Section Ⅲ Reading Comprehension(40 %)
Part A
Directions: Read the following 5 passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing A,B,C,orD.Mask your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
However, a report on citywide mathematics test results in New York in the spring of 1995 deals more fully with the math scores of the 26,248 students who were examined the previous school year in Chinese, Spanish, or Haitian Creole. According to this document, only 16.6 percent of these children were performing at or above grade level in mathematics. Although this figure represents an improvement of 1.1 percent over the scores of the previous year, it discredits the argument that native-language instruction keeps performing at grade level in subject areas. Although LEP students are improving faster than the national norm, they continue to perform far below the norm.
48.This text is mainly about
A.a review of ESL, bilingual an LEP instructions.
B.A survey of new approaches to subject instructions
C.the merits of LEP education program
D.the achievements of bilingual and ESL programs.
49.From Paragraph 1 we learn that
A.ESL instruction could test students faster than LEP instruction
B.LEP students performed worse than did ESL students
C.Native-language instruction classes seemed to fail utterly.
D.The data of the longitudinal study were likely tentative
50.It can be inferred that the paper mentioned in Paragraph 4.
A.has devalued the findings of the longitudinal study
B.has dimmed the differences between students in different programs
C. focuses on the subject achievements of LEP students
D.seeks out the insufficient points in the longitudinal study.
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:
These days we hear a lot of nonsense about the ‘great classless society’. The idea that the twentieth century is the age of the common man has become one of the great clichés of our time. The same old arguments are put forward in evidence. Here are some of them: monarchy as a system of government has been completely discredited. The monarchies that survive have been deprived of all political power. Inherited wealth has been savagely reduced by taxation and, in time, the great fortunes will disappear altogether. In a number of countries the victory has been complete. The people rule; the great millennium has become a political reality. But has it? Close examination doesn’t bear out the claim.
It is a fallacy to suppose that all men are equal and that society will be leveled out if you provide everybody with the same educational opportunities. (It is debatable whether you can ever provide everyone with the same educational opportunities, but that is another question.) The fact is that nature dispenses brains and ability with a total disregard for the principle of equality. The old rules of the jungle, ‘survival of the fittest’, and ‘might is right’ are still with us. The spread of education has destroyed the old class system and created a new one. Rewards are based on merit. For ‘a(chǎn)ristocracy’ read ‘meritocracy’; in other respects, society remains unaltered: the class system is rigidly maintained.
Genuine ability, animal cunning, skill, the knack of seizing opportunities, all bring material rewards. And what is the first thing people do when they become rich? They use their wealth to secure the best possible opportunities for their children, to give them ‘a(chǎn) good start in life’. For all the lip service we pay to the idea of equality, we do not consider this wrong in the western world. Private schools which offer unfair advantages over state schools are not banned because one of the principles in a democracy is that people should be free to choose how they will educate their children. In this way, the new meritocracy can perpetuate itself to a certain extent: an able child from a wealthy home can succeed far more rapidly than his poorer counterpart. Wealth is also used indiscriminately to further political ends. It would be almost impossible to become the leader of a democracy without massive financial backing. Money is as powerful a weapon as ever it was. In societies wholly dedicated to the principle of social equality, privileged private education is forbidden. But even here people are rewarded according to their abilities. In fact, so great is the need for skilled workers that the least able may be neglected. Bright children are carefully and expensively trained to become future rulers. In the end, all political ideologies boil down to the same thing: class divisions persist whether you are ruled by a feudal king or an educated peasant.
51.What is the main idea of this passage?
A.Equality of opportunity in the twentieth century has not destroyed the class system.
B.Equality means money.
C.There is no such society as classless society.
D.Nature can’t give you a classless society.
52.According to the author, the same educational opportunities can’t get rid of inequality because
A.the principle ‘survival of the fittest’ exists.
B.Nature ignores equality in dispensing brains and ability.
C.Material rewards are for genuine ability.
D. People have the freedom how to educate their children.
53.Who can obtain more rapid success
A. those with wealth.
B. Those with the best brains.
C. Those with the best opportunities.
D. Those who have the ability to catch at opportunities.
54.Why does the author say the new meritocracy can perpetuate itself to a certain extent? Because
A. money decides everything.
B.Private schools offer advantages over state schools.
C.People are free to choose the way of educating their children.
D.Wealth is used for political ends.
55.According to the author, ‘class divisions’ refers to
A.the rich and the poor.
B.Different opportunities for people.
C.Oppressor and the oppressed.
D.Genius and stupidity.
Section Ⅳ Translation (15 %)
Directions: In this part there is a passage in English. Translate the five sentences underlined into Chinese and write your translation on the ANSWER SHEET 2.
Cultural norms so completely surround people, so permeate thought and action, that we ever recognize t
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