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1、 2022年12月英语六级模拟试题：长篇阅读Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each par
2、agraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2./PPThe Great Charter Tryout A Long before Sci Academy, a charter school in New Orleans, had graduated its first senior class, the school was being heaped with accolades ( 赞扬). In September 2022
3、, when Sci Academy was just two years old, its 200 excited students-then all freshmen and sophomores-filed into Greater St. Stephen Baptist church, next door to the school. Together with local dignitaries ( 显要人物 ), journalists, and a brass band, the students watched on huge screens as the leaders of
4、 six charter schools from around the country appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. At the end of the show, they watched as Oprah handed each charter-school leaderincluding Ben Marcovitz, Sci Academy”s foundera $1 million check. B Sci Academy is a flagship charter school and a model of the new data-dri
5、ven, business-infused approach to education that has won its worship in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina in 2022, education reformers swept away what remained of the traditional public schools in what had been one of the nation”s lowest- performing districts. In their place, charters promised ch
6、oice and increased accountability( 负责制 ). More than 75 percent of New Orleans kids landed in schools controlled by the so-called Recovery School District, which was heavily dominated by charter schools. C This transformation of the New Orleans educational system may turn out to be the most significa
7、nt national development in education since desegregation, wrote Neerav Kingsland, the CEO of New Schools for New Orleans, the city”s leading venture-philanthropy group incubating local charter schools, a year ago. New Orleans students have access to educational opportunities that are far superior to
8、 any in recent memory. D But eight years after Hurricane Katrina, there is evidence that the picture is far more complicated. Seventy- nine percent of RSD charters are still rated D or F by the Louisiana Department of Education. Sci is one of two RSD high schools to earn a B; there are no A-rated op
9、en-admission schools. In a school system with about 42,000 mostly poor African-American kids, every year thousands are out of school at any given time- because they are on suspension, have dropped out, or are incarcerated. Even at successful schools, such as the highly regarded Sci Academy, large nu
10、mbers of students never make it to graduation, and others are unlikely to make it through college. E Figuring out what has taken place in the New Orleans schools is not just a matter of interest to local residents. From cities like New York to towns like Muskegon Heights, Michigan, market-style refo
11、rms have been widely considered as the answer to America”s educational woes. New Orleans tells us a lot about what these reforms look like in practice. And the current reality of the city”s schools should be enough to give pause to even the most passionate charter supporters. F With its chain-link f
12、ence and campus of module-like buildings-the result of a continuing post-Hurricane Katrina building shortage-Sci Academy doesn”t look much like a model school. Freshmen, wearing the polo shirts and khakis of the school uniform, are required to walk along straight red lines that snake through the sch
13、ool”s breezeways. Placards bearing slogans, such as No Short Cuts; No Excuses and Go Above and Beyond, hang overhead. G Everything at Sci Academy is carefully designed to maintain discipline and focus on the school”s principal mission, which is to get every student into college. Each morning, at 8 a
14、.m., the teachers, almost all white and in their 20s, gather for a rousing thigh-slapping, hand-clapping, rap-chanting staff revival meeting, the beginning of what will be, for most, a 14- to 16-hour workday. Students arrive a half hour later, and if asked Why are you here? and What will it take? ar
15、e expected to respond To learn followed by a recitation of the school”s six core values: achievement, respect, responsibility, perseverance, teamwork, and enthusiasm. H Both curriculum and behavior are elaborately arranged. As kids file into class, a teacher hands them their entry ticket, a survey t
16、hat helps determine how much students retained from the previous class. An exit ticket distributed at the end of each class establishes how much kids have absorbed. Information from the exit tickets, as well as attendance, demerits for bad behavior, and Sci bucks for good behavior, are keyed into the Sci software system by teachers every nigh
