[C] we could not have literate, educated workforce.
[D] we didn't take effective measures to improve our education.
Passage 4
Marriage is still a popular institution in the United States, but divorce is becoming almost as \Most American people get married, but at the present time, fifty percent of American marriages end up in divorce. However, four out of five divorced people do not stay single. They get married a second time to new partners. Sociologists tell us that in the next century, most American people will marry three or four times in one life-time. Alvin Toffler, an American sociologist, calls this new social form serial marriages. In his book Future Shock, Toffler gives many reasons for this change in American marriage. In modern society, people's lives don't stay the same for very long. American frequently change their jobs, their homes, and their circle of friends. So the person who was a good husband or wife ten years ago is sometimes not as good ten years later. After some years of marriage, a husband or wife can feel that their lives have become very different, and they don't share the same interests any more. For this reason, Toffler says, people in the twenty-first century will not plan to marry only one person for an entire lifetime. They will plan to stay married to one person for perhaps five or ten years, and then marry another. Most Americans will expect to have a \
46. The word \
[A] a social practice
[B] a social organization
[C] a state law
[D] an established habit
47. In the United States ____.
[A] marriage is less popular than divorce now
[B] remaining single is becoming more and more popular now
[C] divorce is as popular as it was
[D] remarriage is getting more popular now
48. The percentage of remarriage among divorced American is ____.
[A] fifty percent
[B] eighty percent
[C] forty percent
[D] ninety percent
49. One of the reasons for the change in American marriages is ____.
[A] difference in interests
[B] difference in making friends
[C] difference in choosing jobs
[D] difference in family background
50. In the twenty-first century, American's attitude towards remarried people will be ____.
[A] suspicious
[B] critical
[C] fussy
[D] approving
Passage 5
You do not need every word to understand the meaning of what you read. In fact, too much emphasis on individual words both slows your speed
and reduces your comprehension. You will be given the chance to prove this to yourself, but meanwhile, let us look at the implications.
First, any habit which slows clown your silent reading to the speed at which you speak, or read aloud, is inefficient. If you point to each word as you read, or move your head, or form the words with your lips, you read poorly. Less obvious habits also hold back reading efficiency. One is \throat or vocal cords; another is \
These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago. The beginning reader is learning how letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together. Your reading purpose is quite different; it is to understand meaning.
It has been estimated that up to 75% of the words in English sentences are not really necessary for conveying the meaning. The secret of silent reading is to seek out those key words and' phrases which carry the thought, and to pay less attention to words which exist only for the sake of grammatical completeness.
An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud. Unconsciously perhaps, he takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at a time. If he \or \words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis.
51. This passage is mainly about ____.
[A] improving eye movements
[B] reading more wisely
[C] eliminating poor reading
habits
[D] concentrating while reading
52. Saying each word to yourself as you read ____.
[A] improves comprehension
[B] increases reading speed
[C] prevents understanding
[D] hinders reading efficiency
53. Your reading purpose should be ____.
[A] to understand all the words
[B] to make fewer eye movements [C] to understand meaning
[D] to understand the grammatical structures
54. It has been estimated that up to 75% of words in English sentences are ____.
[A] grammatically unnecessary
[B] essential to the meaning
[C] not absolutely essential to the grasp of meaning
[D] reread more than once by poor readers
55. Efficient readers usually ____.
[A] move their heads quickly
[B] take in whole phrases at a
time
[C] point at key words
[D] miss some important points for speed
完形填空
Directions:In this section, you will read a passage with some blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then type the corresponding letter on the web page.[题数:20;分数:20分;参考时间:15分0秒]
题 56 - 75
Passage 1
Have you 56 asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably say that they go 57 their own language and other languages, arithmetic, history, science and 58 subjects. That is quite true; but why do they learn these things? And are these things 59 that they learn at school?
We 60 our children to school to 61 them for the time 62 they will be big and will have to work 63 themselves. Nearly all they study at school has some 64 use in their life, but is that the only reason 65 they go to school?
There is 66 in education than just learning facts. We go to school 67 . All to learn how to learn, 68 when we have 69 school we can continue to learn. A man who really knows 70 will always be successful, because 71 he has to do something new which he has never had to do 72 , he will rapidly teach himself how to do it in the best 73 . The uneducated person, 74 , is probably unable to do something new, or does it badly. The purpose of schools, therefore, is not just to teach languages, arithmetic, etc., 75 to teach pupils the way to learn.
56.
[A] either [B] whether [C] ever
[D] as well 57.
[A] learn [B] to learn
[C] and learning [D] and to learn 58.
[A] all another [B] the other all [C] all the other
[D] the all other 59.
[A] those [B] ones [C] every [D] all
60.