高级口译0809听力原文汇总合集（1）

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　　高级口译0809听力原文汇总合集（1）

　　Section 1:LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)
　　
　　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 ward or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in you 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 success or failure in that school have anything to do with whether or not your school was single-sex or coed? More and more Americans are electing to send their children to single-sex schools, because they feel both boys and girls blossom when they study in the company of students of the same sex. They tend to achieve more.
　　
　　For years, only parents who could afford to send their children to private schools or who had strong religious or cultural reasons chose single-sex education for their children. Single-sex schooling was out of reach for most American families. Today, however, along with costly private schools, public schools are experimenting with the idea of separating the sexes.
　　
　　Girls may be the ones who benefit most from single-sex schooling. Studies have shown that many girls get short-changed in coed classrooms because teachers sometimes pay more attention to boys. Girls' positive exuberate attitude toward their studies tends to disappear as they began to feel less successful. They start to watch their male peers outperform them in math and science. As boys begin to gain confidence, girls start to lose it. Moreover, adolescence is such a fragile time for girls. As they experience adolescent changes some girls become depressed, develop an addiction or suffer from an obsession with weight.
　　
　　In the early 1990s, some influential people said that being in single-sex classes could raise a girl's self-esteem. Schools across the country began creating single-sex classrooms and schools but many critics claim that all female schools may actually be detrimental to a girls' education, because they reinforce the regressive notion of sex differences.
　　
　　The renewed interest in single-sex schooling has fostered a controversy among Americans. Those who give it full endorsement believe girls need an all-female environment to take risks and find their own voices. Those who question the validity of single-sex schooling wonder whether students' lack of achievement warrants returning to an educational system that divides the sexes. They believe there is no such thing as separate but equal.
　　
　　1. success of failure
　　
　　2. more and more Americans are electing
　　
　　3. boys of girls blossom
　　
　　4. tend to achieve more
　　
　　5. strong religious or cultural reasons
　　
　　6. out of reach
　　
　　7. costly private school
　　
　　8. separating the sexes
　　
　　9. many girls get short change
　　
　　10. positive exuberant attitude
　　
　　11. watch their male peers
　　
　　12. begin to gain confidence
　　
　　13. such a fragile time
　　
　　14. an obsession with weight
　　
　　15. raise a girl's self-esteem
　　
　　16. all female schools
　　
　　17. reinforce the regressive notion
　　
　　18. has fostered a controversy
　　
　　19. question the validity
　　
　　20. such thing as separate by equal