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Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex. How w

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问题     Imagine being asked to spend twelve or so years of your life in a society which consisted only of members of your own sex. How would you react? Unless there was something definitely wrong with you, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to say the least. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that so many parents in the world choose to impose such abnormal conditions on their children—conditions which they themselves wouldn’t put up with for one minute!
    Any discussion of this topic is bound to question the aims of education. Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is far from being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of education is to equip future citizens with all they require to take their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school possibly offer the right sort of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a shock.
    A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a true version of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the opportunity to get to know each other, to learn to live together from their earliest years. They are put in a position where they can compare themselves with each other in terms of academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extra-curricular activities which are part of school life. What a practical advantage it is (to give just a small example) to be able to put on a school play in which the male parts will be taken by boys and the female parts by girls! What nonsense, boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart. Rivalry between the sexes is fostered. In a co-educational school, everything falls into its proper place.
    But perhaps the greatest contribution of co-education is the healthy attitude to life it encourages. Boys don’t grow up believing that women are mysterious creatures—airy goddesses, more like book-illustrations to a fairy-tale, than human beings. Girls don’t grow up imagining that men axe romantic heroes. Years of living together at school dispel illusions of this kind. There axe no goddesses with freckles, pigtails, piercing voices and inky fingers. There are no romantic heroes with knobby knees, dirty fingernails and unkempt hair. The awkward stage of adolescence brings into sharp focus some of the physical and emotional problems involved in growing up. These can better be overcome in a coeducational environment. Segregated schools sometimes provide the right conditions for sexual deviation. This is hardly possible under a co-educational system. When the time comes for the pupils to leave school, they are fully prepared to enter society as well-adjusted adults. They have already had years of experience in coping with many of the problems that face men and women.
选项 A、Only co-education can be in harmony with society.
B、People Are in Great Need of Co-education.
C、Any form of Education Other Than Co-education Is Simply Unthinkable
D、Co-education Has Many Features.
答案C
解析 主旨题。题意为："本文的最佳标题是______"。文章首句中，作者问"设想你在一个只有像你一样性别的人存在的社会里生活12年左右，你会有怎样的反应?除非你确实有问题，否则你至少不会太高兴。因此，世界上有那么多的父母选择这种反常的环境(他们自己一分钟都受不了的环境)强加给孩子，太令人惊讶了!合校有许多优点，突出主题。故选项"除了男女合校，其它形式的教育简直难以想象"为正确答案。选项"只有合校才能和社会相协调"，"人们非常需要合校"，"合校有许多特点"都不是文章的主旨。
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