Ⅱ. 完形填空 One topic is rarely mentioned in all the talk of improving standards in our schools: the almost complete failure of foreign-language teaching. As a French graduate who has taught for more than twenty-five years, I have some ___21_____ of why the failure is so total. 22 the faults already found out in the education system as a whole, there have been several serious 23 which have a direct effect on language teaching. The first is the removal from the curriculum (课程) of the thorough teaching of English 24¬¬¬ . Pupils now do not know a verb from a noun or the subject of a sentence from its object. Another important error is mixed-ability teaching, or teaching in ability groups so 25 that the most able groups are 26 and are bored while the least able are lost and 27 bored. Progress depends on memory, and pupils start to forget immediately they stop having 28 lessons. This is why many people who attended French lessons at school have forgotten it a few years later. Most American schools have accepted what is necessary and 29 modern languages, even Spanish, from the curriculum. Perhaps it is time for Britain to do the same, and stop 30 resources on a subject which few pupils want or need. 21. A. question B. evidence C. idea D. knowledge 22. A. Due to B. In addition to C. Instead of D. In spite of
23. A. errors B. situations C. systems D. methods 24. A. vocabulary B. culture C. grammar D. sentences 25. A. wide B. similar C. separate D. unique 26. A. kept out B. turned down C. held back D. left behind 27. A. surprisingly B. individually C. equally D. hardly 28. A. extra B. traditional C. basic D. regular 29. A. restored B. absorbed C. prohibited D. remove 30. A. wasting B. focusing C. exploiting D. sharing Ⅲ. 语法填空 When prices are low, people will buy more, and when prices are high, they will buy __(1)__ (little). Every shopkeeper knows this. According to the economic point of view, changes in the prices of goods cause changes __(2)__ supply and demand. __(3)__ we all know, people buy fewer goods as the price goes __(4)__. On the contrary, a decrease in price causes __(5)__ increase in demand. Business firms look for the perfect price at __(6)__ the largest profit can __(7)__ (make). In doing so, they must carry out a lot of research on the market to have an accurate estimation of the people’s demand and their __(8)__ (purchase) power so that they can produce the exact amount of goods and price __(9)__ goods properly. __(10)__ there will be no profit for them to make. Ⅳ. 阅读理解 A A Frenchman went to a small Italian town and was staying with his wife at the best hotel there. One night, he went out for a walk alone. It was late and the small street was dark and quiet. Suddenly he felt someone behind him. He turned his head and saw an Italian young man who quickly walked past him. The man was nearly out of sight when the Frenchman suddenly found that his watch was gone. He thought that it must be the Italian who had taken his watch. He decided to follow him and get back the watch. Soon the Frenchman caught up with the Italian. Neither of them understood the other’s language. The Frenchman frightened the Italian with his fist(拳头) and pointed at the Italian’s watch. In the end the Italian gave up his watch to the Frenchman. When he returned to the hotel, the Frenchman told his wife what had happened. He was greatly surprised when his wife pointed to the watch on the table. Now he realized that by mistake he had robbed the watch and it was the Italian’s. 1. The Frenchman went to a small Italian town _______. A. alone B. with his wife C. with his friend D. with an Italian 2. One night he went out for _______ alone. A. a ride B. a walk C. a drink D. rest 3. Suddenly he found his______ was gone. A. watch B. money C. book D. ring 4. The Italian gave up his watch to him at last because ________. A. he had stolen the watch from the Frenchman. B. he understood what the Frenchman wanted C. he had picked up the watch on his w ay from work D. he was afraid of the Frenchman 5. Who was robbed of the watch on earth? A. The Frenchman was. B. The Italian was. C. Both of them was. D. Neither of them was. B But I wonder about my Momma sometimes, and all the other Negro (blacks) mothers who got up at 6 a.m. to go to the white man’s house with sacks over their shoes because it was so wet and cold. I wonder how they made it. They worked very hard for the man, they made his breakfast and they scrubbed his floors and they took care of his babies. They didn’t have too much time for us. I wonder about my Momma, who walked out of a white woman’s clean house at midnight and came back to her own where the lights had been out for three months, and the pipes were frozen and the wind came in through the holes in the wall. She has to make deals with the rats: leave some food out for them so they wouldn’t bite the doors or the babies. The roaches (蟑螂) oh, here, were just like part of the family! I wonder how she felt telling those white kids she took care of to brush their teeth after they ate, to wash their hands after they finished their bath. She could never tell her own kids because there wasn’t soap or water back home. I wonder how my Momma felt when we came home from school with a list of vitamins and pills the school nurse said we had to have. Momma would cry all night, and then go out and spend most of the rent money for pills. A week lat
