2012年06月之英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試長(zhǎng)篇閱讀信息匹配題訓(xùn)練

1、 2012 年 06 月之英語(yǔ)四級(jí)考試長(zhǎng)篇閱讀信息匹配題訓(xùn)練（隴東人）Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statementsattached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of theparagraphs. Identify the paragraphs from which the information isderived. You may choose a paragraph more

2、 than once. Each paragraphis marked with a letter. Answer the question by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet .2Small Schools RisingThis years list of the top 100 high schools shows that today, those with fewerstudents are flourishing.A) Fifty years ago, they were the latest thing in edu

3、cational reform: big, modern,suburban high schools with students counted in the thousands. As babyboomers(二戰(zhàn)后嬰兒潮時(shí)期出生的人) came of high-school age, big schoolspromised economic efficiency. A greater choice of courses, and, of course,better football teams. Only years later did we understand the trade-of

4、fs thisinvolved: the creation of excessive bureaucracies(官僚機(jī)構(gòu))，the difficulty offorging personal connections between teachers and students. SAT scores begandropping in 1963; today, on average, 30% of students do not complete highschool in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighbor

5、hoods.While the emphasis on teaching to higher, test-driven standards as set in NoChild Left Behind resulted in significantly better performance in elementary(and some middle) schools, high schools for a variety of reasons seemed tohave made little progress.B) Size isnt everything, but it does matte

6、r, and the past decade has seen anoticeable countertrend toward smaller schools. This has been due, in part, tothe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has invested $1.8 billion inAmerican high schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schools-most ofthem with about 400 kids each with an averag

7、e enrollment of only 150 pergrade. About 500 more are on the drawing board. Districts all over the countryare taking notice, along with mayors in cities like New York, Chicago and SanDiego. The movement includes independent public charter schools, such asNo.1 BASIS in Tucson, with only 120 high-scho

8、olers and 18 graduates thisyear. It embraces district-sanctioned magnet schools, such as the Talented andGifted School, with 198 students, and the Science and Engineering Magnet,with383, which share a building in Dallas, as well as the City Honors Schoolin Buffalo, N.Y., which grew out of volunteer

9、evening seminars for students.And it includes alternative schools with students selected by lottery( 抽簽)，such as H-B Woodlawn in Arlington, Va. And most noticeable of all, there isthe phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split upinto smaller units of a few hundred, generally

10、 housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.C) Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif, is one of those, rankingNo.423among the top 2% in the country on Newsweeks annual rankingof Americas top high schools. The success of small schools is appar

11、ent in thelistings. Ten years ago, when the first Newsweek list based on college-leveltest participation was published, only three of the top 100 schools hadgraduating Classes smaller than 100 students. This year there are 22. Nearly250 schools on the full, Newsweek list of the top 5% of schools nat

12、ionally hadfewer than 200 graduates in 2007.D) Although many of Hillsdales students came from wealthy households, by thelate 1990 average test scores were sliding and it had earned the unaffectionatenickname (綽號(hào)) “Hillsjail”. Jeff Gilbert, a Hillsdale teacher who becameprincipal last year, remembers

13、 sitting with other teachers watching studentsfile out of a graduation ceremony and asking one another in astonishment,“How did that student graduate?”E) So in 2003 Hillsdale remade itself into three “houses,” romantically namedFlorence, Marrakech and Kyoto. Each of the 300 arriving ninth graders ar

14、erandomly(隨機(jī)地) assigned to one of the houses. Where they will keep thesame four core subject teachers for two years, before moving on to another for11th and 12th grades. The closeness this system cultivates is reinforced by theinstitution of “advisory” classes Teachers meet with students in groups o

15、f 25,five mornings a week, for open-ended discussions of everything fromhomework problems to bad Saturday-night dates. The advisers also meet withstudents privately and stay in touch with parents, so they are deeply investedin the students success. “Were constantly talking about one anothersadvisers

16、,” says English teacher Chris Crockett. “If you hear that yours isntdoing well in math, or see them sitting outside the deans office, its like apersonal failure.”F) Along with the new structure came a more demanding academic program, thepercentage of freshmen taking biology jumped from 17 to 95.“It

17、was rough forsome. But by senior year, two- thirds have moved up to physics,” says Gilbert“Our kids are coming to school in part because they know there are adults herewho know them and care for them.” But not all schools show advances afterdownsizing, and it remains to be seen whether smaller schoo

18、ls will be acure-all solution.G) The Newsweek list of top U.S. high schools was made this year, as in yearspast, according to a single metric, the proportion of students takingcollege-level exams. Over the years this system has come in for its share ofcriticism for its simplicity. But that is also i

19、ts strength: its easy for readers to understand, and to do the arithmetic for their own schools if theyd like.H) Ranking schools is always controversial, and this year a group of 38superintendents(地區(qū)教育主管)from five states wrote to ask that their schoolsbe excluded from the calculation. “It is impossi

20、ble to know which highschools are the best in the nation, ” their letter read. in part. “Determiningwhether different schools do or dont offer a high quality of education requiresa look at many different measures, including students overall academicaccomplishments and their subsequent performance in

21、 college. And taking intoconsideration the unique needs of their communities.”I) In the end, the superintendents agreed to provide the data we sought, which is,after all, public information. There is, in our view, no real dispute here, we areall seeking the same thing, which is schools that better s

22、erve our children andour nation by encouraging students to tackle tough subjects under the guidanceof gifted teachers. And if we keep working toward that goal, someday, perhapsa list wont be necessary.注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡 2 上作答。1. The “advisory” classes were set up to enable students to maintain closerrela

23、tionship with their teachers, according to Jeff Gilbert.2. Complaining that the ranking was too simple, some superintendents required thatNewsweek delete their schools from the list.3. Most of the schools funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the pastdecade are small in size.4. Simplicity is still considered one of the strengths of Newsweeks school rankingsystem in spite of the criticism it receives.5. Hillsdale had acquired a bad name as the average scores we