Passage One One of the strongest reasons for the raising of the school leaving age has been that it will bring us nearer to the ideal of “equal opportunity”. Many people like to think of our present system of schooling as providing plenty of steps up the ladder of success for clever children. It would be good to think that no one who is really bright can fail to become successful when the state system is apparently so thorough. It is obvious, for instance, that many children from less rich homes reach university or do well in other ways. Unfortunately, we now have plenty of evidence that many children of every level of ability do much less well than they could. For instance, during the years of national military service it was possible to test the intelligence of all males aged between 18 and 20. Half of those soldiers who were placed in the two highest ability groups had left schools at 15. It has also been shown that percentage of working class children going to university is almost the same now as it was in 1939. One study of 5,000 children from birth to 21 years old indicated that up to half the bright pupils from working class homes left school when they reached 16 years old. Moreover, there is no difference in intelligence between the sexed, but far more boys than girls stay in education after 16. It is clear form this and much other evidence that many children are still leaving school too early to benefit form the prizes----money, social respectability, and interesting jobs, which higher education gives. It is clear too that the reasons why such children leave have much to do with their social circumstances. Their parents often need the extra money another wage-earner can bring in; they do not value education for itself because their own was probably dull and unhappy. It is not so much that they force their sons and daughters to leave school, rather that they tend to say, “it’s up to you.”
This article shows that equal opportunity in education _______.
is a thing of the past B. has not yet been achieved
is there for those who merit it D. has greatly improved our society
ID：9121-12340 Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the one that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding answer on ANSWER SHEET. In the People’s Republic of China the odd pre-quake behavior of horses and other animals__36__successfully to warn people that earthquakes__37___. Recently, a group of American geologists and geophysicists visited China and listened with great interest__38__ scientists there who explained how they have been able to predict many earthquakes in the past three years. The American scientists compared the___39__ with the unique Chinese program__40 __the impact of Chinese acupuncture ___41___ Western medicine. The Chinese scientist use ___42 __ but they also monitor strange signals such as various ground noises, the fluctuation of well-water levels, and the strange behavior of animals. The results are quite interesting. Chinese seismologists, for example, ___43 __ predicted two magnitude 6.9 quakes near the China-Burma border on May 29, 1976. The seismologists _ 44 __ that their predictions have been so precise that they were able to evacuate many of their people before an earthquake occurred, thus __45__thousands of lives. __46___ , the Chinese experts also admit that there have been some false alarms. American scientists__47___ stories of unusual pre-quake animal behavior before, but they ___48___ them too seriously until their recent visit to China. “Maybe there’s something to it.” said Jack Everndon, a California scientist. “We need some kind of short-term warning. We need something.” He didn’t mention the kind of research he may be considering, “Some of us are thinking it’s __49___ enough to give it a serious look,” he commented. “Two years ago we ___50__ that.”
ID：9121-12982（本题为引用材料试题，请根据材料回答以下问题） It can be inferred from the passage that apologizing properly is ________. A) a social issue calling for immediate attention B) not necessary among family members C) a sign of social progress D) not as simple as it seems
ID：9121-12831 The local government tried its best to ensure each of its citizens a _________ supply of food at regular intervals(时间间隔). A. consistent B. continual C. continuous D. numerous
ID：9121-12791（本题为引用材料试题，请根据材料回答以下问题） The passage might be entitled "______." A. How to Overcome Cultural Myopia B. Behavioral Patterns and Cultural Background C. Harms of Cultural Myopia D. Cultural Myopia-A Deep-rooted Collective Neurosis
