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It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women. This means that little girls may learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of different information at the same time. When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time.
There are other important differences between two sexes（性别）. As white matter is the key to spatial（空间的）tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things. “A great footballer always knows where he is in relation to the other players, and he knows where to go,” says one researcher. That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions … and women often need to!
The differences begin when fetuses（胎儿）are about nine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children when they are very young. A boy would try to climb a barrier before him or push it down while a girl would ask for help from others. These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills. It may all go back to our ancestors, among whom women needed speech skills to take care of their babies and men needed spatial skills to hunt, according to one research.
【小题1】Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?
| A．Grey matter controls thinking in the brain. |
| B．Men’s brain is 10% less than women’s. |
| C．Grey matter plays the same role as white matter. |
| D．Men and women have the same amount of white matter. |
| A．Men have weaker spatial abilities. |
| B．Women do not need to tell directions. |
| C．Women prefer doing many things at a time. |
| D．Women do many jobs at a time better than men. |
| A．Our children needed more spatial skills. |
| B．Women may have more feelings than men. |
| C．Young boys may be stronger than young girls. |
| D．More women take up jobs requiring speech skills. |
| A．ways of being more intelligent |
| B．differences between men and women |
| C．studies on brains between two sexes |
| D．studies on white matter and grey matter |
It's Saturday morning and Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring（凝视）into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even hungry. Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do and there's just one reason: the Internet is down and Tony has nothing to do.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling great. He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other—a great weekend. But that was before he turned on his computer and wasn’t able to go online. No Internet changed everything.
Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal(平常的)weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the kitchen. "Is everything OK?" she asks. "No, mum, everything is definitely(的确)not OK," her sad son replies. "I can't go online and I have homework to finish." His mum laughs, "The word program is still working, so what's the problem?"
What's the problem? Tony can't believe his own mother isn’t able to see how serious the problem really is. To start with, he still needs to do research for his homework. He knows his mum will tell him to go to the library but he hates the library. It's so dark and uncomfortable. And forget homework—what about the rest of his weekend! Every weekend, he goes online to email friends. Then he reads the news to catch up on what's happening in the world. He plays a few online games and finishes the weekend off with an online chess game with his cousin Helen. The wonderful weekend-online! Now it's Saturday morning and he's not going to have access to（进入）the Internet for two whole days.
【小题1】Tony stared into space and played with a piece of bread __________.
| A．because he was hungry |
| B．because he was hungry |
| C．because he was alone at home |
| D．because the Internet was down |
| A．great | B．excited |
| C．sad | D．relaxed |
| A．go to the library for work | B．get the Internet fixed |
| C．play his friends outside | D．play chess with his cousin |
| A．how to surf the Internet |
| B．what to do on the Internet |
| C．how the Internet influences teenagers’ life |
| D．why teenagers should go online |
Mr. Jackson works in a college. He likes reading and often 1 some books from the library. He keeps 2 to the radio every morning and reading 3 after dinner. So he knows much and teaches well. He is also good 4 his students. His students 5 him very much. Mike, Mr. Jackson's little son is only nine. He 6 likes reading books. And he often asks his father some questions. Mr. Jackson always thinks his son is too 7 to understand him, so he chooses（选择） 8 ones to answer. Of course the boy is not satisfied (对……满意) with them.
One day Mike read something about the electric lights and was 9 them. When his father told him to do housework, he went on（继续）thinking 10 it. He asked him 11 questions, and his father answered all. Then his father said proudly（自豪地），“Fathers always know 12 than sons!” The boy thought for a while and said, “ 13 .” “Oh, why?” Mike didn't answer but asked. “ 14 invented（发明） the electric lights?” “Thomas Edison.” answered Mr. Jackson “Why didn't his father invent them then?” Mike asked again.
Looking at his son, Mr. Jackson didn't know 15 to answer.
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