Cloze Test It is well known that teenage boys tend to do better 1 math than girls, that male nigh school students are more likely than their female counterparts 2 advanced math courses like calculus, that virtually all the great mathematicians 3 men. Are women born with 4 mathematical ability? Or does society's sexism slow their progress? In 1980, two Johns Hopkins University researchers tried 5 the eternal nature/nurture debate. Julian Stanley and Camilla Ben bow 6 10,000 talented seventh and eighth-graders between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test, in which math questions 7 to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discovered 8 sex differences. 9 the verbal abilities of the males and females 10 differed, 11 girls scored over 500 (on a scale of 200 to 800) 12 mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 to 1. The conclusion: males have 13 superior mathematical reasoning ability. Benbow and Stanley's findings, 14 were published in Science, disturbed some men and 15 women. Now there is 16 for those people in a new study from the University of Chicago that suggests math 17 not, after all, a natural male domain. Prof Zalman Usiskin studied 1,366 tenth graders. They were selected from 18 classes and tested on their ability to solve geometry proofs, a subject requiring 19 abstract reasoning and spatial ability. The conclusion 20 by Usiskin: there are no sex differences in math ability.
1.
A.at
B.to
C.of
D.about
A B C D
A
[解析] 此处考查固定搭配，表示在哪方面擅长用be good at，此处用了比较级better at，故答案为A项。
[参考译文] 众所周知，在青少年时期，男孩的数学成绩总比女孩好，到了高中阶段，男生比女生更擅长应付像微积分这样的高等数学课程。而事实上，那些伟大的数学家几乎都是男性。难道女性的数学才能天生就弱于男性吗?或者是社会上的性别歧视阻碍了女性在这一领域的发展?在1980年，约翰·霍普金斯大学的两名研究人员——朱利安·斯坦利和卡米拉·本博着手尝试平息这场关于先天/后天培养的无休止争论。她们在1972至1978年，给1万名七至八年级的优秀学生做了学习能力评估测试，其中的数学题量旨在考查学生的能力而非知识面。通过测试，她们发现男、女生有显著的差异。在语言能力上，男女差异并不明显，但在数学能力方面，男生明显优于女生。测试中，在数学能力方面，得分在500分以上(得分范围200—800分)的男生是女生的两倍，而在高于700分的人群中，男女生比例拉大到了14:1。由此得出结论：男性天生比女性拥有更优秀的数学推理能力。
本博和斯坦利的这些发现发表在美国《科学》杂志，引起了一些男性以及很从女性的不安。现在，芝加哥大学一项新的研究给这些人带来了安慰。芝加哥大学的研究指出，数学不是天然就属于男性的领域。扎尔曼·尤西斯金教授在几何课上挑选了1366名学生进行研究，他测试了他们的几何证明能力。而几何是一门要求学生既要拥有抽象推理又要有空间想象能力的课程。尤西斯金教得出。结论：在数学能力方面，并不存在性别差异。
2.
A.in tackling
B.tackling
C.to tackle
D.about tackling
A B C D
C
[解析] 空格前的are more likely提示此处为be likely to do sth. 的结构，故选C项。
Enter the information age. Information is the raw material for many of the business activities shaping this new era. 21 iron and steel were the basic commodities in the dawning of the industrial age. The world's knowledge is said to be doubling every eight years. This knowledge 22 is stimulating economic progress. The need to collect, analyze, and communicate large quantities of information is spawning new products and services, creating jobs, and 23 career opportunities. The information age is generally considered to be a phenomenon of the service 24 of the economy, 25 a product of heavy industry. Certainly, 26 information technologies are creating new capabilities in knowledge-based service spheres. But changes just as dramatic are 27 industry, giving people the opportunity to do challenging work in exciting new ways. Manufacturing is a full 28 in the information age. From 29 to production, the manufacturing process has long been information intensive. It always has required exacting communication to describe what goes into products and 30 to make them. Now, computer technology is giving factory managers new capability to gather all of this information and use it to control production. Telecommunication is producing error-free communication between the design office and the factory, computer-aided design is enabling engineers to evaluate product 31 and manufacturing processes 32 video displays, before 33 are committed to build and test 34 . Techniques like these are bringing about new advances in manufacturing productivity. Just as coal fueled the transformation to an industrial society, 35 microelectronics powering the rise of the information age. Microelectronic information management tools are strengthening U.S. industrial 36 , 37 remains vital to America's economic well-being and national security. More and more manufacturing companies are 38 that the wise of information can give them a competitive 39 . As companies emphasize powerful information management, talented people will continue to find ways to make factories and mills with increased 40 .
21.
A.As soon as
B.As long as
C.Just as
D.As much as
A B C D
C
[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：连词。A选项As soon as一……就……；B选项As long as只要，在……的时候；C选项Just as正像；D选项As much as差不多。分析上下文逻辑关系，该空前后逻辑上是一致的概念，为比较关系，just as符合题意。意思是：信息是这个时代很多商业活动的原材料。同样，钢铁是工业时代的基本商品。
[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：对应成分分析——and对应+动词。spawning new products and services, creating jobs，应该和______ career opportunities在内容上保持一致。所以应该是增加了就业机会。A选项enlarging扩大；B选项stimulating刺激；C选项strengthening加固；D选项widening加宽，扩展。表达就业机会的扩大应该使用动词widen。
[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：连词+逻辑辨析。两个相同的名词的连接，典型的考查连词，需要分析两者之间的逻辑关系。other than意为“除了……，除……之外”，如：There's nobody here other than me. 除了我这里没别人。better than意为“比……好”。rather than意为“而不是，宁愿”，如：He resigned rather than take part in such a dishonest transaction他宁愿辞职也不愿意参加这样一种欺骗的交易。more than意为“多于”。此句意思为：信息时代一般被认为是服务业的现象，而不是重工业的产品。
[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：对应成分分析+名词辨析。from A to B结构，说明A、B两者是并列的关系，所以答案应该和production是同一类型的事物。design意为“设计”；plan意为“计划”，schedule意为“时刻表，进度表，预计计划”，sale意为“销售”，根据对应关系和逻辑关系，design最符合题意，译为“从设计到生产”。
30.
A.what
B.who
C.how
D.when
A B C D
C
[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：对应成分分析——and对应。what goes into products应该和______ to make them具有相同性质，含义相同或者相近。此处指如何制造它们，how符合题意。
[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：名词辨析。capability意为“能力，才能，才干”，如：The boy has great capabilities in long distance running. 这男孩有很大的长距离赛跑的潜能。capacity意为“容量，生产量，能力，接受力”，如：That bowl has a capacity of two pints.那只碗的容量有两品脱。competency意为“能力”，如：communicative competency交际能力。potential意为“潜力”，如：He has the potential to do the work well. 他有潜力做好这个工作。此处指美国工业的生产量。
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