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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 12月英语四级考试真题解析3 英语四级考试真题：2016年12月英语四级考试真题解析3 英语四级考试精品课程  PartⅢ  Reading Comprehension  (40 minutes)  Section A  Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. Youare required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in aword bank following the passage. Read thepassage through carefully beforemaking your choices.Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter. Pleasemark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre. You may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.  Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.  Many men and women have long bought into the idea that there aremale and female brains,believing that explains justabout every difference between the sexes. A new study26that belief,questioningwhether brains really can be distinguished by gender.  In the study, Tel Aviv University researchers27for sex differencesthroughout the entirehuman brain.  And what did they find? Not much. Rather than offer evidencefor28brains as male orfemale, research shows thatbrains fall into a wide range, with most people falling right in themiddle.  Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that whilethere are some gender-based29, many different types of brain cant always bedistinguished by gender.  While the average male and average femalebrains were30different, you couldnt tell itby looking at individual brainscans. Only a small31of people had all-male orall-femalecharacteristics.  Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist (神经科学家), saidthe study is an important addition toa growing body of researchquestioning32beliefs about gender and brain function. But hecautioned againstconcluding from this study that all brains are the same,33of gender.  Theres a mountain of evidence34the importance of sexinfluences at all levels of brainfunction, he told The Seatt