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  3. 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

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 (1)_____? Unless there was (2)_____ definitely wrong with you, you wouldn’t be too happy about it, to (3)_____  the least. It is all the (4)_____ surprising therefore that so many parents in the world choose to impose such (5)_____ conditions (6)_____ their children—conditions which they themselves wouldn’t put up with for one minute!
    Any discussion of this topic is (7)_____ to question the aims of education. Stuffing children’s heads full of knowledge is (8)_____ being foremost among them. One of the chief aims of education is to (9)_____ future citizens with all they require to (10)_____ their place in adult society. Now adult society is made up of men and women, so how can a segregated school (11)_____ offer the right kind of preparation for it? Anyone entering adult society after years of segregation can only be in for a (12)_____.
    A co-educational school offers children nothing (13)_____ a true (14)_____ of society in miniature. Boys and girls are given the (15)_____ 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 them selves with each other (16)_____ academic ability, athletic achievement and many of the extracurricular activities which are (17)_____ of school life. What a (18)_____ advantage it is (to give just an 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 (19)_____ co-education makes of the argument that boys are cleverer than girls or vice-versa. When segregated, boys and girls are made to feel that they are a race apart. (20)_____ between the sexes is fostered. In a co-educational school, everything falls into its proper place.

选项 A、wisdom
B、nonsense
C、bias
D、significance
答案B
解析 无意义的事；荒谬。根据文章的意思及作者的态度："从男女合班教育可以看出(对于同性教育的学校里)男孩比女孩聪明或女孩比男孩聪明的争论多么荒谬啊！"所以选择"nonsense"。而选项"智慧，明智；名言，格言"，"偏见，偏心，偏袒"，"意义；价值；重要性"均不符合题意。
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