阅读理解　　Text 1 　　Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on his educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade. 　　This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children. 　　District administrators say that homework will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see vey little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule. 　　At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework does nothing to ensure that the homework students are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct. 　　The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.

单选题 It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_____.

单选题 L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students_____.

单选题 According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may____.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】引申题。第三段“But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades，students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards．Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework．”从第三段的转折词看起，作业成绩占总成绩的10%，对总评分的影响小，故一些州中考试成绩优秀的学生不愿做作业，可见造成的后果是学生不愿做作业。B项有推断过度之嫌，故排除。

单选题 As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】引申题。第四段“If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students' academic achievement，it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments，not make them count for almost nothing．Conversely，if homework matters，it should account for a significant portion of the grade”．从两个对比句子看出作业对学生的学业的作用，如果作业不重要的，就应该减少或取消。如果作业重要的话，它理应占学生成绩的较大比例。由此推出答案为B项。D项有较大的干扰作用，但原文强调作业对学业(schooling)的作用。