单选题 How do schools deal with students who experience difficulties?
A.They are given appropriate supplementary tuition.
B.They are encouraged to copy from other pupils.
C.They are forced to explain their slow progress.
D.They are placed in a mixed-ability class.

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 这道题目问学校怎么对待后进生,通过做heading题应该已经能够把后进生的问题定位到E部分了,E部分的小标题是helping less successful students,所以直接到E部分找答案就可以。文中说老师会give individual help以及setting extra work,这些其实都是A项中的appropriate supplementary tuition(适当的补充辅导)。
B项必然不对,完全不合逻辑;C项则是无中生有,找不到依据;D项略具迷惑性,提到了mixed-ability class,这个词组在E部分第一句出现过,但说的是提供单独辅导的前提,就是因为学生都在一个mixed-ability class,成绩会有所不同,老师才会对后进生提供帮助,而题目问的是方法。而且D项也歪曲了原文的说法,只是借原词来挖陷阱而已。