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A man enters a store to buy milk. He walks out of the store with milk. That is all―milk. At the same time a woman enters the same grocery store also to buy milk.

She buys it. But she also buys chicken and lemons to make dinner that night. Then she remembers to buy food for her son to eat at school. She also gets a bottle of wine for drinks with friends and a birthday card for her husband's niece.

And that is the difference between the female and male brains. It is simply explained in a grocery store.

Generally speaking men do one thing at a time. Women do many. Doing many things at a time is often called "multitasking " a very popular word these days.

A recent study has proved what we have known all along―men and women think differently. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania studied brain pictures of 949 people aged from 8to 22 years old. They found that male brains have more connections on one side of the brain. In the female brains they found more activity and connec?tions between the right and left sides of the brain. The left side of the brain is known as the side of "reason". The right one is known as the "creative" side.

Regina Verma is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She cowrote the report. She says when women are asked to do something difficult they might use different parts of the brain. Men she adds generally use just one side of the brain.

As a result men generally deal directly with a prob?lem. Women however might include other parts of the brain like the part connected with reason and the part connected with sensitivity (敏感) when solving a problem.'

Women take a less direct path to find a solution.

23. What's the writer's purpose of telling the story?

   A. To make readers happy.

   B. To advise readers to buy things.

   C. To introduce the topic of the text.

   D. To encourage readers to read the text.

24. How does the woman deal with a problem?

   A. Directly. B. Indirectly.

   C. Strongly. D. Carefully.

25. What's the main idea of the text?

   A. Men and women really think differently.

   B. Women use two sides of the brain to think.

   C. More people believe and support a familiar story.

   D. Men generally use one side of the brain to think.

26. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?

   A. There were 949 old people taking part in the re?search.

   B. The people taking part in the research were verj young.

   C. Male brains have more connections on right sick of the brain.

   D. Male brains have strong connections on both side; of the brain.

Answer 1

本文是一篇说明文。文章通过一个故事来引人文章的主题，并说明科学研究的结果证实男女在思考问题时的不同。23. C推理判断题。根据文中的"And that is the difference be?tween the female and male brains…"可知，这是文章的主题，因此讲故事的目的就是引人文章的主题，故选C项。24. B细节理解题。根据最后一段中的"Women take a less direct path to find a solution."可知，答案为B项。25. A主旨大意题。根据文中的"And that is the difference between the female and male brains…"可知 本文的中心意思是男人和女人在思考问题时的不同。故选A项。26. B推理判断题。根据第五段中的"…studied brain pictures of 949 people aged from 8 to 22 years old."可知，B项正确。