Text 2Women are, on the whole, more verbal than men. They are good at language and verbal

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Womenare,onthewhole,moreverbalthanmen.Theyaregoodatlanguageandverbalreasoning,whilementendtobeskilledattasksdemandingvisualspatialabilities.Infact,alongwithaggression,thesearethemostcommonlyaccepteddifferencesbetweenthesexes.

Wordsaretoolsforcommunicatingwithotherpeople,especiallyinformationaboutpeople.Theyaremainlysocialtools.Visualandspatialabilitiesaregoodforimaginingandmanipulatingobjectsandforcommunicatinginformationaboutthem.Arethesetalentsprogrammedintothebrain?Insomeofthenewestandmostcontr oversialresearchinneurophysiology,ithasbeensuggestedthatwhenitcomestothebrain,malesarespecialistswhilewomenaregeneralists.

Butnooneknowswhat,ifanything,thismeansintermsoftheabilitiesofthetwosexes.Engineeringisbothvisualandspatial,andit'str uethattherearerelativelyfewwomenengineers.Butwomenbecomejustasskilledasmenatshootingarifleordrivingacar,tasksthatinvolvevisualspatialskills.Theyalsodoequallywellatprogrammingacomputer,whichisneithervisualnorspatial.Womendo,however,seemlesslikelytofallinlovewiththeobjectsthemselves.Weallknowmenforwhommachinesseemtobeextensionsoftheiridentity.Awomanismorelikelytoseehercar,rifle,orcomputerasausefultool,butnotinitselffascinating.

26.Accordingtothepassage,womenareusuallygoodat______.

A)bodylanguage

B)logicalreasoning

C)tasksdemandingfortheuseofwords

D)bothAandB