阅读理解 With a mixed feeling of pride and discontent, Prof. Mitchell sat on the front lawn of Princeton High School, watching the Class of 2004 (47) . Her pride was for the seniors'' average SAT score of 1237, third-highest in the state, and their admission to famous universities like Harvard, Yale and Duke. As president of the high school alumni(校友) association, Ms. Mitchell deserved to (48) the tradition of public-education excellence. Though, she felt quite (49) about Blake, her own son. He was receiving his diploma on this June afternoon only after years of struggle. More often than not, the science teacher said he was merely (50) of C''s. Even at that, Ms. Mitchell realized, Blake had done (51) better than several friends who were not (52) at the graduation ceremony. They were headed instead for crash courses(补习班). "I said to myself: ''Oh, no. Please, no, ''" Ms. Mitchell recalled. "I was so hurt. These were (53) kids. This shouldn''t have been happening." It did not escape Ms. Mitchell''s notice that her son and most of those less (54) classmates were black. They were the (55) of an accomplished school district''s dirty little secret, a racial achievement gap that has been (56) and left uncorrected for decades. Now that pattern may have to change under the pressure of the federal No Child Left Behind law. WORD BANK [A] absent [F] graduate [K] bright [B] pleased [G] capable [L] enjoy [C] dissatisfied [H] successful [M] slightly [D] weakness [I] hardly [N] recognized [E] finish [J] evidence [O] present

【正确答案】 F

【答案解析】根据admission to famous universities，receiving diploma等内容可以推断文章描写的是Ms． Mitchell在一个毕业典礼上的所想所感，而下文出现的graduation ceremony更是提示了答案为graduate。从语法上看，watch sb．do sth．，因此所填词应为动词原形，由于动词后没有接宾语，因此应该为不及物动词，通过这种分析也可以容易地选出答案。

【正确答案】 B、L

【答案解析】deserve to后应该接动词原形，由于deserve一词是指“应受，应得”(be worthy of)，因此后面的内容是指一种令人高兴或自豪有成就感的事情。Ms．Mitchell是学校校友会主席，那么她应该是为公共教育出色的历史感到高兴，因此答案选enjoy。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】所填词作felt的表语，表示Ms．Mitchell对她儿子的态度。段首的Though提示此处描写的Ms． Mitchell的心情和上文的enjoy形成对比，因此判断合适的选项为dissatisfied。下文的内容解释了Ms．Mitchell对儿子不满意的原因。

【正确答案】 C、M

【答案解析】Ms．Mitchell的儿子的成绩只是C，不是很好，因此他的功课只是比他的朋友好一点点，所填词修饰比较级better，因此应该选一能够修饰比较级的副词，选项中可作为副词的有hardly和slightly。hardly为否定副词，hardly better相当于no better(不比．．．好)，而Ms．Mitchell的几个儿子的朋友没有出席毕业典礼(参考 52题解析)，去上补习班了，Ms．Mitchell的儿子还是获得了毕业证书，这说明Ms．Mitchell的儿子的功课比他的几个朋友要好一点，因此排除hardly，因此答案选slightly“稍微”。

【正确答案】 E、O

【答案解析】所填词的下一句是对其上一句的进一步介绍说明。从instead一词可判断Ms．Mitchell的儿子的几个朋友做的事情和Ms．Mitchell的儿子做的事情不相同。Ms．Mitchell的儿子在这个六月的下午领到了毕业证书，那么他的几个朋友应该是没有出席毕业典礼，因此答案选present“出席的”。absent和present一样可以接 at引导的地点状语，但是其含义是“缺席的”，由于此句已有否定(not)，所以排除absent。

【正确答案】 A、K

【答案解析】这句话和下一句解释了Ms．Mitchell受到伤害的原因。Ms．Mitchell认为这种事情(没有毕业去上补习班)不应该发生，那么在她看了，这些孩子应该是聪明的孩子，因此答案选bright。选项中能够用来作定语修饰人的还有successful，这些孩子成绩不好，不能说是成功的，而不成功不代表着人就不聪明。

【正确答案】 J

【答案解析】Ms．Mitchell的儿子和他的朋友是黑人，他们成绩不好，甚至不能正常毕业，而他们所在的学校却很优秀(the seniors'' average SAT score of 1237，third-highest in the state，and their admission to famous universities like Harvard，Yale and Duke)，因此他们能说明of后面的内容，即好学校里不同种族的学生的成绩存在差距，能表达They和of后面的内容的关系的词是evidence“证明，证据”。