Directions:In this section, you will hear
a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you
should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for
the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43
with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you
are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can
either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in
your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should
check what you have written.
Imagine being asked to spend twelve years in a school which
consists only of members of your own sex. How would you (36)
Unless there was something (37) wrong with you,
you wouldn’t be too happy about it. Any discussion of this topic
is (38) to question the aims of education. (39)
children’s heads full of knowledge is far from being (40)
. One of the chief aims of education is to (41)
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 (42) for it
A co-educational school offers children nothing less than a true
(43) 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. (44) in terms of academic ability, athletic
achievement and many of the extra-curricular activities which are part of school
life. (45) . Boys don’t grow up believing
that women are mysterious creatures. Girls don’t grow up imagining that
men are romantic heroes. (46) . They have already had years
of experience in coping with many of the problems that face men and women.