Part A

　　Directions:

　　Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A],[B], [C] or [D]. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)

　　Text 1

　　It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.

　　Mr. Koziatek is part of something pioneering. He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization, but practical. When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike Chain?

　　As Koziatek know, there is learning in just about everything. Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum. They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.

　　But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice. Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority. School in the family of vocational education “have that stereotype...that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,” he says.

　　On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated. More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rightfully so.

　　But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy needs.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens moredoors.Buteven now,54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.

　　In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.

　　Koziatek’s school is a wake-up call. When education becomes one-size-fits-all,it risks overlooking a nation’s diversity of gifts.

　　21.A broken bike chain is mentioned to show students’ lack of.

　　A.academic training

　　B.practical ability

　　C.pioneering spirit

　　D.mechanical memorization

　　22.There exists the prejudice that vocational education is for kids who.

　　A.have a stereotyped mind

　　B.have no career motivation

　　C.are financially disadvantaged

　　D.are not academically successful

　　23.we can infer from Paragraph 5 that high school graduates.

　　A.used to have more job opportunities

　　B.used to have big financial concerns

　　C.are entitled to more educational privileges

　　D.are reluctant to work in manufacturing

　　24.The headlong push into bachelors degrees for all.

　　A.helps create a lot of middle-skill jobs

　　B.may narrow the gap in working-class jobs

　　C.indicates the overvaluing of higher education

　　D.is expected to yield a better-trained workforce

　　25.The author’s attitude toward Koziatek’s school can be described as.

　　A.tolerant

　　B.cautious

　　C.supportive

　　D.disappointed