正确答案: A

To show he is homosexual.

题目：Passage 1 NBA centre Jason Collins recently announced he was gay in a cover story for Sports Illustraied. In other words, he "came out of the closet." This expression for revealing one's homosexuality may seem natural. Being in the closet implies hiding from the outside world, and the act of coming out of it implies the will to stop hiding. But though the closet has long been a metaphor for privacy or secrecy, its use with reference to homosexuality is relatively recent. According to George Chauncey's comprehensive history of modern gay culture, Gay New York, the closet metaphor was not used by gay people until the 1960s. Before then, it doesn't appear anywhere "in the records of the gay movement or in the novels, diaries, or letters of gay men and lesbians." "Coming out," however, has long been used in the gay community, but it first meant something different than it does now. "A gay man's coming out originally referred to his being formally presented to the largest collective manifestation of prewar gay society, the enormous dra~; balls that were patterned on the debutante and masquerade balls of the dominant culture and were regularly held in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, and other cities." The phrase "coming out" did not refer to coming out of hiding, but to joining into a society of peers. The phrase was borrowed from the world of debutante balls, where young women "came out" in being officially introduced to society. The gay debutante balls were a matter of public record and often covered in the newspaper, so "coming out" within gay society often meant revealing your sexual orientation in the wider society as well, but the phrase didn't necessarily carry the implication that if you hadn't yet come out, you were keeping it a secret. There were other metaphors for the act of hiding or revealing homosexuality. Gay people could "wear a mask" or "take off the mask". A man could "wear his hair up" or "let his hair down", or "drop hairpins" that would only be recognized by other gay men. It is unclear exactly when gay people start.ed using the closet metaphor, but "it may have been used initially because many men who remained 'covert' thought of their homosexuality as a sort of 'skeleton in the closet'." It may also have come from outsiders who viewed it that way. It seems that "coming out of the closet" was born as a mixture of two metaphors: a debutante proudly stepping into the arms of a community and a shocking secret being kept in hiding. Now the community is the wider community, and the secret is no longer shocking. "Coming out" is a useful phrase, but it need not imply a closet.

解析：根据题干中的"take off the mask"可定位至第四段"There were other metaphors for the act of hiding or revealing homosexuality. Gay people could'wear a mask' or 'take off the mask'，"加之，"戴上面具"本身意味着神秘地隐藏起来，而"摘下面具"则意味着公开，故"戴上面具"指的是向人公开自己是同性恋。

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[单选题]班集体形成过程分为三个阶段：( )、前班集体阶段、班集体阶段。

聚合阶段

解析：班集体形成过程分为三个阶段：聚合阶段、前班集体阶段、班集体阶段。

[多选题]请简述高中英语教师应如何在教学过程中不断提高专业水平，与新课程同步发展。

[单选题]在同一文档中进行不同的页面设置，必须用( )。

分节

解析：同一文档中，只有使用分节设置，才能进行不同页面的设置，故选择A。

[单选题]2/5,-3/7,4/9,-5/11,( ).

6/13

解析：此数列的规律为：分子是首项为2，公差为1的等差数列；分母是首项为5，公差为2的等差数列。第偶数个项的符号为负，第奇数个项的符号为正，故答案为B。

[单选题]教科书是对某学科现有知识和成果的综合归纳和系统阐述，为教师备课、上课、布置作业、评定学生学习成绩提供基本材料。在编写教科书时，应遵循的原则是( )。

科学性、思想性、基础性、适用性

解析：在编写教科书时，应遵循的原则有：(1)按照不同学科的特点，体现科学性与思想性。(2)强调内容的基础性。在加强基础知识和基本技能的同时，注意贴近社会生活，并适当渗透先进的科学思想，为学生今后学习新知识奠定基础。(3)在保证科学性的前提下，教材还要考虑到我国社会发展现实水平和教育现状，必须注意到基本教材对大多数学生和大多数学校的适用性。(4)合理体现各科知识的逻辑顺序和受教育者学习的心理顺序。(5)兼顾同一年级各门学科内容之间的关系和同一学科各年级教材之间的衔接。

[单选题]"讲授法"经久不衰的主要原因是( )。

它是教学成本最低的方法

解析：讲授法最大的优点是能在短时间内传授大量的知识，教学成本比其他的教学方法低，故而经久不衰，因此选C。

[单选题]张丽在进行道德判断时，能够超越某种规章制度，更多考虑道德的本质，而非具体的原则。根据科尔伯格的道德发展阶段论，其道德发展处于哪一阶段?（ ）

普遍伦理

解析：根据科尔伯格的道德发展阶段论，第六阶段即原则或良心定向阶段，也称“普遍原则的道德定向阶段”。这一阶段个体已经认识到了社会秩序的重要性和维持社会秩序可能的弊端，因而看到了社会规则、法律的局限性。个体的道德判断更多考虑道德的本质，而非具体的原则。故本题选D。