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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 Imagine that you are at a dinner party, seated with many people at a large table. 
In the course of conversation, the person sitting across from對面you laughingly remarks說起、談論、言辭, “Of course, I’m illiterate文盲…!” What would you say? Would you laugh along with隨著 him or her and confess坦白 that you never really learned to read either? Would you expect other people at the table to do so? Now imagine the same scene, only this time the guest across from you says, “Of course, I’ve never been any good at math…!” What happens this time? Naturally當然、自然地, you can expect other people at the table to chime in插話（通常表贊同）、附和 cheerfully with their own claims宣稱 to have “never been good at math”—the implicit隱含 message being that no ordinary普通 person ever is. 
        The fact is that mathematics數學 has a tarnished誹謗 reputation名譽 in many English-speaking societies.
It is commonly accepted that math is difficult, obscure費解, and of interest only to “certain某些 people.” 
People who are talented at math or profess自稱 enjoyment of it are often treated as though they are not quite normal. Alarmingly使人驚恐的, many school teachers communicate this attitude態度 to their students directly or indirectly間接, so that young people are invariably老是 exposed暴露 to an anti反對-math bias偏好 at an impressionable易受影響 age. 
It comes thus as a surprise to many people to learn that this attitude is not shared by other societies. 
In Russian or German culture, for example, mathematics is viewed as an essential part of literacy知識、能力, and an educated person would be chagrined失望 to confess ignorance of basic mathematics.
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