Question 16 is based on the passage you have just heard.

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         (16) [A recent study found that 10 percent of British children suffer from maths anxiety. This means they have “overwhelming negative emotions” towards the subject,] ranging “from rage to despair”. Other emotions triggered by maths include feelings of tension and frustration. Physical symptoms include a racing heart or struggling to catch breath. The phenomenon of maths anxiety is characterised as a “general sense of feeling that the subject is hard compared with other subjects”, leading to a subsequent lack or loss of confidence. The researchers said they investigated individuals’ attitudes towards mathematics because of what could be referred to as a ‘mathematics crisis’ in the UK. (17) [There is a widespread misunderstanding that only low-performing children suffer from maths anxiety.] People automatically assume children are anxious about maths because they are poor achievers. In fact, more than three quarters of children with high levels of maths anxiety are normal to high achievers. Probably their maths anxiety will go unnoticed because their performance is good. But in the long term, their performance is negatively affected. So a real danger here is that children who are completely able to do maths at a normal level may keep away from it because they feel anxious. Maths anxiety can severely disrupt students’ performance in the subject in both primary and secondary school. But importantly—and surprisingly—(18) [this new study suggests that the majority of students experiencing maths anxiety have normal to high maths ability.]

16. What did a recent study find about some British children?（最近一项关于英国儿童的研究发现了什么？）

解析：D。录音开头表示，最近的一项研究发现，10%的英国儿童有数学焦虑症，这意味着他们对数学这个科目存在着“压倒性的负面情绪”，D项中的strong是对录音中overwhelming的同义替换，negative emotions为原词复现，故D项正确。

错项排除：A项和C项在录音中未提及，故排除。录音中说该研究发现10%的英国儿童有数学焦虑症，但并没有说他们需要用医疗手段来应对这种焦虑，故B项错误。