浙江省普通高中2023-2024学年高三8月尖子生深研模拟(高三英语首考专用)完形填空词汇拓展练习

浙江省普通高中2023年8月尖子生深研模拟(高三英语首考专用)完型填空词汇拓展练习 第一部分、完型填空(共15小题; 每小题1分, 满分15分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Girls are better at reading and writing than boys as early as fourth grade, according to a study, and the gap continues to widen until senior year. Scientists generally agree that boys and girls are psychologically more alike than they are different. But reading seems to be a(n) __21__, with growing evidence suggesting a similar __22__ in writing. The study, published in the journal American Psychologist, provided further __23__ to support this view. David Reilly lead author of the study, said the study __24__the commonly held view that boys and girls start grade school with the same cognitive abilities. “It appears that the gender gap for writing tasks has been greatly __25__, and despite our best efforts with changes in teaching methods, that does not appear to be__26__over time,” he said. Factors explaining the results could include learning __27__ being more prevalent among boys; the pressure to conform to masculine ideals and the idea of reading and language being __28__; and slight differences in how boys and girls use their brain hemispheres (半球), the authors believe. To investigate how __29__levels differed between boys and girls in the U.S., the team studied data collected over three decades in the National Assessment of Educational Progress. This database of test scores on over 3 million students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades __30__ national and state performances in a range of subjects, and considered such variables such as disabilities or whether children were English learners. Reading and writing was __31__ according to children's understanding of a range of different passages and genres. __32__, girls were found to perform significantly better in reading and writing tests by fourth grade when compared with boys of the same age. As children progressed to eighth and twelfth grades, girls continued to __33__ boys