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to stop. My other friend stayed with her while I continued on. I never saw them again either.”
“The main deck was chaotic. I found myself caught up in the crowd around lifeboat C and was pushed in as it was slowly being lowered. People were panicking. We heard many pistol shots, and could see people running hopelessly up and down the decks. One woman jumped towards Lifeboat C as it was being lowered. Her hands reached out desperately, but she missed. She looked back at me, her face frozen in fear, falling…falling…falling towards the icy water below. I heard what sounded like distant thunder; the boilers in the bottom of the ship exploding as they filled with water. Some in the lifeboat were crying. There was nothing anyone could do. We just kept on going.”
“We didn?t row much, just far enough so we wouldn?t be pulled down with the sinking ship. Then we stopped. I watched as the last few tried to save themselves, jumping from the upright stern of the ship, falling like stones some 300 meters into the freezing water. The lights of the ship started to go under, and then soundlessly, perhaps a mile away, it just went down. It was gone. The water had swallowed the massive ship in one big gulp. They told me the people in the water were singing, but I knew they were screaming. The Atlantic, which had just taken the lives of 1500 people, lay silent, still, satisfied. The sky was very black, the stars were very bright. There was nothing left to do but wait … and hope. We started to sing to pass the time. At about 9 a.m., we caught sight of the Carpathia, which had come to rescue us, and in silence, we rowed. The night the Titanic sank had given way to morning. It was finally over”.
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76. How old was she when the actual survivor of Titanic gave the final interview in 1974?
A. 20. B. 74. C. 65. D. 82.
77. Why did Margaret leave the 3rd class cabin?
A. Because it was too crowded in the 3rd class cabin to get any sleep. B. Because she wanted to dance in the main ballroom.
C. Because she was interested in exploring the rest of the ship. D. Because the sound of morning doves was calling her name.
78. According to Paragraph 4, how did Margaret make her way to the deck?
A. She opened the gate leading to the 2nd class deck with the help of her friends. B. She swam out when water reached the deck of the 3rd class cabins. C. She and her friends followed the crowd and ran out. D. She ran to a rope ladder in the aft deck and climbed up.
79. What happened to one of the women jumping onto Lifeboat C?
A. She jumped precisely into the lifeboat.
B. She reached out her hand for help and someone caught it. C. She missed and fell into the water. D. She asked Margaret to help her.
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80. In the last moments of the sinking ship, which was NOT a reaction of the people? A. Those in the lifeboats could do nothing but watch.
B. Some were trying one last jump but fell into the sea like stones. C. Those in the water were singing and praying to God. D. Those on the lifeboat started to sing to pass the time.
Passage Two
Questions 81 to 85 are based on the following passage.
Various studies have shown that increased spending on education has not led to measurable improvements in learning. Between 1980 and 2008，staff and teachers at U.S. public schools grew roughly twice as fast as students. Yet students showed no additional learning in achievement tests.
Universities show similar trends of increased administration personnel and costs without greater learning, as documented in Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa?s recent book Academically Adrift：Limited Learning on College Campuses.
A survey shows that 63% of employers say that recent college graduates don?t have the skills they need to succeed and 25% of employers say that entry-level writing skills are lacking.
Some simplistically attribute the decline in our public education system to the drain（带走）of the skilled students by private schools, but far more significant events were at work.
Public schools worked well until about the 1970s. In fact, until that time, public schools provided far better education than private ones. It was the underperforming students who were thrown out of public schools and went to private ones.
A prominent reason public schools did well was that many highly qualified women had few options for working outside the house other than being teachers or nurses. They accepted relatively low pay, difficult working conditions, and gave their very best.
Having such a large supply of talented women teachers meant that society could pay less for their services. Women?s liberation opened up new professional opportunities for women, and, over time, some of the best left teaching as a career option, bringing about a gradual decline in the quality of schooling.
Also around that time, regulations, government, and unions came to dictate pay, prevent adjustments, and introduce bureaucratic（官僚的）standard for advancement. Large education bureaucracies and unions came to dominate the landscape, confusing activity with achievement. Bureaucrats regularly rewrite curriculums, talk nonsense about the theories of education, and require ever more administrators. The end result had been that, after all the spending, students have worse math and reading skills than both their foreign peers and earlier generations spending far less on education — as all the accumulating evidence now documents.
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81. What do we learn from various studies on America?s public education? A. Achievement tests have failed to truly reflect the quality of teaching.
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B. Public schools lack the resources to compete with private schools. C. Little improvement in education has resulted from increased spending. D. The number of students has increased much faster than that of teachers.
82. How do some people explain the decline in public education? A. Government investment does not meet school?s needs. B. Skilled students are moving to private schools. C. Qualified teachers are far from adequately paid. D. Training of students? basic skills is neglected.
83. What was a significant contributor to the past glory of public schools? A. Well-behaved students. B. Efficient administration.
C. Talented women teachers. D. Generous pay for teachers.
84. Why did some of the best women teachers leave teaching?
A. New career opportunities were made available to them by women?s liberation. B. Higher academic requirements made it difficult for them to stay in their jobs. C. They were unhappy with the bureaucratic administration in their schools. D. The heavy teaching loads left them little time and energy for family life.
85. What does the author think is one of the results of government involvement in education?
A. Increasing emphasis on theories of education. B. Highly standardized teaching methods. C. Students? improved academic performance. D. An ever-growing number of administrators. 得 分 Part IV Translation（每小题2分，共10分）
Directions: Translate the following the Chinese in the brackets into
English.
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86. All three children have equality in our family — they _______________________ ______________________（都被同等对待）.
87. I came out for the fine weather and ________________________________（还有部分原因是我想散散步）.
88. I would never lose contact with my friends. Furthermore, I would __________________________（无论何时，只要方便就会打电话）. 89. __________________________________（我们不仅写关于政治和战争的话题）, we also wrote about our teenage frustrations and anxieties.
90. With ____________________________________（他们的儿子在上一所国外的
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大学）, the parents have some financial problems now and then. 得 分 Part V Writing（10分）
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a 4-paragraph composition on the topic: The Harm of Cheating in Exams. The following structure is for your reference. You should write at least 120 words. Topic The Harm of Cheating in Exams Paragraph 1 A Brief Description of Phenomenon（现象）of Cheating in Exams Paragraph 2 2-3 Harmful Effects That Cheating in Exams Has on Individuals Paragraph 3 2-3 Harmful Effects That Cheating in Exams Has on Society Paragraph 4 Suggested Measures for Eliminating（杜绝）Cheating in Exams 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡上作答。
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