Passage Two

　　The estimates of the numbers of home-schooled children vary widely. The U. S. Department of Education estimates there are 250,000 to 350,000 home-schooled children in the country. Home school advocates put the number much higher at about a million。

　　Home school advocates take a harsh attitude toward home schoolers, perceiving their actions as the ultimate slap in the face for public education and a damaging move for the children. Home schoolers harbor few kind words for public schools, charging shortcomings that range from lack of religious perspective in the curriculum to a herdlike approach to teaching children。

　　Yet, as public school officials realize they stand little to gain by remaining hostile to the home school population, and as home schoolers realize they can reap benefits from public schools, these hard lines seem to be softening a bit。

　　Public schools and home schoolers have moved closer to tolerance and, in some cases even cooperation. Says John Marshall, an education official," we are becoming relatively tolerant of home schoolers. The idea is, let's give the kids access to public school so they'll see it's not as terrible as they've been told, and they'll want to come back." Perhaps, but don't count on it, say home school advocates。

　　Home schoolers oppose the system because they have strong convictions that their approach to education--whether fueled by religious enthusiasm or the individual child's interest and natural pace--is the best. "The bulk of home schoolers just want to be left alone。” Says Enge Cannon, associate director of the National Center For Home Education. She says home schoolers choose that path for a variety of reasons, but religion plays a role 85 percent of the time。

　　Professor Van Galen breaks home schoolers into two groups. Some home schoolers want their children to learn not only traditional subject matter but also "strict religious doctrine and a conservative political and social perspective". Not incidentally, they also want their children to learn--both intellectually and emotionally--that the family is the most important institution in society." Other home schoolers contend "not so much that the schools teach heresy, but that schools teach whatever they teach inappropriately." Van Galen writes. "These parents are highly independent and strive to take responsibility for their own lives within a society that they define as bureaucratic and inefficient。

　　57. Which of the following statements is true?

　　A) Home schoolers engage private teachers to provide additional education for their children。

　　B) Home schoolers don't go to school but are educated at home by their parents。

　　C) Home schoolers educate their children at home instead of sending them to school。

　　D) Home schoolers advocate combining public education with home schooling。

　　58. Public schools are softening their position on home schooling because。

　　A) they want to show their tolerance for different teaching systems

　　B) there isn't much they can do to change the present situation

　　C) public schools have so many problems that they cannot offer proper education for all children

　　D) home schooling provides a new variety of education for children

　　59. Most home schoolers' opposition to public education stems from their ______。

　　A) concern with the cost involved

　　B) worry about the inefficiency of public schools

　　C) devotion to religion

　　D) respect fro the interests of individuals

　　60. From the passage we know that home school advocates think that ______。

　　A) home schooling is superior and therefore they will not easily give in

　　B) their increased cooperation with public school will bring about the improvement of public education

　　C) things in public schools are not so bad as has often been said

　　D) their tolerance of public education will attract more kids to public schools

　　61. It can be concluded from Van Galen's research that some home schoolers believe that ______。

　　A) teachers in public schools are not as responsible as they should be

　　B) public schools take up a herdlike approach to teaching children

　　C) public schools are the source of bureaucracy and inefficiency in modern society

　　D) public schools cannot provide education that is good enough for their children

　　Part Ⅴ Cloze

　　Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function of   (62)   is partly to   (63)   things or processes with. no names in ordinary English, and partly to secure greater exactness in terminology.   (64)  , they save time, for it is much more   (65)  , to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are very   (66)    included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather   (67)   the outskirts of the English language than actually within its borders。

　　Different occupations, however, differ   (68)   in their special vocabularies. It   (69)   largely of native words, or of borrowed words that have   (70)   themselves into the very fiber of our language.   (71)  , though highly technical in many details, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more generally   (72)  , than most other technical terms.   (73)   every vocation still possesses a large   (74)   of technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even   (75)   educated people. And the proportion has been much   (76)   in the last fifty years. Most of the newly   (77)   terms are   (78)   to special discussion, and seldom get into general literature or conversation. Yet no profession is nowadays, as all professions once   (79)  , a close federation. What is called "popular science" makes everybody   (80)   with modern view and recent discoveries. Any important experiment,   (81)   made in a remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspaper, and everybody is soon talking about it. Thus our common speech is always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace。

　　62. A) which            B) what              C) who              D) whom

　　63. A) describe         B) talk about        C) designate        D) indicate

　　64. A) Consequently     B) In contrast       C) However          D) Besides

　　65. A) economical       B) economic          C) thrift           D) economized

　　66. A) properly         B) possibly          C) probably         D) potentially

　　67. A) in               B) on                C) at               D) beyond

　　68. A) largely          B) widely            C) generally        D) extensively

　　69. A) constitutes      B) comprises         C) composes         D) consists

　　70. A) worked           B) made              C) taken            D) brought

　　71. A) However          B) Because           C) Hence            D) In addition

　　72. A) understood       B) considered        C) known            D) thought

　　73. A) Therefore        B) Yet               C) In contrast      D) So

　　74. A) series           B) body              C) set              D) range

　　75. A) for              B) as                C) to               D) among

　　76. A) decreased        B) diminished        C) increasing       D) increased

　　77. A) made             B) coined            C) produced         D) formed

　　78. A) related          B) addressing        C) confined         D) connected

　　79. A) is               B) are               C) was              D) were

　　80. A) associated       B) known             C) acquainted       D) connected

　　81. A) though           B) when              C) as               D) since

　　Part Ⅵ  Translation (5 minutes)

　　82. We are always advised that ______________________(从书本汲取知识的最有效办法是在页边空白处做有见地笔记)。

　　83. In this information age, ______________________(人们的流动性比任何时候都大，这也许就是为什么移动电话十分普及的原因)。

　　84. We are told that ______________________(老师在评价一篇文章并打分时，可能是根据总体印象而不是根据仔细的分析)。

　　85. It is common sense that ______________________(几乎每个孩子都曾梦想去太空旅游，体会一下在失重环境下生活的样子

　　86. The journalist got promoted ______________________(因为他设法抓住了一个机会，独家采访了总统并上了头条)。

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