【題目】 Americans have always been ambivalent in their attitudes toward education. On the one hand, free and universal public education was seen as necessary in a democracy, for how else would citizens learn how to govern themselves in a responsible way? On the other hand, America was always a country that offered financial opportunities for which education was not needed: on the road from rags to riches, schooling-beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic-was an unnecessary detour.

Even today, it is still possible for people to achieve financial success without much education, but the number of situations in which this is possible is decreasing. In today's more complex world, the opportunities for financial success is closely related to the need for education, especially higher education.

Our society is rapidly becoming one whose chief product is information, and dealing with this information requires more and more specialized education. In other words, we grow up learning more and more about fewer and fewer subjects.

In the future, this trend is likely to continue. Tomorrow's world will be even more complex than today's world, and, to manage this complexity, even more specialized education will be needed.

【1】The topic treated in this passage is _____.

A.education in generalB.Americans' attitudes

C.higher educationD.American education

【2】Americans' attitudes toward education have always been _____.

A.certainB.contradictoryC.ambitiousD.unclear

【3】Today, financial success is closely related to the need for _____.

A.higher educationB.public education

C.responsible citizensD.learning the basics

【4】It can be inferred from the third paragraph that _____.

A.information is our only productB.education in the future will be specialized

C.we are entering an age of informationD.we are living in an age of information

【5】Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A.The History of American Education.B.The Need for Specialized Education.

C.The Future of the American Educational System.D.Attitudes toward American Education.

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】A

【4】B

【5】D

【解析】

這是一篇說(shuō)明文。文章主要說(shuō)明了美國(guó)人對(duì)待教育的態(tài)度一直是很矛盾的，即使在今天，人們?nèi)匀挥锌赡茉诓皇芙逃那闆r下取得經(jīng)濟(jì)上的成功，但是這種情況的數(shù)量正在減少。而社會(huì)正在迅速成為一個(gè)主要產(chǎn)品是信息的社會(huì)，由此可預(yù)測(cè)未來(lái)的教育會(huì)更加專業(yè)化。

【1】

主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一段中Americans have always been ambivalent in their attitudes toward education.可知美國(guó)人對(duì)待教育的態(tài)度一直是矛盾的。結(jié)合文章還說(shuō)明了即使在今天，人們?nèi)匀挥锌赡茉诓皇芙逃那闆r下，取得經(jīng)濟(jì)上的成功，但是這種情況的數(shù)量正在減少。而社會(huì)正在迅速成為一個(gè)主要產(chǎn)品是信息的社會(huì)，由此可預(yù)測(cè)未來(lái)的教育會(huì)更加專業(yè)化。由此可知，這篇文章討論的主題是美國(guó)的教育。故選D。

【2】

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中Americans have always been ambivalent in their attitudes toward education.可知美國(guó)人對(duì)待教育的態(tài)度一直是矛盾的。由此可推知，美國(guó)人對(duì)待教育的態(tài)度一直是矛盾的。故選B。

【3】

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中In today's more complex world, the opportunities for financial success is closely related to the need for education, especially higher education.可知在當(dāng)今這個(gè)更加復(fù)雜的世界里，獲得經(jīng)濟(jì)成功的機(jī)會(huì)與教育的需求密切相關(guān)，尤其是高等教育。由此可知，如今，經(jīng)濟(jì)上的成功與對(duì)高等教育的需求密切相關(guān)。故選A。

【4】

推理判斷題。根據(jù)第三段Our society is rapidly becoming one whose chief product is information, and dealing with this information requires more and more specialized education. In other words, we grow up learning more and more about fewer and fewer subjects.可知我們的社會(huì)正在迅速成為一個(gè)主要產(chǎn)品是信息的社會(huì)，處理這些信息需要越來(lái)越多的專業(yè)教育。換句話說(shuō)，我們?cè)诔砷L(zhǎng)過(guò)程中學(xué)習(xí)的科目越來(lái)越少。由此從第三段可以推斷，未來(lái)的教育將是專業(yè)化的。故選B。

【5】

主旨大意題。根據(jù)第一段中Americans have always been ambivalent in their attitudes toward education.可知美國(guó)人對(duì)待教育的態(tài)度一直是矛盾的。結(jié)合文章還說(shuō)明了即使在今天，人們?nèi)匀挥锌赡茉诓皇芙逃那闆r下取得經(jīng)濟(jì)上的成功，但是這種情況的數(shù)量正在減少。而社會(huì)正在迅速成為一個(gè)主要產(chǎn)品是信息的社會(huì)，由此可預(yù)測(cè)未來(lái)的教育會(huì)更加專業(yè)化。由此可知，D選項(xiàng)“美國(guó)教育的態(tài)度”最符合文章標(biāo)題，故選D。

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