单选题
Soon after starting his job as supervisor of the Memphis, Tenn., public schools, Kriner Cash ordered an assessment of his new district's 104,000 students. What most concerned him was that the number of students considered 'highly mobile,' meaning they had moved at least once during the school year, had ballooned to 34,000. At least 1,500 students were homeless—probably more. It led him to think over an unusual suggestion: What if the best way to help kids in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods is to get them out? Cash is now calling for Memphis to create a residential school for 300 to 400 kids whose parents are in financial distress. His proposal is at the forefront (最前线) of a broader national trend. Public boarding schools are hardly a new concept. But publicly financing boarding schools for inner-city kids is a very different suggestion. If Cash's dream becomes a reality, it will probably look a lot like SEED (Schools for Educational Evolution and Development), whose 320 students live on campus five days a week. Perhaps the most provocative (引起争论的) aspect of Cash's proposal is to focus on students in grades 3 through 5. Homelessness is growing sharply among kids at that critical age, when much of their educational foundation is set, Cash says. His aim: to prevent illiteracy and clear other learning roadblocks early, so the problem 'won't migrate into middle and high school.' Students will remain on campus year-round. 'It sounds very exciting, but the devil is in the details,' says Ellen Bassuk, president of the National Center on Family Homelessness in Newton, Mass. 'What's it like to separate a third-or fifth-grader from their parents?' It may help to consider the experience of SEED student Mansur Muhammad, 17. When he arrived seven years ago, the first few weeks were tough. But Muhammad hasn't looked back. He maintains a 3.2 GPA and reshelves books in the school's library for $160 every couple of days, when he's not in his room listening to rap or classical music and writing poetry. Inspired by a teacher, Muhammad is working on a book. 'It was a long road for me to get here,' he says, 'and I have a long way to go.'
单选题
What did Cash intend to do with the kids in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods to 'get them out'? ______
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】第1段最后一句。 第1段最后一句中的suggestion(建议)和第2段第1句中的calling for(呼吁)表明第2段第1句是对第1段最后一句的suggestion包含的具体内容的解释，由此可见，get them out是指第2段第1句提到的把贫困孩子安排到一所独立的寄宿学校(residential school)学习，D中的boarding school与文中的residential school同义，故本题应选D。 A和C都是基于“贫困孩子需要帮助”这个内容可能会让读者产生的联想，与D相比起来，这两个的内容都没有在第1段和第2段直接提到，在原文中缺乏直接的依据；B是get...out的字面意思，与原文对get them out的解释正好相反。 [参考译文] 在成为田纳西州孟菲斯地区公立学校的督学不久后，克里纳·卡西便要求对其新辖区的10.4万学生进行一次调查评估。最令他担心的是那些被认为“流动性特别强的”学生，这是指每学年至少会搬一次家的学生，这种学生的数量已攀升至3.4万人。至少有1500名学生无家可归——也许还有更多。这促使他考虑了一个不同寻常的建议：如果帮助这些生活在城市社区里的贫困孩子的最好办法是将他们分离出来，情况会怎么样呢? 卡西现正呼吁孟菲斯地区为300到400名父母有经济困难的孩子办一所寄宿学校。他的建议有可能引起更大范围的全国性的办学趋势，公立寄宿学校几乎不能算是一个新理念，但为市中心平民区的孩子开办由政府资助的寄宿学校却是一仝全新的建议。 如果卡西的梦想成为现实，这样的学校就很像SEED(教育改革和发展学校)了，在SEED的320名学生一周五天都是住在校内的。 也许卡西的建议最引人争议的地方是其关注的对象是小学三到五年级的学生。卡西说，在这个奠定教育基础的关键年龄段的孩子中，无家可归的现象正急剧攀升。他的目标是预防文盲，尽早清除学习路障，这样的问题“便不会转移到初中和高中了”。学生一整年都会待在学校里。“这听起来很令人兴奋，但一些细节往往会被忽略，且可能造成不良影响。”马萨诸塞州纽顿的“国家无家可归者研究中心”的主任埃伦·巴萨克说道，“让三到五年级的孩子离开父母会出现什么情况呢?” 看一下SEED的学生，17岁的曼苏尔·穆罕默德的经历也许会有些帮助。穆罕默德7年前来到SEED，开始几周很艰苦，但他没有退缩，他的平均分数达到了3.2，当他不在房间听说唱或古典音乐，也不写诗的时候，他会到图书馆帮忙整理图书，每几天便会挣得160差元。受一位老师的启发，穆罕默德现在在写一本书。“走到这一步对我来说不容易，”他说，“而我还有很长的路要走。”
单选题
'Inner-city kids' are most probably children who ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】第2段最后一句。 第2段是对第1段最后一句的解释，该段介绍了Cash为贫困孩子建立一所寄宿学校的想法，最后一句中的inner-city kids与该段第1句提到的kids whose parents are in financial distress同义，都是指“贫困家庭的孩子”，因此本题应选A。 B提到的private schools没有原文依据；C与inner-city kids的意思刚好相反；D提到的highly mobile在第1段也有提及，但highly mobile和第2段提到的“贫困家庭的孩子”属于两种概念，highly mobile只是表明孩子搬家比较频繁，但未必是“贫困”，而第2段只谈到了“贫困”，与highly mobile无关，因此排除D。