Question

New research, attempting to throw light upon how male and female brains differ, has found that timing is everything. American Vanderbilt University researchers Stephen Camarata and Richard Woodcock discovered that females have a significant advantage over males in timed tests and tasks. The study involved more than 8,000 males and females ranging in age from 2 to 90 from across the US.

“We found hardly any differences in overall intelligence. But we discovered that females performed better than men in time limited situations,” Camarata said, “It is very important for teachers to understand this difference in males and females when it comes to assigning work and tests.”

Many males can do a better job without strict time limits, added Camarata.

“Consider that many classroom activities, including testing, are directly or indirectly related to processing speed,” the researchers wrote in their report. “The higher performance in females may contribute to a classroom culture that favors females, not because of teacher bias(偏見)but because of inherent(與生俱來的)differences in gender processing speeds.”

The researchers found that males scored lower than females in all age groups in tests measuring processing speed. However, the study also found that males consistently outperformed females in some language abilities, such as identifying objects and knowing antonyms(反義詞)and synonyms(同義詞). The research contradicts the popular belief that girls develop all communication skills earlier than boys.

The researchers found no significant overall intelligence differences between males and females in any age groups.

“We believe there are fundamental differences in how male and female brains end up getting organized,” Camarata said, “Our next studies will give us some insight into where these processing differences are occurring.”

1.The new research referred to in the passage is intended to ________.

A. find whether age has something to do with people's intelligence

B. help teachers to assign work and arrange tests for students

C. find what's the differences between male and female brains

D. prove the differences in processing speed between males and females

2.The underlined word “outperformed” in the fifth paragraph probably means “________”.

A. to achieve better results than someone

B. to perform worse in some aspect than someone

C. to do something as well as someone

D. to be not so good at something as someone

3.People usually believe that ________.

A. there're hardly any differences between males' and females' overall intelligence

B. teachers favor girl students instead of boy students in schools

C. girls develop their language skills earlier than boys

D. females have a significant advantage over males in all subjects

4.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The researchers interviewed more than 8,000 males and females all over the world.

B. Generally speaking, males can do better jobs with strict time limits than females.

C. Females scored higher than males in any age groups in any situations.

D. The differences in gender processing speeds occur when people are born.

5.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

A. The researchers will continue to study how the gender differences in timing occur.

B. A female mathematician will make greater achievements than a male one.

C. School teachers have already known about these processing differences before.

D. If a girl has a higher processing speed than a boy, she must be more intelligent than him.

Answer 1