单选题Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each
passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statement. For each of them
there are four choices marked A) , B) , C) , and D). You should decide on the
best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
with a single line through the center. Passage One Questions 57 to 61 are
based on the following passage. A new analysis of
federal money that public schools receive for low-income students shows that a
record number of the nation's school districts will receive less in the coming
academic year than they did for the one just ended. For the
2005-2006 school year, spending under the Department of Education's Title 1
program, which helps low-achieving children in high-poverty areas, is increasing
by 3.2 percent, to $12.6 billion. But because of population shifts, growing
numbers of poor children, newer census data and complex formulas that determine
how the money is divided, more than two-thirds of the districts, or 8,843, will
not receive as much financing as before. The analysis, based on
data from the department, was made by the Center on Education Policy, a group
advocating for public schools. A similar study by the group last year showed
that 55 percent of the schools would receive less money than they did in the
previous year. "It's an alarming number," said Tom Pagan, a
former department official who conducted the analysis. "It's clear that the
amount of overall increase is not keeping pace with the number of poor kids.
" Susan Aspey, a department spokeswoman, defended the spending
levels for Title 1, saying, "President Bush and Congress have invested record
amounts of funding to help the nation's neediest students. "
But Mr. Pagan said the increasing number of districts that are losing money is
making it harder for the schools to meet the goals of the federal No Child Let
Behind Act, the Bush administration's signature education program, which
measures progress through annual tests in math, reading and science. That is
giving critics of the program more grounds to accuse the administration of not
sufficiently financing the program while demanding greater results.
Title I provides the largest component of financing for No Child Let
Behind. "The federal government is concentrating more money in
fewer districts," said John F. Jennings, the president and chief executive of
the Center on Education Policy. "It means there is lots of anger and lots of
tension. They're asking us to do more and more with less and less. "
单选题
As it is indicated in the passage, the new analysis ______.
A. studied the federal money spent on low-income students
B. aimed at promoting the establishment of more public schools
C. showed that about half the schools would receive less money
D. was conducted by the Department of Education's Title I program
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】
单选题
Which of the following factors does NOT lead to the result that more
than two-thirds of the district will get more poorly financed?
A. People often move from one place to another.
B. There are more children from poor families.
C. The way of distributing money has changed.
D. Spending under the Title I program decreased.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】
单选题
Susan Aspey looks at the funding by the government with ______.
A. criticism
B. consent
C. indifference
D. expectation
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】
单选题
According to Tom Pagan, ______.
A. the government has done its best to finance the poor children
B. the goals of No Child Let Behind Act are difficult to realize
C. the way of measuring progress by annual tests should be changed
D. the Bush government shouldn't have approved the Title I program
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】
单选题
When the government concentrates more money in fewer districts, ______.
A. more poor children will get benefited
B. more public schools will have to be closed
C. it will arouse more people's dissatisfaction
D. No Child Let Behind Act will be realized sooner