大学英语六级考试模拟试卷四十三(带答案)

大学英语六级考试模拟试卷四十三

(总分：32.00，做题时间：130分钟)

一、问答题(总题数：2，分数：2.00)

ions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write o short essay

entitled The Impor-tance of Independent Thinking and Curiosity in the

can, cite examples to illus-trate your should write at least

150 words but no more than, 200 words.

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正确答案：(The Importance of Independent Thinking and Curiosity in the

Workplace

(1)In the modem society, it's undeniable that com-petition in the workplace is

becoming more and more fierce, which puts higher requirements on the quality of

the corporate culture of many companies,employees are encouraged

to keep curiosity and think of this suggest that independent

thinking and curiosity play an important role in the workplace.

(2)The importance of independent thinking and cu-riosity can be analyzed

briefly from two terms of employees, the ability of independent

thinking and curiosity can promote a person's rapid growth in competence, and

complete work tasks with high quality in a short time, making him/her stand

the cor-porate side, advocating independent thinking and curios-ity can increase the

reserve of talents and employees with independent thinking and curiosity, creating

greater value for a business, A company that emphasizes independent thinking and

curiosity will be more powerful in creativity and innovation.

(3)As Steve Jobs, who created Apple Inc., said,“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” We

should always be eager to learn new knowledge, and never fancy that we are smart

enough to stop learning and for college students who are about to enter

the workplace,we should pay attention to maintaining curiosity and developing the

ability of independent thinking.)

解析：(1)开篇引题，指出职场中独立思考和好奇心的重要性。

(2)从In terms of employees和On the corporate side两个方面分析独立思考和好奇心的重要性。

(3)引用Steve Jobs的名言，总结观点，并提出建议。

2.目前，中国很多城市纷纷建立共享书吧。人们可在共享书吧的书架中自行挑选任意一本感兴趣的纸质图书或刊物回家阅读，阅毕可将此书送回。有些书吧还引进数字阅读机，每台机器内存有大量高清畅销书，每月定时更新，使用二维码扫一扫即可阅读。接下来，共享书吧将面向更广泛的地方推广，以期更好地发挥图书馆馆藏资源利用率，进一步在全国范围内推广“全民阅读”，加快构建公益性、均等性、便利性的公共文化服务体系，真正让共享书吧成为提升公共文化服务水平和市民文化素养的载体平台。

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正确答案：(Nowadays, (1)sharing book bars are established in many cities

around China People can take any one of the (2)paper books and magazines they are

interested in back reading they can retum books to the

s,therearealso (3)e-book readers,eachofwhichboasts a large number of

(4)HD best-sellers (5)with monthly updates The e-books can be acquired through

scanning the (6)QR code on the g book bar, in the future, will be set up

in more cities (7)ina bid to maximize the utilization of the library

resources,( 8)promote the public awareness of reading, and accelerate the

construction of a public cultural service system(9)featuring public benefit, equality of

access and convenience, making the sharing book bars a car-rier platform to advance

the level of public cultural ser-vices and the cultural literacy of citizens.)

解析：(1)“共享书吧”可翻译为sharing book bars。

(2)“纸质图书”可翻译为paper books。

(3)“数字阅读机”可翻译为e-book readers。

(4)“高清畅销书”可翻译为HD best-sellers。

(5)“每月定期更新”可作“数字阅读机”的伴随状语，翻译为with monthly

updates。

(6)“二维码”可翻译为QR code。

(7)“以期更好地”表目的，可用短语in a bid to“为了……”。

(8)“推广‘全民阅读”’可理解为“提高公民的阅读意识”，即promote the public

awareness of reading。

(9)“公益性、均等性、便利性”修饰公共文化服务体系，即这三点是服务体系的特点，可译为后置定语，用featuring连接，翻译为featuring public benefit，equali-ty of access and convenience。

二、单选题(总题数：30，分数：30.00)

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：此处要填名词。空格前为形容词性物主代词their，故空格处应填名词，且需填入的词应与climbing the luerarchy of their构成搭配。第一句中出现promotion（升职），第二句意为“许多员工将希望寄托________在晋升”。故名词复数organizations符合题意，与the hierarchy of构成搭配，意为“组织层级，公司内部”。故本题选I。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：此处要填形容词。空格前为each，空格后为名词title，故空格处应填入形容词，修饰名词，且符合greater status的含义。该句意为“他们有这样的抱负，除了期待更高的薪水，还有每次 就会带来更高的地位”。故形容词successive符合句意，修饰名词title，意为“接连的，相继的”，与each搭配。each successive

title意为“（之后的）每一次晋升”。故本题选G。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：空格前为介词in，空格处应填名词或动名词，且要和end in连用符合原文语义，故备选项dissatisfac-tion，bucks，disappointment，incompetence，overwork和nothing均在选择范围。但根据下文Peter principle的内容可知，步步高升最终走到不擅长的岗位，导致事业停滞不前。由此可推断出，寄希望于升职，但结果可能会令人失望。因此disappointment“失望”符合题意。故本题选D。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：根据空格前介词of可知，空格处应填入名词或动名词，且要和reach

their level of搭配，此句陈述“彼得原理”的内容，句意为“员工不断得到晋升，直到达到________的职位”。根据后文not good at可知，incompe-tence“不胜任，不称职”符合题意。故本题选L。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：此处要填形容词。分析上下文语义和逻辑关系可知，此句是一个由上文引出的推论，其句意为“____的推论是，任何长期处于当前职位的高级工作人员都不称职”。将备选项logical“符合逻辑的”、available“可得到的；有空的”、man y‘许多的”和suitable“适合的”代入原文可知，logical符合题意。故本题选A。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：根据空格前to be可知，空格处所填单词应为形容词或动词的过去分词，备选项中没有过去分词，因此应填形容词。前文提到职位越高，要求的时间越多，根据句意“首席执行官会希望你周末也________”可知，available符合题意，意为“有时间工作”。故本题选F。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：此处要填名词。根据空格前形容词big可知，空格处所填单词应为名词，且能和pay构成搭配，本句意为“毕竟，这是公司支付给你高________的原因”。因此bucks“美元”符合语义，big bucks意为“高薪”。故本题选C。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：空格前为一个完整的句子，空格后为名词短语the corporate troops，分析句子可知，逗号后的部分应为状语，且句子主语为you，故空格处应填入现在分词作非谓语成分。因此visiting符合题意，且可以和the corporate troops搭配，意为“视察公司的团队”。故本题选K。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：空格前为动词achieved，空格后为of，由此可知，空格处应填入形容词或名词，并与后面的of sub-stance搭配。备选项形容词many和of搭配，构成many of“许多”，但前文出现了nagging feeling“不愉快（低落／沮丧）的感觉”，因此不符合句意。将备选项nothing代入空格处，achieved nothing of substance“没有取得任何实质性的成果”符合题意。故本题选M。

ons 1 to 10 are based on the following passage.

Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing

the hierarchy of their____1____.The prospect of higher pay helps explain their

ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each____2____title.

This scramble can often end in____3____.The Peter principle, developed by

Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until

they reach their level of____4____.It makes perfect you are good at your job,

you rise up the career ally, there will be ajob you are not good at and at

that point your career will ____5____corollary is that any se-nior staff

members who have been in their job for an extended period are incompetent.

The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on

your chief executive will expect you to be____6____at weekends; after all,

that is why you get paid the big____7____.Subordinates will also feel that they are

able to ask you tricky questions whenever they arise; they don't want to take

decisions that are above their pay you are in charge of a geo-graphical region,

you may spend much of your time on planes,____8____ the corporate

when you are not travelling, your day will be filled with the end of the

day, you will have been extremely busy, but with a nagging feeling that you have

achieved____9____ of substance.

So that shiny promotion may not be for the curse of overwork

and____10____.Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at

the centre of is best to let them get on with it.

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解析：此处要填名词。空格前是and，出现the curse of，且所填词汇和overwork构成并列关系，因此空格处应填名词。本句意为“小心升职带来超负荷工作和________的诅咒”。因此根据前文内容，dissatisfaction“心情不愉悦”符合题意。故本题选B。

参考译文

升职真的有必要吗？许多员工将希望寄托于公司内部晋升上。他们有这样的抱负，除了期待更高的薪水，还有每晋升一级就会带来更高的地位。

而这种晋升往往会令人失望。劳伦斯·彼得在1969年出版了一本书，在这本书中他提出了“彼得原理”，该原理指出员工不断得到晋升，直到达到他无法胜任的职位。这种说法颇有道理。如果你能胜任所做的工作，你就会在职业发展阶梯上越爬越高。最终，在阶梯的上层总会有一份工作是你并不擅长的，到那时你的职业发展就会停滞不前。合乎逻辑的推论是，任何长期处于当前职位的高级工作人员都不称职。

你在职业发展阶梯上爬得越高，工作对时间的要求通常就越多。首席执行官会希望你周末也有时间工作。毕竟，这是公司支付给你高薪的原因。你的下属也会觉得无论何时，只要出现棘手的问题，他们都能向你求助。因为他们不想做出高于自己薪酬水平的决定。如果你是某个区域的负责人，你可能大部分时间都会在飞机上度过，出差去各地视察公司的团队。不出差的时候，你又要参加各种各样的会议。到了晚上，你觉得自己度过了极其忙碌的一天，却有种不愉快的感觉，你觉得这一天并没有取得任何实质性的工作成果。

所以，光鲜的晋升可能并不适合每个人。小心升职带来超负荷工作和心情不愉快的诅咒。有些人喜欢将自己的生活全都奉献给工作，并成为各种活动的核心人物。最好让他们继续下去。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Forte said, teaching at school is not a personality contest.

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C.C

D.D

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解析：此句意为“福尔特说，学校的教学不是性格比赛”，与L段Forte said，“…The parent just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a

personality contest.”意思相同。故本题选L。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Teachers will decide early in the process of students' separation or keeping

together.

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B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

F.F

G.G

H.H

I.I

J.J √

K.K

L.L

M.M

解析：此句意为“在过程中老师有权早期决定哪些学生应该分开或待在一起”，与J段Typically，teachers have some say in the process by deciding early on which

students should be separated or kept together意思相同。故本题选J。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Denita Ricci tries to stay out of the process when her son hoped to stay in the

same class with his best friend.

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B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

F.F

G.G

H.H

I.I

J.J

K.K

L.L

M.M √

解析：此句意为“当德妮坦·里奇的儿子希望与他最好的朋友分到同一个班时，她试着不去干涉这个过程”。M段提到德妮坦，里奇的儿子想和最好的朋友在一个班级的事情，与题干意思一致。故本题选M。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Chaya Fish said, sometimes the way to decide a popular teacher was ridiculous.

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B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

F.F √

G.G

H.H

I.I

J.J

K.K

L.L

M.M

解析：此句意为“查雅·费什说，有时决定一个老师是否受欢迎的方式很荒谬”。F段提到，因为校长的儿子无意识地进入了她的班级，她就成了受欢迎的老师，查雅·费什说It was ridiculous，与题干意思一致。故本题选F。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Michelle Van Every said, some parents' reasons for requesting classes have

nothing to do with the teachers.

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解析：此句意为“米歇尔·凡·艾弗利说，有些家长对班级的要求与老师无关”，与I段Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes，and some have

nothing to do with the teacher，said Michelle Van Every意思相同。故本题选I。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Many school districts don't announce class assignments until the last minute.

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解析：此句意为“许多学区等到最后一刻才宣布班级分配”，与K段Many

school districts wait until the last minute to announce class assignments, usually

about two weeks before the start-up of school意思相同。故本题选K。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Scott Meek said, different students may acquire different knowledge from

excellent teachers.

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解析：此句意为“斯科特·米克说，不同的学生从优秀的老师那里学到的知识是不一样的”，与D段“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields

and baseball fields, but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be

very different than someone else's Teacher A，”said Scott Meek意思相同。故本题选D。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Jamie Thompson was initially concerned with her daughter, but she didn't want

to interfere too much.

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解析：此句意为“杰米·汤普森起初很关心她的女儿，但是她不想干涉太多”，与H段Jamie Thompson said she was initially concemed when her daughter was

assigned to a strict lst-grade teacher…That's why I didn’t want to interfere too much意思相同。故本题选H。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Administrators say, what makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with

a particular child' s educational needs.

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E.E

F.F

G.G

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J.J

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L.L

M.M

解析：此句意为“管理者说，一个老师的受欢迎程度可能与某个孩子的教育需求毫不相干”，与C段Administrators don't want the selection process to be a

popularity contest-in part because what makes a teacher popular may have nothing

to do witha particular child's educational needs意思相同。放本题选C。

s’Homework：Find Perfect Teachers for Kids

(A)Tomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two

children, making her case this spring in letters to the all she could do

was waiting for news of their classroom assignments-and it's been

Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no year ago her son didn't get

the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed

style came across to him as uncaring.“Granted, I know it's just kindergarten,” said

Hall, 39.“But ...a teacher can make or break you.”

(B)In the next few weeks, many families will rip open notification letters or go to

school to see class-lists posted on the front parents accustomed to directing

nearly every aspect of their child's early learning it can be difficult to have little voice

in teacher selection—a decision they view as spend hours crafting the

perfect letter or meet with the principal to make an their child's early

learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.

(C)Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling

(同时应付)individual say they want input but find it increasingly

necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific strators

don't want the selection process to be a popularity contest—in part because what

makes a teacher popular may have nothing to do with a particular child's educational

needs.

(D)“I'm bright enough to realize parents' talk at soccer fields and baseball fields,

but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than

someone else's Teacher A,”said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior

High School who is making classroom assignments this summer for 600 students with

the help of an office display asks parents to focus their input on the

student and his or her learning style and trust the school to make the right match.

(E)Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.

“I need one of those strict kinds of teachers,” said Hall's daughter Tori, 12, who is

entering 7th grade.“When I get a not-so-strict teacher, I think they don't really care

about me.I really don't want a bad teacher.I'll get lower grades.”

(F)When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New

York, she said, it was obvious who the “in” teachers said she

automatically joined them after the principal's son landed in her classroom.“It was

ridiculous,” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably better than was how

you dressed, how you talked that of ten determined parental favor.”

(G)Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties

involved can avoid a difficult school educators warn that parents who get

what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people

orchestrate(精心安排)who they think their child is best suited for,they find they

made a mistake,” said Mark Friedman, superintendent(督学） for Libertyville

Elementary School District 70.“I have many parents say later, 'I don't know why I did

isn't working out this year.” Friedman said he assures parents their comments

will be consid-ered but never guarantees a specific fact, he tells them that

if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice, “you have no one to blame

but yourself.”

(H)Some parents said they've learned their lesson about trying to guess which

teacher would be Thompson said she was initially concerned when her

daughter was assigned to a strict lst-grade was aware other parents had

lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style.“At the end, it turned out

that the other class was asking,'Why isn't my child learning that? ” said Thompson,

36, of Arlington Heights.“That's why I don't want to interfere too much.”

(I)Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have

nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of and

other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom with a

specific boy—not because of him, but to avoid his mother, who had created

problems in the past, she said.“We didn't want to cross paths with her,” said Van

Every, who added that the school complied with their request.”We didn't want to

have to volunteer with her at a class party.”

(J)Each district follows its own procedure for teacher begin as

early as April or May, officials ask parents to complete a form about their

child's strengths and lly, teachers have some say in the process by

deciding early on which students should be separated or kept together, on the basis

of academics, personalities and learning principal draws up the final class

lists, often after meeting with parents or reviewing special requests, officials said.

(K)Many school districts wait until the last minute to announce class

assignments, usually about two weeks before the start-up of 's because

they have come to expect a flood of phone calls within hours from parents who beg

or demand to switch teachers.

(L)Other schools handle it Sawyer Elementary School on Chicago's

Southwest Side,the fall class assignments are handed out with the last report card

the previous spring, said teacher Maureen “Moe” said she is aware of

colleagues and members of the Local School Council who have asked that their

children be moved from one class into another.“It's not fair,” Forte said.“l was very

upset that one of the LSC parents moved her daughter to my parent

just felt my personality fit better with her it's not a personality contest.”

(M)Denita Ricci of Lake Villa said she knows parents who request certain classes

but try to stay out of the son, Mason Wubs, 12, hopes to be placed in

the same class as his best friend,easing the transition to 7th grade at a new school.“I

trust the school's judgment,” she said,though she secretly hopes Mason will share a

class with his friend.“I think they need to learn to deal with people who are different

from them,just like an employer.”

Mark Friedman said, in most cases people will make mistakes in choosing

teacher and class for their children.

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A.A

B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

F.F

G.G √

H.H

I.I

J.J

K.K

L.L

M.M

解析：此句意为“马克·弗里德曼说，许多情况下人们在给孩子选择老师和班级时会犯错”，与G段A lot of times when people orchestrate who they think their

child is best suited for, they find they made a mistake,”said Mark Friedman意思相同。故本题选G。

参考译文

家长的作业：为孩子寻找完美的老师

A)汤米·霍尔竭尽全力为她的两个孩子去游说最好的老师，在今年春天写给校长的信中说明她的情况。之后，她唯一能做的就是等待班级分配，这个过程很折磨人。曙光女神知道她的努力得不到保证。一年前，儿子没有进入霍尔所希望的老师的班级。霍尔的儿子好几个月都在挣扎，老师轻快的（讲课）风格让他认为是漠不关心。39岁的霍尔说：“当然，我知道这只是幼儿园，但是……老师可以成就也可以毁掉一个人。”

B)在接下来的几周，许多家庭会拆开通知信或去学校看贴在前门的分班公告。对于那些习惯于面面俱到地指导孩子早期学习的父母，很难让他们在选择老师时保持沉默——他们认为这是一个重要的决定。为坚持自己的想法，一些家长花几个小时起草完美的信件或找校长。家长认为老师在孩子的早期教育中至关重要。

C)与此同时，校长们除了努力平衡分班，还要处理一些个别请求。他们说想要孩子有所收获，但是发现越来越有必要阻止父母要求特定的老师。管理者不希

望选择过程成为人气竞赛——在某种程度上，一个老师的受欢迎程度可能与孩子的教育需求毫不相干。

D)诺斯布鲁克初中的新校长斯科特·米克说：“我懂得家长在足球场和棒球场的谈话，但是你必须意识到不同的人从老师A那里学到的东西是不一样的。”他现在正在办公室用电脑为今年夏季的600名学生分班。他要求家长们关注学生在学习上的收获以及学习习惯，并相信学校会做出正确的分配。

E)一些学生也认识到某些教师能帮助他们成为最好的自己。霍尔的女儿多莉即将升入七年级，她说：“我需要一个严格的老师，如果遇到不怎么严厉的老师，我会认为他们并不是真的在乎我。我真的不想要一个糟糕的老师，那样我会得到更低的分数。”

F)西罗杰斯公园30岁的查雅·费什曾在纽约一所私立学校任教。她说谁是受欢迎的老师非常明显。她说自从校长的儿子成为她班上的学生之后，她自动地加入了受欢迎老师的阵营。她说：“这真的很荒谬。其他老师可能比我更优秀。通常，一个人的穿着与谈吐会决定家长们的态度。”

G)老师说，最直言不讳的父母经常随心所欲，以避免整个学年各方都不好过。但是教育工作者警告说，得偿所愿的父母以后也许会后悔。利伯蒂维尔区70小学的督学马克·弗里德曼说：“很多时候家长们精心安排他们认为最适合孩子的老师，之后发现他们犯了错误。我们这里有很多家长后来会说，‘我不知道当初为什么这样做，今年根本没用，。”弗里德曼说，他向家长们保证会考虑他们的意见，但绝不会保证安排特定的老师。事实上，他告诉他们，如果确实要求了某个老师之后又后悔，“到时候只能怪自己”。

H)一些家长说他们已经从猜测谁会是最好的老师中得到了教训。杰米·汤普森说她女儿被分配给一个一年级的严格老师时，她最初很担心。她知道其他家长已经为换一个比较随性的老师进行了游说。来自阿灵顿高地36岁的汤普森说：“最后，事实证明另一个班的家长会问‘为什么我的孩子没有学那个呢？”“‘这就是为什么我不想干涉太多的原因。”

I)来自迪尔菲尔德36岁的米歇尔·凡·艾弗利说，尽管家长们出于不同的原因对班级提出要求，但一些家长对班级的要求跟老师无关。她和其他母亲曾要求他们的孩子不能和某一男孩分在一起，原因并不是因为这个男孩.而是为了避开男孩的母亲，她过去制造了许多问题。她说：“我们不想碰到男孩的妈妈。”并补充说学校听从了她们的要求。“我们不想在班级聚会上和她一起参加志愿活动。”

J)每个地区遵循特有的程序选择老师。官员说，有些地区早在四月或五月就开始筛选。许多地区要求家长们填表说明孩子的优缺点。通常，在这个过程中老师有权在早期决定哪些学生应该分开或待在一起，这会根据学生的学习基础、性格以及学习方式而定。校长常常会与家长开会或审查特别请求之后，草拟最后的班级列表。

K)许多学区等到最后一刻才宣布班级分配，通常在开学两个星期前。因为他们担心数小时内连续不断地接到家长的请求或要求换老师的电话。

L)其他学校的处理方式有所不同。芝加哥西南侧的索耶小学的莫琳·莫伊·福尔特老师说，秋季班级分配会与前一年春天的最后成绩单一起发放。福尔特说她知道同事们和当地学校委员会成员要求给他们的孩子调班。她说：“这不公平。我非常担心一个当地学校委员会(LSC)的家长将女儿转到我的班级。那个家长只是认为我的性格与她的孩子更合得来。但是，这不是一个性格比赛。”

M)Lake Villa的德妮坦·里奇说，她了解那些要求特定班级却试图不参与此

过程的家长们。她12岁的儿子梅森·伍布斯希望和他最好的朋友分到同一班，来缓解升入7年级转到新学校的不适。她说：“我相信学校的判断。”尽管她私下希望梅森会和他的朋友分在一个班。“我认为他们需要学会与不同的人相处，就像老板一样。”

atical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be

connected, but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say

that they quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I

studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathe-matician or scientist, and

four fifths had a close relative who played a musical chil-dren

themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.

Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same r,

it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of

American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics,

science and engineering.

If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related,

how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of

mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while

certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has

happened with a number of well-known black musicians.

It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without

formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music,

piano rather than violin, blues rather than is readily understandable, given

that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the

leisure for long years of formal study in music.

Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular have

played a dispropor-tionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional

and modern.A long string of names comes to mind—Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin,

, Louis Armstrong and so on.

None of this indicates any special innate ability of blacks in the

contrary, it is perfectly consistent with blacks having no more such inborn ability than

anyone else, but being lim-ited to being able to express such ability in narrower

channels than others who have had the money,the time and the formal education to

spread out over a wider range of music, as well as into mathe-matics, science and

engineering.

Why does the author speak about the group of children he studied in the first

paragraph?

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tries to tell us that more people are better at music than math.

intends to make out that mathematical ability and musical ability are

connected. √

wants to say that mathematical ability has more to do with brain than

musical ability.

calls on more research on the relationship between mathematical ability

and musical ability.

解析：推断题。根据第一段people who have researched the subject and studied

the brain say that they are以及后面所举的例子可知，作者试图证明数学能力和音乐能力有联系。故本题选B。

atical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be

connected, but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say

that they quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I

studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathe-matician or scientist, and

four fifths had a close relative who played a musical chil-dren

themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.

Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same r,

it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of

American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics,

science and engineering.

If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related,

how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of

mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while

certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has

happened with a number of well-known black musicians.

It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without

formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music,

piano rather than violin, blues rather than is readily understandable, given

that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the

leisure for long years of formal study in music.

Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular have

played a dispropor-tionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional

and modern.A long string of names comes to mind—Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin,

, Louis Armstrong and so on.

None of this indicates any special innate ability of blacks in the

contrary, it is perfectly consistent with blacks having no more such inborn ability than

anyone else, but being lim-ited to being able to express such ability in narrower

channels than others who have had the money,the time and the formal education to

spread out over a wider range of music, as well as into mathe-matics, science and

engineering.

The word “discrepancy” (Para.3)most probably means________.

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ence √

ence

ability

ity

解析：含义题。文章第一段中心意思是数学能力和音乐能力有联系，文章第二段却说黑人在美国流行音乐中是主力军，然而在数学等方面却默默无闻，因此产生discrepancy。根据前文可推断discrepancy应该是“差距，差异”的意思。故本题选A。

atical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be

connected, but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say

that they quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I

studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathe-matician or scientist, and

four fifths had a close relative who played a musical chil-dren

themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.

Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same r,

it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of

American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics,

science and engineering.

If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related,

how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of

mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while

certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has

happened with a number of well-known black musicians.

It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without

formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music,

piano rather than violin, blues rather than is readily understandable, given

that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the

leisure for long years of formal study in music.

Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular have

played a dispropor-tionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional

and modern.A long string of names comes to mind—Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin,

, Louis Armstrong and so on.

None of this indicates any special innate ability of blacks in the

contrary, it is perfectly consistent with blacks having no more such inborn ability than

anyone else, but being lim-ited to being able to express such ability in narrower

channels than others who have had the money,the time and the formal education to

spread out over a wider range of music, as well as into mathe-matics, science and

engineering.

What has made blacks earn more achievements in popular music than in math,

science and engi-neering?

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have special innate ability in the music field.

are more interested in music than the other three.

do not have innate ability in the other three.

doesn't require formal training while others do. √

解析：细节题。根据第三段One reason is that the development of mathematical

and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling,whlie certain musical

talents can be developed with little or no formal training可知，数学等其他类似学科的发展需要多年的正规学校教育，而音乐不需要接受正规教育。故本题选D。

atical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be

connected, but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say

that they quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I

studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathe-matician or scientist, and

four fifths had a close relative who played a musical chil-dren

themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.

Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same r,

it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of

American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics,

science and engineering.

If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related,

how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of

mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while

certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has

happened with a number of well-known black musicians.

It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without

formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music,

piano rather than violin, blues rather than is readily understandable, given

that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the

leisure for long years of formal study in music.

Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular have

played a dispropor-tionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional

and modern.A long string of names comes to mind—Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin,

, Louis Armstrong and so on.

None of this indicates any special innate ability of blacks in the

contrary, it is perfectly consistent with blacks having no more such inborn ability than

anyone else, but being lim-ited to being able to express such ability in narrower

channels than others who have had the money,the time and the formal education to

spread out over a wider range of music, as well as into mathe-matics, science and

engineering.

What do we know about opera from the passage?

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is disliked by blacks.

requires formal training. √

is more difficult to learn than classical music.

is very popular among rich people.

解析：推断题。根据关键词opera定位到原文第四段It is precisely in those

kinds of music where one can ac-quire great skill without formal training that blacks

have excelled popular music rather than classical music, pianorather than violin,

blues rather than opera可知，对于黑人而言不需要经过正规训练就可以获得极好的音乐技能，包括流行音乐、钢琴和蓝调音乐，所以歌剧属于需要经过正规学习的领域。故本题选B。

atical ability and musical ability may not seem on the surface to be

connected, but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say

that they quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I

studied had a close relative who was an engineer, mathe-matician or scientist, and

four fifths had a close relative who played a musical chil-dren

themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.

Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same r,

it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of

American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics,

science and engineering.

If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related,

how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of

mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while

certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has

happened with a number of well-known black musicians.

It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without

formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music,

piano rather than violin, blues rather than is readily understandable, given

that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the

leisure for long years of formal study in music.

Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular have

played a dispropor-tionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional

and modern.A long string of names comes to mind—Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin,

, Louis Armstrong and so on.

None of this indicates any special innate ability of blacks in the

contrary, it is perfectly consistent with blacks having no more such inborn ability than

anyone else, but being lim-ited to being able to express such ability in narrower

channels than others who have had the money,the time and the formal education to

spread out over a wider range of music, as well as into mathe-matics, science and

engineering.

How can blacks finally achieve greater skills in kinds of music that don't need

formal training?

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have innate ability in these music fields.

spend more time in these limited fields. √

learn them from their ancestors.

practice them through listening to tapes repeatedly.

解析：细节题。根据文章最后一段最后一句可知，黑人天赋并不过人，没有钱，没有时间，无法接受正规教育，只能在有限的空间里发挥自己的才能。故本题选B。

参考译文

表面上数学能力和音乐能力似乎没有什么关系，但是研究这个学科和大脑的人说两者之间存在联系。在我研究的一组聪明但是说话较晚的儿童中，四分之三的孩子近亲中有一位是工程师、数学家或科学家，五分之四的孩子近亲中有一个人会演奏某种乐器。这些孩子通常比较擅长数学、其他分析性学科或音乐。

在这个小组中，黑人、白人和亚裔孩子表现差不多。但是很显然，黑人在美国流行音乐发展中具有超强的代表性，而在譬如数学、科学和工程这样的领域代表人数却严重不足。

如果分析科学和音乐领域所需的能力如此紧密相关，那么怎么会出现这么大的差距呢？原因之一就是数学能力和其他类似能力的发展需要多年的正规学校

教育，而某些音乐才能的发展则只需要极少或者根本不需要任何正规的训练，很多有名的黑人音乐家就是这样。

正是在那些不需要经过正规训练就可以获得极好技能的音乐领域，黑人们在流行音乐上的表现比古典音乐优秀，在钢琴上的表现优于小提琴，在蓝调音乐方面的表现超过歌剧。这种现象很好理解，因为在美国历史上，大多数黑人经济窘迫，或者没有闲暇时间接受长期正规的教育。

黑人不仅在美国流行音乐中享有一席之地，他们在传统和现代爵士乐的发展中也发挥了极大的作用。我能说出一系列人的名字——艾灵顿公爵、斯科特·乔普林、W.C.汉迪、路易斯·阿姆斯特朗、查理·帕克等等。这些并不能说明黑人在音乐方面具有某种天生的才能。相反，这正和黑人不比其他人更有天分的说法完全一致，与其他有钱、有时间、接受正规教育的人相比，他们只能被局限在更加狭隘的空间里发挥自己的才能，而无法涉足更广阔的音乐种类，包括数学、科学和工程这样的领域。

ists have long known a fairly reliable way to extend life span in rodents

and other lab animals: Reduce the amount of calories they eat by 10 percent to 40

percent.

This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life

span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related

r it can do the same in people has been an open an

intriguing new study suggests that in young and middle-aged adults, chronically

restricting calorie intake can have an impact on their health.

In the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and

published this month in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, researchers looked at a

group of 143 healthy men and women who ranged in age from 21 to were

instructed to practice caloric restriction for two could eat the foods they

wanted so long as they cut back on the total amount of food they ate, with the aim

of cutting the calories they consumed by 25 percent.

Many did not achieve that average, the dieters managed to slash about

12 percent of their total calories, or roughly 300 calories a day, the amount in a large

bagel, a few chocolate chip cookies or a small Starbucks Mocha the

group saw many of their cardiovascular and metabolic health markers

improve, even though they were already in the normal range.

They lost weight and body fat Their cholesterol levels improved, their blood

pressure fell slightly,and they had better blood sugar control and less

the same time, a control group of 75 healthy people who did not

practice caloric restriction saw no improvements in any of these markers.

Some of the benefits in the calorie restricted group stemmed from the fact that

they lost a large amount of weight, on average about 16 pounds over the two years

of the the extent to wluch their metabolic health got better was greater

than would have been expected from weight loss alone, suggesting that caloric

restriction might have some unique biological effects on disease path ways in the

body, said William Kraus, the lead author of the studyand a professor of medicine

and cardiology at Duke University.

“We weren't surprised that there were changes,” he said.“But the magnitude

was rather a disease population, there aren't five drugs in

combination that would cause this ag-gregate of an improvement.”

Calorie restriction may be a useful tool for better health and weight loss, but it's

unclear whether the changes in the new study will ultimately translate into longevity

and reductions in chronic disease, said Frank Hu, the chairman of the nutrition

department at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved in

the research.

It can be learned from Paragraph 4 that those who participated in the

study________.

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running high risk of being crapulent

ed normal cardiovascular and metabolic indicators

to limit their total calories intake

been positively affected on their cardiovascular and metabolic health by

two-year calo-ries restriction √

解析：细节题。题干意为：从第四段可以了解到，参考研究的那些人________。根据题干关键词定位到第四段，A项“有大吃大喝的风险”原文未提及。B项“心血管和代谢指标实现了正常”，根据cardiovascular 和metabolic定位，原文already

in the normal range“原本已在正常范围内”，与原文不符。C项“未能限制其总热量摄入”为干扰项，第四段第一句Many did not achieve that goal出现指代词that，指的是没有实现第三段最后一句“摄入热量减少25%”的目标，参与者摄入的热量总体减少了约12%，因此C项错误。D项positively affected与health

markers improve为同义替换，且第三段指出热量限制为期两年。故本题选D。

ists have long known a fairly reliable way to extend life span in rodents

and other lab animals: Reduce the amount of calories they eat by 10 percent to 40

percent.

This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life

span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related

r it can do the same in people has been an open an

intriguing new study suggests that in young and middle-aged adults, chronically

restricting calorie intake can have an impact on their health.

In the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and

published this month in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, researchers looked at a

group of 143 healthy men and women who ranged in age from 21 to were

instructed to practice caloric restriction for two could eat the foods they

wanted so long as they cut back on the total amount of food they ate, with the aim

of cutting the calories they consumed by 25 percent.

Many did not achieve that average, the dieters managed to slash about

12 percent of their total calories, or roughly 300 calories a day, the amount in a large

bagel, a few chocolate chip cookies or a small Starbucks Mocha the

group saw many of their cardiovascular and metabolic health markers

improve, even though they were already in the normal range.

They lost weight and body fat Their cholesterol levels improved, their blood

pressure fell slightly,and they had better blood sugar control and less

the same time, a control group of 75 healthy people who did not

practice caloric restriction saw no improvements in any of these markers.

Some of the benefits in the calorie restricted group stemmed from the fact that

they lost a large amount of weight, on average about 16 pounds over the two years

of the the extent to wluch their metabolic health got better was greater

than would have been expected from weight loss alone, suggesting that caloric

restriction might have some unique biological effects on disease path ways in the

body, said William Kraus, the lead author of the studyand a professor of medicine

and cardiology at Duke University.

“We weren't surprised that there were changes,” he said.“But the magnitude

was rather a disease population, there aren't five drugs in

combination that would cause this ag-gregate of an improvement.”

Calorie restriction may be a useful tool for better health and weight loss, but it's

unclear whether the changes in the new study will ultimately translate into longevity

and reductions in chronic disease, said Frank Hu, the chairman of the nutrition

department at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved in

the research.

Among the changes brought by caloric restriction in the study, which one plays

an important role?

无（分数：1.00）

se in weight. √

ement in cholesterol levels.

blood sugar control.

ly decreased blood pressure and less inflammation.

解析：细节题。题干意为：研究中热量限制带来的变化，哪一个起了重要作用？根据changes定位到第五、六段。第五段介绍了体重、体脂、胆固醇、血压、血糖及炎症方面的具体变化，而第六段第一句Some of the ben- efits in the calorie

restricted group stemmed from the fact that they losta large amount of weight，意为“热量限制组获得的一些健康益处，部分源于他们在参与研究的两年内，体重大幅下降”。由此可知，体重降低在健康方面起了重要作用。B项“胆固醇水平的改善”、C项“更好的血糖控制”和D项“血压略有下降，炎症减少”均不符合题意。故本题选A。

ists have long known a fairly reliable way to extend life span in rodents

and other lab animals: Reduce the amount of calories they eat by 10 percent to 40

percent.

This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life

span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related

r it can do the same in people has been an open an

intriguing new study suggests that in young and middle-aged adults, chronically

restricting calorie intake can have an impact on their health.

In the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and

published this month in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, researchers looked at a

group of 143 healthy men and women who ranged in age from 21 to were

instructed to practice caloric restriction for two could eat the foods they

wanted so long as they cut back on the total amount of food they ate, with the aim

of cutting the calories they consumed by 25 percent.

Many did not achieve that average, the dieters managed to slash about

12 percent of their total calories, or roughly 300 calories a day, the amount in a large

bagel, a few chocolate chip cookies or a small Starbucks Mocha the

group saw many of their cardiovascular and metabolic health markers

improve, even though they were already in the normal range.

They lost weight and body fat Their cholesterol levels improved, their blood

pressure fell slightly,and they had better blood sugar control and less

the same time, a control group of 75 healthy people who did not

practice caloric restriction saw no improvements in any of these markers.

Some of the benefits in the calorie restricted group stemmed from the fact that

they lost a large amount of weight, on average about 16 pounds over the two years

of the the extent to wluch their metabolic health got better was greater

than would have been expected from weight loss alone, suggesting that caloric

restriction might have some unique biological effects on disease path ways in the

body, said William Kraus, the lead author of the studyand a professor of medicine

and cardiology at Duke University.

“We weren't surprised that there were changes,” he said.“But the magnitude

was rather a disease population, there aren't five drugs in

combination that would cause this ag-gregate of an improvement.”

Calorie restriction may be a useful tool for better health and weight loss, but it's

unclear whether the changes in the new study will ultimately translate into longevity

and reductions in chronic disease, said Frank Hu, the chairman of the nutrition

department at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved in

the research.

As a known way to extend life span for animals, caloric restriction________.

无（分数：1.00）

been shown to reduce the cancer risk for human

't good for people's health

be sustained over time to produce benefits for health √

exert instant effect on the health of young and middle-aged adults

解析：细节题。题干意为：作为可延长动物寿命的已知方法，热量限制____。根据caloric restriction和animal定位到原文第一、二段。原文提到，热量限制可以延长动物寿命，降低动物患病的风险，但能否对人类产生同样的作用，是个悬而未决的问题。A项“已被证明可以降低人类患癌症的风险”与原文Whether it can

do the same in people has been an open question不符。根据第二段原文chronically

restricting calorie intake can have an impact on their health，B项“不利于人们的健康”与原文不符。D项“对青年和中年人群的健康产生的影响立竿见影”与chronically“长期地，慢性地”不符。C项“应该持续一段时间，给健康带来益处”是对原文的概括。故本题选C。

ists have long known a fairly reliable way to extend life span in rodents

and other lab animals: Reduce the amount of calories they eat by 10 percent to 40

percent.

This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life

span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related

r it can do the same in people has been an open an

intriguing new study suggests that in young and middle-aged adults, chronically

restricting calorie intake can have an impact on their health.

In the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and

published this month in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, researchers looked at a

group of 143 healthy men and women who ranged in age from 21 to were

instructed to practice caloric restriction for two could eat the foods they

wanted so long as they cut back on the total amount of food they ate, with the aim

of cutting the calories they consumed by 25 percent.

Many did not achieve that average, the dieters managed to slash about

12 percent of their total calories, or roughly 300 calories a day, the amount in a large

bagel, a few chocolate chip cookies or a small Starbucks Mocha the

group saw many of their cardiovascular and metabolic health markers

improve, even though they were already in the normal range.

They lost weight and body fat Their cholesterol levels improved, their blood

pressure fell slightly,and they had better blood sugar control and less

the same time, a control group of 75 healthy people who did not

practice caloric restriction saw no improvements in any of these markers.

Some of the benefits in the calorie restricted group stemmed from the fact that

they lost a large amount of weight, on average about 16 pounds over the two years

of the the extent to wluch their metabolic health got better was greater

than would have been expected from weight loss alone, suggesting that caloric

restriction might have some unique biological effects on disease path ways in the

body, said William Kraus, the lead author of the studyand a professor of medicine

and cardiology at Duke University.

“We weren't surprised that there were changes,” he said.“But the magnitude

was rather a disease population, there aren't five drugs in

combination that would cause this ag-gregate of an improvement.”

Calorie restriction may be a useful tool for better health and weight loss, but it's

unclear whether the changes in the new study will ultimately translate into longevity

and reductions in chronic disease, said Frank Hu, the chairman of the nutrition

department at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved in

the research.

According to William Kraus,________.

无（分数：1.00）

results of the study are not surprising at all

weight losing and caloric restriction are likely to bring special biological

changes

overall improvement in health status caused by limiting caloric intake is

greater than the expected impact by weight loss alone √

five drugs in combination could cause the same changes brought by

cutting calories

解析：细节题。题干意为：根据威廉·克劳斯所说，____。根据人名William

Kraus定位到文章第六、七段。A项“研究结果完全不足为奇”断章取义，原文说热量限制带来的变化不令人吃惊，但变化程度惊人。B项“体重减轻和热量限制都可能带来特殊的生物学变化”，原文suggesting that…in body指出“热量限制可能会对身体的疾病通路产生一些独特的生理影响”，故与原文不符。D项“超过五种药物的组合可能产生与减少热量相同的变化”与原文不符。C项“限制热量引起的健康状况改善大于单独减肥所带来的预期影响”，符合原文metabolic

health got better was greater than would have been expected from weight loss alone。故本题选C。

ists have long known a fairly reliable way to extend life span in rodents

and other lab animals: Reduce the amount of calories they eat by 10 percent to 40

percent.

This strategy, known as caloric restriction, has been shown to increase the life

span of various organisms and reduce their rate of cancer and other age-related

r it can do the same in people has been an open an

intriguing new study suggests that in young and middle-aged adults, chronically

restricting calorie intake can have an impact on their health.

In the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and

published this month in the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, researchers looked at a

group of 143 healthy men and women who ranged in age from 21 to were

instructed to practice caloric restriction for two could eat the foods they

wanted so long as they cut back on the total amount of food they ate, with the aim

of cutting the calories they consumed by 25 percent.

Many did not achieve that average, the dieters managed to slash about

12 percent of their total calories, or roughly 300 calories a day, the amount in a large

bagel, a few chocolate chip cookies or a small Starbucks Mocha the

group saw many of their cardiovascular and metabolic health markers

improve, even though they were already in the normal range.

They lost weight and body fat Their cholesterol levels improved, their blood

pressure fell slightly,and they had better blood sugar control and less

the same time, a control group of 75 healthy people who did not

practice caloric restriction saw no improvements in any of these markers.

Some of the benefits in the calorie restricted group stemmed from the fact that

they lost a large amount of weight, on average about 16 pounds over the two years

of the the extent to wluch their metabolic health got better was greater

than would have been expected from weight loss alone, suggesting that caloric

restriction might have some unique biological effects on disease path ways in the

body, said William Kraus, the lead author of the studyand a professor of medicine

and cardiology at Duke University.

“We weren't surprised that there were changes,” he said.“But the magnitude

was rather a disease population, there aren't five drugs in

combination that would cause this ag-gregate of an improvement.”

Calorie restriction may be a useful tool for better health and weight loss, but it's

unclear whether the changes in the new study will ultimately translate into longevity

and reductions in chronic disease, said Frank Hu, the chairman of the nutrition

department at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved in

the research.

What can be inferred from the passage?

无（分数：1.00）

g calories can be a useful tool for weight loss.

people might find calorie restriction feasible.

question that this study cannot answer is whether calorie restriction can

extend human life,just as it extends the life of other animals. √

is difficult for people to practice calorie restriction because many of

participants did not achieve that goal.

解析：推断题。题干意为：从文章中可以推断出什么。A项“减少热量可以成为减肥的有用方法”是原文最后一段的内容，不是推断。B项“有些人可能会发现热量限制可行”原文并未提及相关内容。D项“人们很难实施热量限制，因为许多参与者没有实现这一目标”，原文只提到研究原定的热量控制目标很多人未达到，并没有体现因果关系。C项“研究无法回答的问题是，热量限制能否像延长其他动物的寿命一样，延长人类的寿命”，根据文章第二段has been an open

question及文章最后一段胡炳长(Frank Hu)表述中的unclear可知，此项为合理推断。故本题选C。

参考译文

科学家们早就知道一种可以延长啮齿动物和其他实验动物寿命的可靠方法：将它们摄入的热量减少10%至40%。

这种被称为热量限制的策略已被证实可以延长各种动物的寿命并降低癌症和其他与年龄有关的疾病发病率。它是否同样适用于人类尚不明确。但一项有趣的新研究表明，在青年和中年人群中，长期限制热量摄入会对他们的健康产生影响。

在这项由美国国家卫生研究院资助并于本月发表在《柳叶刀糖尿病与内分泌学》期刊上的新研究中，研究人员对143名健康的男性和女性进行了观察，他们的年龄介于21岁到50岁。他们按照指示，在两年的时间里限制热量摄入。他们可以吃想吃的食物，只要他们减少所吃食物的总量，目标是使摄入的热量减少25%。

许多人没有实现这一目标。平均而言，节食者的总热量摄入大约减少了12%.或大约每天减少300卡的热量，相当于一个大百吉圈，一些巧克力饼干或一小杯星巴克摩卡星冰乐的热量。但这组人中，许多人的心血管和代谢健康指标均有所改善，即使他们的指标原本就在正常范围内。

他们的体重和体脂都下降了，胆固醇水平得到改善，血压略有下降，并且他们的血糖控制得更好，炎症也减少了。同时，一组共75名没有限制热量的健康人在这些指标中并没有任何改善。

热量限制组的人们获得的一些健康益处，部分源于他们在参与研究的两年内，体重大幅下降，大约平均减轻了16磅。但该研究的主要作者、杜克大学医学和心脏病学教授威廉·克劳斯表示，他们的新陈代谢健康状况的改善要远远超过单纯减肥的预期水平，这表明热量限制可能会对身体的疾病通路产生一些独特的生理影响。

“我们并不是因为产生了变化而感到惊讶，”他说，“但变化相当惊人。在疾

病人群中，任何五种药物一齐服用都不会带来这么大的改善。”

未参与该研究的哈佛大学陈曾熙公共卫生学院营养学系主任胡炳长称，热量限制可能是改善健康和减轻体重的有用方法，但尚不清楚这项新研究证实的变化最终是否能延长寿命，减少慢性病。