高级口译2008年9月真题(附加答案).doc

Exercise 4 (08’9) Listening Part: 【Spot Dictation】 When you stop and think about your high school or college alma mater, were your experiences more positive or negative? Do your feelings of ________________________(1) in that school have anything to do with whether or not your school was single-sex or coed?_____________________(2) to send their children to single-sex schools, because they feel both ________________________(3) when they study in the company of students of the same sex. They ________________________ (4). For years, only parents who could afford to send their children to private schools or who had__________________________ (5) chose single-sex education for their children. Single-sex schooling was________________________(6) for most American families. Today, however, along with ________________________ (7), public schools are experimenting with the idea of ________________________ (8). Girls may be the ones who benefit most from single-sex schooling. Studies have shown that ________________________ (9)in coed classrooms because teachers sometimes pay more attention to boys. Girls ________________________(10)toward their studies tends to disappear as they began to feel less successful. They start to ________________________ (11) outperform them in math and science. As boys ________________________ (12), girls start to lose it. Moreover, adolescence is________________________(13) for girls. As they experience adolescent changes some girls become depressed, develop an addiction or suffer from ________________________ (14). In the early 1990s, some influential people said that being in single-sex classes could ________________________ (15). Schools across the country began creating single-sex classrooms and schools but many critics claim that ________________________ (16) may actually be detrimental to a girls education, because they ________________________(17) of sex differences. The renewed interest in single-sex schooling________________