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10Step 11. Listen to the dialogue from the previous day.2. Go back to page 7, Step 4 and play the man’s part again.Step 2Read the passage and choose the best answer from among the four choices for questions 1 to 3.CD1-02CD1-035101520DAY 2の解答・解説は別冊「解答・解説」のp. 3～5It has been well-known for a long time that there are some differences between the male and female brain. On average, men have larger brains than women, but this does not mean that men are superior to women in terms of intelligence. Despite the fact that a lot of studies on our brain had already been done, the kind of neural circuitry* that exists in the brain and how it affects the capacity to process information had remained undiscovered.However, a research group has uncovered information necessary to answer these questions. The fi ndings, written by Ragini Verma and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)*. They analyzed the scan data of 949 subjects (428 men and 521 women) aged eight to twenty-two using the Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) method*, and succeeded in visualizing how neural circuitry ran in the subjects’ brains. The results indicated that men and women have different structures and wiring in the brain and so they use their brains differently.According to the study, male brains had more connections between the front and back regions within each hemisphere. This means that male brains are designed to facilitate the links between perception and coordinated actions. To put it another way, men are likely to be good at concentrating on a single task at a time, such as reading maps. Female brains, on the other hand, had stronger links between the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. Based on this fact, it is safe to say that women Review of the Previous DayRead the PassageDifferences between the Male and Female Brain10WEEK 1 DAY 2ReadingReading for Comprehension