Question

There is one difference between the sexes on which every expert and study agrees: men are more aggressive than women. It shows up in 2-year-olds. It continues through school days and persists into adulthood. It is even constant across cultures. And there is little doubt that it is rooted in biology.

      If there's a woman’s trait(特點(diǎn)) which is the same as men’s aggressiveness, it's what social scientists refer to as the result of "education". Feminists have argued that the caring nature of women is not biological in origin, but rather has been forced into women by a society that wanted to keep them in the home. But the signs that it is at least partly inborn are too numerous to ignore. Just as tiny infant girls respond more readily to human faces, female toddlers(學(xué)步者) learn much faster than males how to pick up nonverbal cues（非言語暗示） from others. And grown women are far more skilful than men at interpreting facial expressions: A recent study by University of Pennsylvania brain researcher Ruben Gur showed that they easily read emotions such as anger, sadness and fear. The only such emotion men could pick up was disgust.

　 What difference do such differences make in the real world? Among other things, women appear to be somewhat less competitive--or at least competitive in different ways--than men. At the Harvard Law School, for instance, female students enter with qualities just as outstanding as those of their male peers. But they don' t qualify for the well-known Law Review in proper numbers, a fact some school officials owe to women' s discomfort in the incredibly competitive atmosphere.

　　Students of management styles have found fewer differences than they expected between men and women who reach leadership positions, perhaps because many successful women deliberately imitate men. But an analysis by Purdue social psychologist Alice Eagly of 166 studies of leadership style did find one difference: Men tend to be more “autocratic”-making decisions on their own--while women tend to consult colleagues more often.  Studies of behavior in small groups turn up even more differences. Men will typically dominate the discussion, says University of Toronto psychologist Kenneth Dion, spending more time talking and less time listening.

The passage mainly discusses__________.

　           A. how sex differences are demonstrated in social relations

　　      B. how hormone determines sex differences

　　      C. why there are differences between males and females

　　      D. why men and women have different social roles

Which of the following is true of women's nurturing nature according to the passage?

A. It is not inborn in any sense.

B. It is inspired by women’s families.

C. It is caused by social prejudice.

D. It is partly biological in origin.

The Harvard Law School example in paragraph 3 suggests that_________.

A. women are not as competitive as men

B. law is not the fight profession for women

C. women are as excellent as men when they are young

D. academic qualities are not equal to performance

Which of the following statement is true according to paragraph 4?

A. Men leaders should consult colleagues and subordinates more often.

B. Female leaders' success is due to their imitating male leaders.

C. Men and women are different in their leadership style.

D. Decisiveness is an important quality for a successful politician.

It can be inferred from the passage that the writer_________.

A. denies the difference sexes make in real life

B. is prejudiced against men

C. discourages women to be competitive

D. treats sex difference objectively

Answer 1

【小題1】A

【小題2】D

【小題3】A

【小題4】C

【小題5】D

解析:

【小題1】 主旨題.本文在前兩段論述了男女性別的差異，在第三段第一句提出問題“這種差異在現(xiàn)實(shí)中有什么意義”，緊接著后面開始闡述這種差別所導(dǎo)致的男女在競爭及工作中的不同表現(xiàn). 故選A。

【小題2】 細(xì)節(jié)題. 由第二段第三句“But the signs that it is at least partly inborn are too numerous to ignore．”可知，女性的這個(gè)特征有先天方面的原因. 故選D。

【小題3】 主旨題.該段的主旨句是第二句“…women appear to be somewhat less competitive…”, 該句提出了“女性在競爭力方面不如男性”的觀點(diǎn)，后文所舉例證即是為了證明這一觀點(diǎn).故選A。

【小題4】 判斷題. 由文章第四段最后一句“Men tend to more…mote often．”可知，男性比較專斷而女性則喜歡和同事商量再做決定. 從而看出男女在管理方式上的差異. 故選C。

【小題5】推理題.作者在說男女之間差異時(shí)并無偏袒任何一方，而是通過研究結(jié)果來分析說明男女的差異，因此是客觀的表達(dá)，故選D。