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课时作业6 eq \a\vs4\al(Ⅰ) 单句语法填空 1．This time next day they ____________(sit) in the cinema. 答案：will be sitting 2．All the wonderful birds can ____________(find) in our Bird Park. 答案：be found 3．I ____________(give) ten minutes to decide whether I should accept the offer. 答案：was given 4．What you said ____________(sound) a bit reasonable. 答案：sounded 5．The question that the teacher raised was difficult for me ____________(answer)． 答案：to answer 6．When you finish the report, I ____________(wait) for about 3 hours. 答案：will have waited 7．Great as Newton was, many of his ideas ____________(challenge) today and are being modified by the work of scientists of our time. 答案：have been challenged 8．We ____________(work) on this project for over a month now. 答案：have been working 9．The old man ____________(sit) on a bench in the quiet park and look at others for hours without doing anything or talking to anybody. 答案：would sit 10．The question is not worth ____________(discuss) again and again. 答案：discussing eq \a\vs4\al(Ⅱ) 阅读理解 A Around the world，girls do better than boys at school.These are the findings of a recent study that looked at the test results of 1.5 million 15-year-olds in 74 regions across the globe.The level of gender equality in those regions made no difference to the results.Other factors, such as the income level of the region also had little impact on the findings.In only three regions—Colombia, Costa Rica and the Indian state Himachal Pradesh—was the trend reversed with boys doing better. So what are the causes of girls’ stronger performance？In the UK，girls outperform boys in exams that are taken at the age of 15 or 16，called GCSEs.According to education expert Ian Toone，this is down to the way girls and boys are brought up.“Boys are encouraged to be more active from an early age，while the restless movements of baby girls are pacified...Therefore，girls develop the skill of sitting still for longer periods of time, which is useful for academic pursuits like studying for