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VOCABULARY. Read the following sentences
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Read the following sentences. Circle the letter of the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the boldfaced words. If necessary, use a dictionary.
1. When you stop and think about your high school or college alma mater, were your experiences more positive or negative?
a. school one has attended briefly
b. school one has applied to
c. school one has graduated from
2. More and more Americans are electing to send their children to single-sex schools because they feel both boys and girls blossom when they study in the company of students of the same sex.
a. hesitating b. choosing c. neglecting
3. More and more Americans are electing to send their children to single-sex schools because they feel both boys and girls blossom when they study in the company of students of the same sex. They tend to achieve more.
a. compete b. interact c. develop
4. For example, Catholic families often sent their children to parochial schools.
a. integrated schools b. schools related to church c. schools for boys
5. Since U.S. public schools are, by law, coeducational and free, single-sex schooling was out of reach for most American families.
a. inaccessible b. illegal c. abnormal
6. Studies have shown that many girls get shortchanged in coed classrooms because teachers sometimes pay more attention to boys.
a. laughed at b. hurt c. cheated
7. Girls' positive, exuberant attitude toward their studies tends to disappear as they begin to feel less successful.
a. serious b. powerful c. enthusiastic
8. Moreover, adolescence is such a fragile time for girls. As they experience adolescent changes, some girls become depressed, develop an addiction, or suffer from an obsession with weight.
a. difficult b. delicate c.demanding
9. In the early 1990s, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) concluded that being in single-sex classes could raise a girl's self-esteem.
a. intelligence b. confidence c. awareness
10. The renewed interest in single-sex schooling has fostered a controversy among Americans.
a. brought back again b. remembered c. repeated
11. The renewed interest in single-sex schooling has fostered a controversy among Americans.
a. nurtured b. discouraged c. delayed
12. Those who give it full endorsement believe girls need an all-female environment to take risks and find their own voices.
a. approval b. criticism c. understanding
13. Those who question the validity of single-sex schooling wonder whether students' lack of achievement warrants returning to an educational system that divides the sexes.
a. equals b. requires c. justifies
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