单选题 .  SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
    In this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answer marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
    PASSAGE ONE
    (1)My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite shirt—sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. My carry-on item was a parka.
    (2)In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old. It was in this town that I'd been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. That was the year I finally put ray foot down; these past three summers, my dad, Charlie, vacationed with me in California for two weeks instead.
    (3)It was to Forks that I now exiled myself—an action that I took with great horror. I detested Forks.
    (4)I loved Phoenix. I loved the sun and the blistering heat. I loved the vigorous, sprawling city.
    (5)"Bella," my morn said to me—the last of a thousand times—before I got on the plane. "You don't have to do this." My morn looks like me, except with short hair and laugh lines. I felt a spasm of panic as I stared at her wide, childlike eyes. How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself? Of course she had Phil now, so the bills would probably get paid, there would be food in the refrigerator, gas in her car, and someone to call when she got lost, but still... "I want to go," I lied. I'd always been a bad liar, but I'd been saying this lie so frequently lately that it sounded almost convincing now.
    (6)"Tell Charlie I said hi." "I will." "I'll see you soon," she insisted. "You can come home whenever you want—I'll come fight back as soon as you need me." But I could see the sacrifice in her eyes behind the promise.
    (7)"Don't worry about me," I urged. "It'll be great. I love you, Morn." She hugged me tightly for a minute, and then I got on the plane, and she was gone.
    (8)It's a four-hour flight from Phoenix to Seattle, another hour in a small plane up to Port Angeles, and then an hour drive back down to Forks.
    (9)Flying doesn't bother me; the hour in the car with Charlie, though, I was a little worried about.
    (10)Charlie had really been fairly nice about the whole thing. He seemed genuinely pleased that I was coming to live with him for the first time with any degree of permanence. He'd already gotten me registered for high school and was going to help me get a car.
    (11)But it was sure to be awkward with Charlie. Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn't know what there was to say regardless. I knew he was more than a little confused by my decision—like my mother before me, I hadn't made a secret of my distaste for Forks.
    (12)When I landed in Port Angeles, it was raining. I didn't see it as an omen—just unavoidable. I'd already said my goodbyes to the sun.
    PASSAGE TWO
    (1)Many of us have so many things that we like to do during the week to enjoy ourselves and keep happy. However, what many people don't realize is that most of these things can be improved by listening to music before, after or during our activities. There isn't a ton of information on the more "everyday" application of music to healthy living but we found and thought up enough to make a strong argument PRO MUSIC.
    (2)Music helps us to express ourselves: Music is a great way to express those things that we aren't able to otherwise. Sometimes we need an outlet and when there are no words, or we just can't find them at the time, music can help to alleviate some tension caused by life circumstances.
    (3)Music helps to set the mood: Music is a way to set the mood in any circumstance. Put it as the spotlight in a setting where people come for the music or use it as a background noise to subtly suggest or inspire a certain atmosphere. This is used in department stores, coffee shops, restaurants, etc. For your next romantic date, make sure to have the right music ready to really speak to your special person.
    (4)Music inspires: Music can inspire feeling and thoughts that we wouldn't have had otherwise. Sometimes the beat and rhythm can make us feel something for a song before we hear the lyrics. Once this connection has been made and we take the time to listen to the lyrics, our hearts and souls are more vulnerable and open to the words offered in the song. We will be more willing to acknowledge something we otherwise might have been unaware of. An example of something like this would be if you were in the middle of breakup, but you were "powering through" —just moving on like it never happened. Then you listen to a great song whose rhythm and sound move you. In listening to the song you open yourself up to the words because of the connection you already have and realize that it has opened your heart to the reality of what you are actually feeling in the midst of the breakup. Music has a way of leading us to places we don't always acknowledge we need to go. It has a subtle truth to it that is a healthy way to be real.
    (5)Music makes you feel understood: Similar to making you able to express yourself, music is usually a way that someone else has expressed themselves. Knowing this helps us to connect just on a human to human level of understanding that we are not alone in what we are feeling. Someone else wrote it and therefore understands to some degree what you are going through, and that is always nice to know.
    (6)Music moves you: Music has a real way of helping us to experience human emotions. Theater is the best example of this. Watch any modem day movie and pay attention to the background music. During any moment that depicts emotions (sad, happy, funny, fear, etc) there will be background music. It helps you get in touch with those feeling in moments when you might not otherwise.
    (7)Music relaxes: Music is a great way to get into relaxing mode. Some like a nice glass of wine, some like a hot bath. Regardless of that, many of us all have our favorite "relax" tunes as our "secondary tactic" to a nice quiet evening. Music has a way of soothing and calming—and a general way of managing our state of mind.
    (8)Music is a universal language: Music is truly a universal language, like many arts. Music with or without words appeals to emotions that are human by nature and therefore experienced by all ages and all ethnicity. Regardless of your position in life you will most likely agree on the "feeling" of a song with any person sitting next to you. As discussed earlier this helps you to feel understood and it of course is just nice when "speaking" to a diverse crowd.
    (9)Music motivates you during exercise: With the right song music will get you lifting more, running faster, biking faster, and going longer in general for exercise. Make sure that when you work out you are focused on songs that inspire you to perspire.
    PASSAGE THREE
    (1)Chris Coughlin, a tall, sandy-haired senior at Noble and Greenough School, knew he'd had enough of Natick High School when his geometry teacher assigned a series of drawing projects that would make up a big part of his grade. "Obviously if you're a really good artist, you're gonna get a good grade," he says. "And if you're good at math, but you can't draw, you're not. I just thought it was totally absurd."
    (2)It wasn't just what Coughlin calls "mindless busywork", however, that caused him to jump from public school to private last year. "All the kids at Nobles, you can just tell they want to be there," he says. "When you go to Natick, there are tons of kids who you can just tell don't want to be there, and they're forced to be there. You can tell they're unhappy, and they want to make everyone around them unhappy."
    (3)Coughlin's complaint isn't surprising given the burden every public school bears to educate whoever walks through the door. The story speaks volumes, but we want to spell out the differences between public and private schools more clearly. Working with statistician I. Elaine Allen of Babson College, we ranked 212 Boston-area public and private high schools for the first time, based on 28 measures, including test scores, class size, and teacher salaries. Some of what we found won't surprise you: the schools of the wealthy are better than those of the poor. But some will: contrary to the doom-and-gloom scenarios widely promulgated by politicians and the media, many public schools are doing outstanding work. And, despite what their glossy catalogs may tell you, some private schools aren't all that good.
    (4)Private schools have obvious advantages, of course, and just about all of them ultimately come down to money. The Boston area boasts many of the richest private schools in the nation, with endowments bigger than those of some small colleges. Phillips Academy has an endowment of $560 million, Milton $143 million, Roxbury Latin $105 million. What all those zeroes translate into is better facilities, more and happier staff members, and greater resources and programs.
    (5)Money may not buy love, after all, but it buys something very close to it in the education world. Experts agree that the more involved teachers, counselors, and coaches become with their students, the greater the chance they will develop genuine relationships that help students pursue their interests. And the more resources a school has, the lower it can keep its student-teacher ratio.
    (6)Because private schools are not burdened by the sheer number of kids who flood through the entrance halls of public schools each year, class sizes can be ridiculously small—as small as 4 students per teacher at Gann Academy in Waltham, compared to as many as 23 students per teacher at East Boston High. As Chris Coughlin noticed right away upon transferring, "I would have around 20 kids or more in my classes in Natick, and I averaged around 10 this year in Nobles. And I had six kids in my science class. The one-on-one attention you get from the teacher, it just makes a world of difference."
    (7)Kids, of course, have to want all that attention. As Robert Henderson, head of school at Nobles, says about the kind of student who does well at his school, "It's the kid who wants to have adults actively involved in their lives all the time." Bill Wharton, headmaster of the highly selective Commonwealth School in Boston's Back Bay, says, "You have to know every kid. It's in the one-on-one conferences that the revelation occurs."1.  According to the passage, which of the following words can NOT be used to describe the town of Forks? (PASSAGE ONE)