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2008年9月上海英语高级口译第一阶段考试 SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes) Part A: Spot Dictation Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.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 actu