2016天津市高考英语一轮阅读理解专题选练及参考答案9.docVIP

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Three years ago, the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, got into trouble for questioning women’s“intrinsic (内在的)aptitude (能力)”for science and engineering. Recently, a study paid for by America’s National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests. Although boys in high school performed better than girls in math 20 years ago, the researchers found that is no longer the case. The reason, they said, is simple: Girls used to take fewer advanced math courses than boys, but now they are taking just as ma