickly so that he could go hunting with his father

C.he was afraid that he would die if he lost control over himself

D.he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death

5.That the boy cried very easily at little things of no importance the next day suggests that _____.

A.he couldn’t control his emotions when he finally relaxed

B.his father would go out hunting without him if he didn’t cry

C.something went wrong with his brain after the fever

D.he often complained about unimportant things as a spoiled boy

6.The theme of the story is _____.

A.death is something beyond a child’s comprehension

B.to be calm and controlled in the face of death is a mark of courage

C.misunderstanding can occur even between father and son

D.misunderstanding can sometimes lead to an unexpected effect

 

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