单选题What is the author's attitude towards people's superstitious beliefs?
A．He is mildly critica
B．He is strongly critica
C．He is in favour of the
D．His attitude is not clea
【定位】最后一段。
【解析】态度题。文章的人部分是以客观的口吻介绍数字迷信的来源和表现形式，没有一点显露出作者的意图，但存最后一段作者说“...which just shows how irrational we are in our superstitious beliefs．”可见作者本人也认为迷信是没有理性、不可信的，但通篇口吻不强烈。因此可见作者立场是明确的，但不激烈，应选A。
【点腈】态度题，需把握整篇文章的基调和理解作者的口吻．特别要注意有转折意义的段落或句子。本文最后一段“Yet oddly enough”就明显表示意思上的转折，故需特别留意，这是作者体现立场的重要段落。
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Women's minds work differently from men's. At least, that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter of frustration or a joke. Now the biologists have moved into this minefield, and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women. But being different, they point out hurriedly, is not the same as being better or worse.
There is, however, a definite structural variation between the male and female brain. The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes--the link between the two halves of the brain.
The two halves are linked by a trunkline of between 200 and 300 million nerves, the corpus callosum. Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibres than it is in men. This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance. The question is "What"? and this difference exists, are there others? Research shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men. Are some of these differences biological and inborn, a result of evolution? We tend to think that it is the influence of society that produces these differences. But could we be wrong?
Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions, and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people, the left half is used for word handling, analytical and logical activities; the right half works on pictures, patters and forms. We need both halves working together. And the better the connections, the more harmoniously the two halves work. And, according to research findings, women have the better connections.
But it isn't all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis. In Schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at "language subjects" and boys better at moths and physics. If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunk line, there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.
We shan't know for a while, partly because we don't know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subjects and the functioning of the two halves of the brain, and we cannot understand bow the two halves interact via the corpus callosum. But this striking difference must have some effect and, because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intellect, we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
A．Biologists are conducting research where psychologists have given u
B．Brain differences point to superiority of one sex over the othe
C．Results of scientific research fail to support popular belie
D．The structural
