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Recent studies show that many young people in the United States never finish high school.Some researchers say about fifteen to twenty percent of public school students do not complete their education.But many other experts and policymakers believe that for the past twenty years,the dropout rate has been around thirty percent.For Latino and black students,the numbers are even higher.Researchers say almost half of them leave schoo1.At the same time,almost half the states let students leave school before the age of eighteen without letting their parents know.
Finding a good job without a high school education is _________.A recent study found that almost half of all dropouts aged sixteen to twenty—four did not have a job.The lack of high school education can also lead to other problems.An estimated two—thirds of prisoners in the United States dropped out of high schoo1.
The main reason why many students drop out of school is that they are failing.Many are bored with their classes or feel disconnected from their school and teachers.Some students feel that educators place low expectations on them.
There have been efforts to increase graduation rates through education reforms during the past twenty years.Some communities are working on dropout prevention programs.These include alternative (其他的) high schools to meet special needs.In addition,experts suggest “early warning systems’’ to help identify young school children at the risk of dropping out of high schoo1.They say schools should also keep regular contact with parents,especially if their children are missing school often.
小题1:What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
                                                                          
小题2:Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
Many students feel tired of their classes or don’t feel connected with their school and teachers.
                                                                         
小题3:Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(Please answer within 10 words.)
                                                                       
小题4:What do you think is the most important reason for the high dropout rate in the high school?(Please answer within 30 words.)
                                                                      
小题5:Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
                                                                        
答案

小题1:High Dropout Rate in America’s High School
小题2:Many are bored with their classes or feel disconnected from their school and teachers.
小题3:very difficult/more and more difficult/more difficult than before/not so easy as before.
小题4:They feel the educators and parents are disappointed with them.Little by little they begin to feel tired of their classes.
小题5:.在过去的这二十年期间,一直努力通过教育改革提高毕业率。
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试题分析:
小题1:文章的第一段是主题段落,主要是说美国高中退学的比率在增加,可归纳为:High Dropout Rate in America’s High School
小题2:近义句:be tired of="are" bored with ;feel disconnected from= don’t feel connected with.
小题3:从后面deep句子:A recent study found that almost half of all dropouts aged sixteen to twenty—four did not have a job可知找工作很难或是不容易: very difficult/more and more difficult/more difficult than before/not so easy as before.
小题4:从文章倒数第二段的第一句和第三句可知,学生在学校总是失败,老师对他们的期望值很低。填They feel the educators and parents are disappointed with them.Little by little they begin to feel tired of their classes.
小题5:during the past twenty years在过去的这二十年期间,一直努力,There have been efforts to通过教育改革提高毕业率。increase graduation rates through education reforms
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试题【 Recent studies show that many young people in the United States never finish hi】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Harry is eighteen now. He studies in a middle school.His parents like him very much and hope he can become a famous man. So they often tell him to study hard and they do almost everything for him. They wakes him up at six in the morning, after breakfast his father takes him to school in a car and in the afternoon, as soon as the young man comes back, the supper is ready. Of course, he never washes his clothes or goes to buy anything in the shops.
Once Harry’s father was sent to London on business. He would stay there for half a year. Upon leaving, he told his wife to take good care of their son. The woman had to get up eatlier and did all that her husband did before. And two months later she was so tired that she was ill in bed. Now the young man got into trouble. He couldn’t do any housework. He had to do as his mother told him. He didn’t even know where to get on the bus!
One day Harry’s mother found his shoes were worn out and told him to buy a pair in the shop. But he didn’t  know how to choose  The woman had a sigh (叹息)and give him a shoe patten(鞋样)and told him to buy a pair of.shoes himself. With a policeman’s help, Harry found a shop. The shopkeeper was friendly to him. The man brought a lot of shoes and asked him to choose. When he was trying on a pair, suddenly he remembered something and took them off. The man was surprised and asked, “What’s the matter, young man?”
“I’m sorry. I’ve left the shoe pattern at home!”
小题1:         always does some housework in the morning
A.Harry"s fatherB.Harry"s mother
C.HarryD.Nobody
小题2:The woman had to look after her son by herself because         
A.her husband wasn"t at home
B.she was stronger than her husband
C.she knew the youno man well
D.she was freer than her husband
小题3:When his father was in London,         
A.Harry had to stay at home
B.Harry couldn’t even find the bus stop
C.Harry fell behind in his class
D.Harry wouldn’t go to school
小题4:Harry had to buy shoes himself because _        
A.his mother didn"t know what kind he needed
B.his mother was busy with the housework
C.something was wrong with his mother
D.his mother wanted her son to do something himself
小题5:According to the passage, what can we learn about Harry?
A.He wanted his mother to buy shoes for him.
B.He would rather use the shoe pattern than try the shoes himself.
C.He wouldn"t listen to his mother.
D.He was strong enough to buy shoes for himself.

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If you do not use  your arms or your legs for some time, they will become weak; when you start using them again, they will slowly become stronger again.Everybody knows that .yet many people do not seem to know that memory works in the same way.When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by using it.
When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.If a friend says that his arms and legs are weak, we know that it is his own fault.But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, and few of us know that it is just his own fault.Have you ever noticed that some people can’t read or write but usually they have better memories? This is because they cannot read or write so they have to remember things; they cannot write them down in a little notebook.They have to remember days, names, songs and stories; so their memories are being exercised the whole time.So if you want to have a good memory, learn from these people:Practise remembering.
小题1:One has a poor memory mainly because       
A.his father or mother may have a poor memory
B.he does not use his arms or legs for some time
C.his memory is not often used
D.he can’t read or write
小题2:If you do not use your arms or legs for some time,       .
A.you can’t use them any more
B.they will become stronger
C.they become weak and won’t become stronger until you use them again
D.they will become neither stronger nor weaker
小题3:Which of the following is NOT true?
A.Your memory works in the same way as your arms or legs.
B.Your memory, like your arms or legs,becomes weak if you don’t give it enough chance for practice.
C.Don’t learn how to read and write if you want to have a better memory.
D.A good memory comes from more practice.
小题4:Some people can’t read or write, but they usually have better memories, because       .
A.they have saved much trouble
B.they have saveed much time to remember things
C.they have to use their memories all the time
D.they can’t write everything in a little notebook
小题5:Which is the best title for this passage?
A.Don’t Stop Using Your Arams or Legs
B.How to Have a Good Memory
C.Strong Arms and God Memories
D.Learn from the People

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On the first day of the new term, I met my new headmaster at the school gate. “Follow me, please!” he said. He had a quiet, kind voice. He took me into my new classroom and left. In front of me, thirty pairs of eyes looked at me. I knew he had told the students that I was blind. I could almost feel the question behind their eyes: Blind? I felt the answer too: If she’s blind, this should be good! I heard quiet voices in a corner of the classroom. For a moment, I felt afraid. I knew at once that I had to be strong.
“Class,” I said as loudly as I could. “I may be blind. But I am not foolish. Take those naughty smiles off your faces, and stop talking, please!” Of course, I could not see their faces; I just guessed that some of them were smiling. The class were quiet. They were very surprised. I knew that I had done the right thing.
As the days went by, the students had more surprises. I could smell when the children were eating sweets. I could easily hear combs going through hair, students passing messages, and so on. Once I found a girl passing a message to a friend. I took the message to the teachers’ room. A teacher read it to me. On one side it said, “Do you think she can see?” on the other it said, “I think so. She always knows what we’re doing.”
Soon the students stopped being naughty, and started to work hard. Before long, they brought in photos of their families for me to look at; I knew then they were my friends. I also knew they had forgotten that I could not see.
小题1:In Paragraph(段) 1 the writer said she must be strong because        .
A.she was too weak
B.the students laughed at her
C.the headmaster left her alone
D.she felt the students were not friendly to her
小题2:The students were surprised for the first time because          .
A.the teacher seemed to know everything
B.the teacher caught them smiling
C.the teacher caught them talking
D.the teacher was not foolish
小题3:In the new teacher’s class the students often          .
A.exchanged sweetsB.combed their hair
C.wrote lettersD.read letters
小题4:The students brought their photos for the writer to look at        .
A.to interest herB.to cure her illness
C.to make friends with herD.to show their friendliness

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If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first master the skills of reading and listening.
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.
As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening. For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.
小题1:According to the writer, which should you improve first among the four skills?
A.Reading and listening.B.Reading and writing.
C.Writing and speaking.D.Speaking and listening.
小题2: To improve your reading, when you read you should ______.
A.look up all the new words in the dictionary
B.think about what you are reading actively
C.spend more time studying grammars
D.copy as many words and sentences as possible
小题3:The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “______”.
A.meet B.discoverC.hear D.look for
小题4:The passage is mainly about how to ______.
A.choose suitable listening materials
B.deal with new words in reading
C.improve your reading ability as quickly as possible
D.become fluent in speaking and writing English

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There are three separate sources of danger in supplying energy by nuclear power.
First, the radioactive material must travel from its form of production to the power station. Although the power stations themselves are strongly built, the containers used for the transport of the materials are not. Normally, only two methods of transport are in use, namely road or rail. Unfortunately, both of these may have an effect on the general public, since they are sure to pass near, or even though, heavily populated areas.
Secondly, there is the problem of waste. All nuclear power stations produce waste that in most cases will remain radioactive for thousands of years. It is impossible to make these waste radioactive, and so they must be stored in one of the inconvenient ways that scientists have invented. For example, they may be buried under the ground, or dropped into deserted mines, or sunk in the sea. However, these methods do not solve the problem, since an earthquake could easily break the containers.
Third, there may occur the danger of a leak or an explosion at the power station. As with the other two dangers, this is not very likely, so it does not provide a serious objection to the nuclear program. However, it can happen.
Separately, these three types of dangers are not a great cause for worry. Taken together, though, the probability of disaster is extremely high.
小题1:Which of the following is FALSE ?
A.It is possible that a leak or an explosion occurs at a power station.
B.It is unusual for radioactive materials to be transported across land.
C.The containers are likely to be broken by an earthquake.
D.Nuclear wastes remain dangerous in most cases for many years.
小题2:The author thinks that the ways to store nuclear wastes are ____________.
A.easyB.impossibleC.reasonableD.ineffective
小题3:What do we learn from the last paragraph ?
A.The power station is a safe place.
B.The dangers of nuclear energy can be prepared.
C.The general public are strongly against the nuclear program.
D.Itself, none of the three dangers is very likely to cause much worry.
小题4: What is this passage mainly about ?
A.uses of nuclear power
B.Dangers from nuclear power
C.Public anger at nuclear power
D.Accidents caused by nuclear power.

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