ª¤D) One in seven chance of getting some sort of disease swimming in the sea.

ª¤23. The word ¡°sewage¡±refer to ____.

ª¤A) poison ª¤

C) liquid material

ª¤B) waste ª¤

D) solid material

ª¤24. Why does industry do much damage to the sea?

ª¤A) Because most factories have proper wasteª²treatment plants.

ª¤B) Because many factories have not proper wasteª²treatment plants

even the most modern one.

ª¤C) Because just the modern factory has a waste treatment plant.

ª¤D) Because neither ordinary factories nor most modern ones have p

roper wasteª²treatment plants.

ª¤25. What is the passage mainly about?

ª¤A) Save the world.

ª¤B) How the people live in the Mediterranean sea.

ª¤C) How the industry dangers the sea.

ª¤D) Beware the dirty sea.

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:

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THE CLASSROOM is a man's world, where boys get twoª²thirds of the teachers'

attention ¡ª even when they are in a minority¡ª taunt (ÈèÂî) the girls without

punishment, and receive praise for sloppy work that would not be tolerated from

girls. They are accustomed to being teachers' pets, and if girls get anything like equal treatment, they will protest eagerly and even wreck lessons.

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These claims are made in a book out this week, written by Dale Spender, a

lecturer at the London University Institute of Education. She argues that disc

rimination against girls is so deeply in coª²educational schools that single sex classes are the only answer.

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Her case is based on tapeª²recordings of her own and other teachers' lessons. Many of them, like Spender, had deliberately set out to give girls a fair chance. ¡°Sometimes,¡± says Spender, ¡°I have even thought I have gone too far and

have spent more time with the girls than the boys.¡±

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The tapes proved otherwise. In 10 taped lessons (in secondary school

and college), Spender never gave the girls more than 42 per cent of her attention (the average was 38 percent) and never gave the boys less than 58 percent. There were similar results for other teachers, both male and female.

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In other words, when teachers give girls more than a third of their time,

they feel that they are cheating the boys of their rightful share. And so

do the boys themselves. ¡°She always asks the girls all the questions,¡± said

one boy in a classroom where 34 per cent of the teachers' time was allocate

d to girls. ¡°She doesn't like boys, and just listens to the girls.¡± said a boy

in another class, where his sex got 63 per cent of teacher attention.

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Boys regarded twoª²thirds of the teacher's time as a fair deal ¡ª and when

they got less they caused trouble in class and even complained to higher authority. ¡°It's important to keep their attention,¡± said one teacher, ¡°Otherwise,

they play you up something awful.¡±

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Spender concludes that, in mixed classes, if the girls are as boisterous and pushy as the boys, they are considered ¡°unladylike¡±, if they are docile