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請依下文回答第 17 題至第 21 題        Imagine that you are at a dinner party, seated with many people at a large table. In the course of conversation, theperson sitting across from you laughingly remarks, “Of course, I’m illiterate…!” What would you say? Would youlaugh along with him or her and confess that you never really learned to read either? Would you expect other people atthe table to do so? Now imagine the same scene, only this time the guest across from you says, “Of course, I’ve neverbeen any good at math…!” What happens this time? Naturally, you can expect other people at the table to chime incheerfully with their own claims to have “never been good at math”—the implicit message being that no ordinaryperson ever is.         The fact is that mathematics has a tarnished reputation in many English-speaking societies. It is commonlyaccepted that math is difficult, obscure, and of interest only to “certain people.” People who are talented at math orprofess enjoyment of it are often treated as though they are not quite normal. Alarmingly, many school teacherscommunicate this attitude to their students directly or indirectly, so that young people are invariably exposed to ananti-math bias at an impressionable age. It comes thus as a surprise to many people to learn that this attitude is notshared by other societies. In Russian or German culture, for example, mathematics is viewed as an essential part ofliteracy, and an educated person would be chagrined to confess ignorance of basic mathematics.
17 What is this passage mainly about?
(A) The ways of mastering mathematical skills
(B) Some social attitudes towards mathematics
(C) The reasons why many students fail their math course
(D) The application of math in daily life

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答案：B
難度：簡單0.736842
統計：A(1),B(28),C(8),D(1),E(0) #
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