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A father’s relationship to his child’s current and future academic success and the level of his or her development in academic potential and scholastic achievement are both factors with some rather interesting implications that educators are beginning to study and appraise. As a matter of fact, "life with father", has been discovered to be a very important factor in determining a child’s progress or lack of progress in school.
A recent survey of over 16,000’ children made by the National Child Development Study in London, England, revealed that children whose fathers came to school conferences and accompanied their children on outings did measurably better in school than did those children x, hose fathers were not involved in these activities. The study, which monitored children born during a weekMarch, 1958, from the time of their birth through the years of their early schooling, further revealed that the children of actively involved fathers scored as much as seven months higher in reading and maths than did those children whose only involved parent was the mother. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the role played by fathers in the raising of a child. It indicated a much higher level of parental involvement by the father than had beenanticipated. Over 66% of the fathers were said to have played a major role in parentalresponsibility.
The study also suggested that the greatest level of parental parenting took place in thefamilies of only children. As the number of children and financial obligations increased, the father’s apparent interest and involvement with thechildren decreased. Hlowever, no matter what the size of financial condition of the family, a father’s active participation in the child’sdevelopment made great difference in the children’s progress.
The study further revealed that while the frequency of overnight absences reflected a corresponding deficiency of the child’s level in maths and reading, a father’s employment on late shifts appeared to have little effect on the child’s academic progress. The data from the study was obtained primarily through interviews with parents, teachers and physicians. The information evaluating the level of the father’s parenting performance was elicited primarily fromtheadmittedly subjective observations of their wives.

Children who generally tended to progress academically were（）

A:those whose mothers gave them more affection B:children who had been given a balanced diet C:those whose fathers worked the night shift D:those who had no brothers or- sisters

A father’s relationship to his child’s current and future academic success and the level of his or her development in academic potential and scholastic achievement are both factors with some rather interesting implications that educators are beginning to study and appraise. As a matter of fact, "life with father", has been discovered to be a very important factor in determining a child’s progress or lack of progress in school.
A recent survey of over 16,000’ children made by the National Child Development Study in London, England, revealed that children whose fathers came to school conferences and accompanied their children on outings did measurably better in school than did those children x, hose fathers were not involved in these activities. The study, which monitored children born during a weekMarch, 1958, from the time of their birth through the years of their early schooling, further revealed that the children of actively involved fathers scored as much as seven months higher in reading and maths than did those children whose only involved parent was the mother. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the role played by fathers in the raising of a child. It indicated a much higher level of parental involvement by the father than had beenanticipated. Over 66% of the fathers were said to have played a major role in parentalresponsibility.
The study also suggested that the greatest level of parental parenting took place in thefamilies of only children. As the number of children and financial obligations increased, the father’s apparent interest and involvement with thechildren decreased. Hlowever, no matter what the size of financial condition of the family, a father’s active participation in the child’sdevelopment made great difference in the children’s progress.
The study further revealed that while the frequency of overnight absences reflected a corresponding deficiency of the child’s level in maths and reading, a father’s employment on late shifts appeared to have little effect on the child’s academic progress. The data from the study was obtained primarily through interviews with parents, teachers and physicians. The information evaluating the level of the father’s parenting performance was elicited primarily fromtheadmittedly subjective observations of their wives.

Children who generally tended to progress academically were（）

A:those whose mothers gave them more affection B:children who had been given a balanced diet C:those whose fathers worked the night shift D:those who had no brothers or- sisters

(Research shows) that employees (whose) obtain (satisfaction) from their jobs are more (productive).（　）

A:Research shows B:whose C:satisfaction D:productive

Whose ______ is it to answer the question this time

A:time B:position C:duty D:turn

Whose（） is it to answer the question this time

A:time B:position C:duty D:turn

Science and Truth
"FINAGLE" is not a word that most people associate with science. One reason is that the image of the scientist is of one who always collects data in an impartial (51) for truth. In any debate - over intelligence, schooling, energy-the (51) "science says" usually disarms opposition.
But scientists have long acknowledged the existence of a "finagle factor"—a tendency by many scientists to give a helpful change to the data to (53) desired results. The latest of the finagle factor in action comes from Stephen Jay Gould, a Harvard biologist, (54) has examined the important 19th century work of Dr. Samuel George Morton. Morton was famous in his time (55) analysing the brain size of the skulls as a measure of intelligence. He concluded that whites had the (56) brains, that the brains of Indians and Blacks were smaller, and therefore, that whites constitute a superior race.
Gould went back to Morton’s original data and concluded that the (57) were an example of the finagle at work. He found that Morton’s "discovery" was made by leaving out embarrassing data, using incorrect procedures, making simple arithmetical (58) (always in his favour) and changing his criteria-again, always in favour of his argument. Morton has been thoroughly discredited by now and scientists do not believe that brain size reflects (59) .
But Gould went on to say Morton’s story is only an example of a common problem in (60) work. Some of the leading figures in science are believed to have (61) the finagle factor. Gould says that Isaac Newton fudged out to support at least three central statements that he could not prove. And so (62) Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer, whose master work, Almagest, summed up the case for a solar system that had the earth as its centre. Recent studies indicate that Ptolemy (63) faked some key data or resorted heavily to the finagle factor.
All this is (64) because the finagle factor is still at work. For example, in the artificial sweetener controversy, for example, it is said that all the studies sponsored by the sugar industry find that the artificial sweetener is unsafe, while all the studies sponsored by the diet food industry find nothing (65) with it.

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A:whose B:she C:he D:who

Australian doctors declared Monday that a cocktail of simple antihypertensive drugs can lower the risk of patients suffering a repeat stroke by more than a third. This is the result of their research. The research, presented at a medical conference in Italy over the weekend, has been valued highly as a major breakthrough in stroke prevention.
Strokes kill 5 million people a year, and more than 15 million suffer non-fatal strokes that often leave them with useless limbs, slurred speech and other serious disabilities. One in five stroke survivors goes on to have a second, often fatal, stroke within five years of the first.
An international six-year study of 6,100 patients directed from Sydney University found that by taking two blood pressure-lowering drugs, the risk of secondary strokes can be reduced by up to 40 per cent. Even taking one of the commonly available drugs can cut the risk by a third, the study said. The drugs are the diuretic indapamide and the ACE inhibitor perindopril, better known by its brand name Coversyl. The combination was effective even in patients who did not have high blood pressure, the researchers said. They even found that the risk of another stroke could be cut by three quarters among the one-in-ten patients who had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, the worst type of stroke, where there is direct bleeding into the brain.
Stephen McMahon, who presented the research at the Milan congress of the European Society of Hypertension, said about 50 million people were alive who had suffered at least one stroke. "If most of those patients were able to get access to this treatment. it would result in maybe the avoidance of half a million strokes a year, " the professor told Australia’s ABC Radio.
McMahon said doctors had long known that lowering the blood pressure of those with hypertension could help prevent strokes. "What we have shown for the first time is that it does not really matter what your blood pressure is; if you have had a stroke, then lowering blood pressure will produce large benefits, to begin with — even for people whose blood pressure is average or below average, " he said.
McMahon said the Milan gathering had heralded the research as a "major breakthrough in the care of patients with strokes — perhaps the biggest step forward that we have made in the last couple of decades" .
What patients among those who have had a stroke will benefit greatly from taking blood pressure-lowering drugs

A:Those whose blood pressure is high. B:Those whose blood pressure is average. C:Those whose blood pressure is below average. D:All of the above.