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关于趋势的经典描写 In his preface to the new 99report  HYPERLINK /top/reference/timestopics/people/g/dana_gioia/index.html?inline=nyt-per \o More articles about Dana Gioia. Dana Gioia, chairman of the endowment, described the data as “simple, consistent and alarming.” Among the findings is that although reading scores among elementary school students have been improving, scores are flat among middle school students and slightly declining among high school seniors. These trends are concurrent with a falloff in daily pleasure reading among young people as they progress from elementary to high school, a drop that appears to continue once they enter college. The data also showed that students who read for fun nearly every day performed better on reading tests than those who reported reading never or hardly at all. ××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××× Math = Teens Favorite School Subject by Heather Mason Kiefer, Contributing Editor Math continues its reign this year as the top choice for U.S. teens favorite subject in school. In a recent Gallup Youth Survey*, nearly a quarter (23%) of 13- to 17-year-olds say math is their favorite subject, essentially the same percentage who said so last year. English/Literature places a distant second at 13% in the 2004 survey, statistically tied with science (12%). Other popular subjects include history (7%), physical education (5%), and industrial arts/shop (5%). Girls, Boys Display Equal Enthusiasm Toward Math For decades, girls math and science scores have lagged behind boys, but recent studies and proficiency assessments indicate that girls are gaining ground. Interestingly, approximately the same percentages of girls and boys in the 2004 survey say math is their favorite subject (24% of boys, 22% of girls), and 12% of both boys and girls say science. However, girls are far more likely to name English/literature as their favorite subject than boys are -- 22% vs. 5%. Boys are more likely than girls to say phys ed or industrial arts/shop