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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: At a primary school in a small town in the east of South Carolina, second-grade teachers Garneau and Lynne are convinced that separating elementary-age boys and girls produces immediate academic improvement in both genders . David Chadwell, South Carolina's expert of single gender education says, "Boys and girls learn, hear and respond to their surroundings differently.We can teach boys and girls based on what we now know." Male and female eyes are not organized in the same way, he explains.The organization of the male eye makes it sensitive to motion and direction."Boys understand the world as objects moving through space," he says. The male eye is also drawn to cooler colors like silver and black.It's no accident that boys tend to create pictures of moving objects instead of drawing the happy colorful family, like girls do in their class. The female eye, on the other hand, is drawn to warmer colors like red, yellow and orange.To attract girls, Chadwell says, the teacher doesn't need to move as much as in boy's class.Using descriptive phrases and lots of colors in presentations or on the blackboard gets their attention. Boys and girls also hear differently."When someone speaks in a loud tone, girls understand it as yelling," Chadwell says."They think you're mad and can shut down." Girls are more sensitive to sounds.He advises girls' teachers to watch the tone of their voices.Boys' teachers should sound more forceful, even excited. A boy's nervous system causes him to be more cautious when he is standing, moving, and the room temperature is around 69 degrees Fahrenheit.Stress in boys, he says, tends to increase blood flow to their brains, a process that helps them stay focused.Girls are more focused when seated in a warmer room around 75 degrees Fahrenheit.Girls also respond to stress differently.When exposed to threat and conflict, blood goes to their guts , leaving them feeling nervous or anxious. These differences can be applied in the classroom, Chadwell adds."Single gender programs are about making the... Question: To engage boy in a class, the teacher _ . - must have a moving object in this hand - needs to wear clothes in warm color - has to speak politely - had better move constantly while teaching
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had better move constantly while teaching

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Focus on class SOME US parents are sad that their high school children score badly in math , science and reading compared to kids in other countries. There has been an endless series of mostly fruitless education reforms to address this gap ( ). Now comes an approach based on the insights of a group of US exchange students. They spent a year in some of the most successful high schools in the world -in Finland, Poland and South Korea. Author and journalist Amanda Ripley followed three exchange students for her new book, The Smartest Kids in the World - and How They Got That Way. She argues that to improve academics, US schools should de-emphasize sports. Instead, students should bring their passion and intensity to academics , she concludes. "High school in Finland, Korea and Poland had a purpose, just like high school football practice in America," she writes. "There was a big , important contest at the end, and the score counted." Sports are a distraction ,Ripley argues, and most countries require them to take place outside of school. Trading in US school sports culture would be a huge change for people in the US , who respect teamwork and sportsmanship as training for life. But playing down sports could pay off, as it has elsewhere, if we redirect money , focus and glory to learning. Ripley is critical of memorization in South Korean education, but she praises the system's high goals and the free-dom its students have to fail and recover through hard work. Too often , we don't ask teachers to give our kids harder assignments -and we're quick to complain about a failing grade. What's working elsewhere is to set ambitious goals for kids ,and then allow them to discover that they have it within themselves to reclaim success from failure. Each of the countries in Smartest Kids came to education reform after an economic crisis . Finland was losing jobs after graduating just 10 percent of its teens from high school in the 1950s. Today , the graduation rate is 95 percent... Question: What is the author's attitude toward education reform in US high schools ? - Indifferent. - Puzzled - Satisfied - Supportive.
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Supportive.

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Read the following article and select the best answer. Article: Flying over a desert area in an airplane, two scientists looked down with trained eyes at trees and bushes. After an hour's flight one of the scientists wrote in his book, "Look here for probable metal." Walking across hilly ground, four scientists reported, "This ground should be searched for metals." From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word "Uranium." None of the scientists had X-ray eyes: they had no magic powers for looking down below the earth's surface. They were merely putting to use one of the newest methods of locating minerals in the ground---using trees and plants as signs that certain minerals may lie beneath the ground on which the trees and plants are growing. This newest method of searching for minerals is based on the fact that minerals deep in the earth may affect the kind of bushes and trees that grow on the surface. At Watson Bar Creek, a mineral search group gathered bags of tree seeds. Boxes were filled with small branches from the trees. Roots were dug and put into boxes. Each bag and box was carefully marked. In a scientific laboratory the parts of the forest trees were burned to ashes and tested. Each small part was examined to learn whether there were minerals in it. Study of the roots, branches, and seeds showed no silver. But there were small amounts of gold in the roots and a little less gold in the branches and seeds. The seeds growing nearest to the tree trunk had more gold than those growing on the ends of the branches. If the trees had not indicated that there was gold in the ground, the scientists would not have spent money to pay for digging into the ground. They did dig and found more gold below. They dug deeper. They found large quantities of gold. Question: The scientists were searching for minerals by using _ . - X-rays - trained eyes - a special instrument - magic power
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trained eyes