58.Which of the following is held by the opponents of the single-sex education?

A) Students in each class in most single-sex schools are fewer. B) Students in a single-sex school can't broaden their horizons.

C) Students perform badly by learning separately in their teen years.

D) Segregated learning will further deepen gender discrimination. 正确答案为 D 你选对了！

解析：

D)。第4段从单一性别教育批判者的角度，分析了单一性别教育的弊端。其中第2句指出，体系上的不平衡会加深性别上的偏见，D)项是对此意的正确表述。根据第3、4段可知，A)项是单一性别教育的推崇者支持单一性别教育的原因之一，B)项文中没有提到，C)项与文中“国际性调查显示，无论男学生还是女学生，在他们十几岁的时候分开接受教育，他们表现最好”不符。

59.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A) It's children themselves that know clearly about their condition.

B) Parents always like to make the decision for their children on their will. C) Single-sex education fosters ignorance and prejudice towards the other gender.

D) Some students prefer to larger classes for its competitive atmosphere.

正确答案为 A 你选对了！

解析：

A)。文中最后一段末句提到，应该由学生自己来决定选用哪种教育模式，由此可知，只有孩子对自己适合哪种教育模式的状况了解得最清楚，所以A)项符合文意，为正确答案。B)项属于过度推断；C)项文中并没有提及；D)项不是推断内容，而是文中的细节。

60.The author's attitude towards the single-sex education is ________.

A) positive

B) negative C) subjective

D) objective

正确答案为 D 你错选为 A！

解析：

D)。纵观全文，作者刚开始介绍了单一性别教育以及其流行的时间，普及的年级，产生的背景以及试行的地方；接着从推崇和批评单一性别教育两个方面具体介绍了双方的观点和态度；最后一段指出，孩子需要根据自身的情况来选择适合自己的学习环境。可见，作者对单一性别教育并没有过多地加入自己的评论和态度，只是从客观的角度进行说明，故D)项正确。

Attention couch potatoes: you may want to take this opportunity to curl up with your stack of remotes and commit to memory that feeling of pressing a button under your thumb. According to Chris Brown, vice president of the International Digital Media Alliance, \remote control as you know it is an endangered species.\

Companies are developing devices to keep up with our channel-surfing habits du jour (今日特色的), which means rethinking the structure of the remote. To cope with the abundance of channels now available, TiVo recently unveiled the Slide, a $90 device complete with a retractable QWERTY keyboard to eliminate the agonising \Shore marathon you would like to record.

The Slide isn't a universal remote, but it is certainly a step toward efficiency, using the kind of mini-keyboard popularised by Samsung and other mobile-phone makers. Vizio has released a similar remote for its line of HDTVs, and Boxee, a TV-to-Internet set-top connector, is set to ship with its own QWERTY remote this year.

As more consumers fall in love with the breezy usability of smart phones, some of us have stopped looking under couch cushions for dedicated remotes and instead are simply reaching into our pockets. Apps like RedEye (free for the iPhone and iPod Touch) and plug-ins like New Kinetix ($70) turn mobile devices into one-size-fits-all controlling devices — and yes, they will change the channel. Ident Technology already has a prototype (雏形) in the works for a button-free gesture remote — controlled by slides and taps of the thumb on a touchscreen surface — that will feel very familiar to iPhone users.

\remotes you'll buy in 10 years are all going to have a touchscreen,\says Brown. \won't be devices with buttons. You won't get that tactile (触觉的) sensation.\

With any luck, you won't get coffee-table pileups either. \five remotes for all of our devices,\Birmingham, Ala. \the DVD player and one for...Well, I'm not sure what it does.\remotes become more like smart phones, a simple download can make them control every new device you buy. Assuming, of course, you can figure out how to use them.

61.What message does the author intend to convey in the first paragraph? A) Couch potatoes shouldn't spend so much time watching screens.

B) Couch potatoes will hate the feeling of pressing buttons on remotes.

C) Remotes are going into a new era in terms of their structure and function.

D) A new device is invented to help couch potatoes stay away from screens.

正确答案为 C 你选对了！

解析：

C)。第1段主要是说电视迷们可以收起传统遥控器了，“你所了解的遥控器已经要濒临灭亡了。”接着第2段介绍了各个公司推出的新型遥控器。由此可知，第1段是为了说明，遥控器即将进入新的时代，故C)正确。

62.What is said about the new device \ A) It's very popular among couch potatoes.

B) It's more efficient than standard remotes.

C) It could record the programs people like. D) It could connect a TV set to the Internet.

正确答案为 B 你选对了！

解析：

B)。第3段提到Slide还并不通用，但是它确实是更高效了。由此可知B)是对原文的同义转述，故为答案。C)、D)不是Slide具有的功能。A)文中未提到。

63.The remotes Ident Technology may produce are akin to iPhone in the aspect that they __________. A) adopt the QWERTY keyboard B) consist of Blue Tooth devices C) can control several devices

D) can be used without pressing buttons 正确答案为 D 你选对了！

解析：

D)。第4段末说，Ident科技公司已经有了一款正在准备阶段的无键手势遥控器——通过拇指滑动或点击触屏控制——这对苹果手机用户来说会比较熟悉。原文中的that指代前面整句话的内容，也就是说这种遥控器可以像苹果手机一样使用时无需按键，故D)正确。A)不是这种遥控器和苹果手机的相似处。B)、C)原文没有提到。

64.Brie Cubelic could hope that in the future, remotes will ________.

A) make people's life more convenient

B) confuse people by different functions

C) be particularly popular among young people D) become smart and button-free devices