Question

The new studies show that fewer than half of the 9th graders in many of the nation’s largest cities, can ever graduate. The studies clearly show that the dropout rate isn’t dropping. And, in particular, the dropout rate isn’t dropping for poor and minority students.
Amazingly, though so many regret the rising dropout rate, our schools continue to lack formal plans—or any plans—to teach students motivation. Most schools have no game plan to ensure that students understand that schooling will be completely necessary. Schools expect youth and children to act as though schooling is important, but they never teach them to believe that.
Years ago, families ensured that the children recognized the value of schooling. But in many modern families, the children may fail to recognize the importance of school life just because these families may actually tell their children that school is not important. Since many families are not motivating their children to be interested students, youth professionals, like teachers may need to provide this training.
Here are some strategies to convince even the most apathetic (無動于衷的) students that they must stay in school.
Ask students if they will ever need to work: The world has changed. 100 years ago, factory work was the booming job, and it required no education. Today, factories are increasingly automated. Most computer-related jobs require education and at least a high school diploma.
Ask students which century they will be prepared for: In 1900, the most common jobs were farm laborer and domestic servant—education not needed. Now, the most common jobs are office and sales staff—education and diploma usually needed. An amazing 6 out of 10 people today work in a store or office.
Ask students to devise a way that the employee could be replaced. For example, the coming trend in fast food is to use computers rather than people to run the restaurant. A prototype is apparently already being tested. The students should discover that most jobs that lack education and diploma requirements may be ripe for automation.
【小題1】What does the underlined part mean in Paragraph1?

A．Few students can afford to go to school in large cities.

B．A large number of the 9th graders can graduate now.

C．There are still quite a few 9th graders leaving school early.

D．Most schools in large cities have fewer and fewer students.

【小題2】It can be inferred that     .

A．both schools and families should answer for the high dropout rate

B．many new jobs don’t need children’s high school diploma

C．working in a store doesn’t require a high school diploma

D．most schools are ready to help students recognize the importance of study

【小題3】The author takes factory work for example mainly to       .

A．tell us that many jobs required certain education in the past

B．show that employment in the computer field grows at a high rate

C．show that there are more factory work and employment in modern society

D．emphasize that modern jobs require education and schools are necessary

Answer 1

【小題1】C
【小題2】A
【小題3】D

解析試題分析：本文敘述了現在的教育不成功的一面，有不到一半的學生能夠堅持到畢業，究其原因有學校和家庭兩方面的原因，兩者都沒有讓學生充分認識到知識的重要性，文章以工廠對于工人的要求有了很大的變化，要求知識性的工作多了，來論證學習知識的重要性。
【小題1】句意推測題。The new studies show that fewer than half of the 9th graders in many of the nation’s largest cities, can ever graduate.有不到一半的九年級的學生中途輟學，故選C。
【小題2】推理判斷題。Most schools have no game plan to ensure that students understand that schooling will be completely necessary.和But in many modern families, the children may fail to recognize the importance of school life just because these families may actually tell their children that school is not important. 學校應制定一些計劃讓學生認為學校教育是重要的，還有家庭教育也應讓孩子認識到學習知識的重要性，故選 A。
【小題3】作者意圖題。因為這段說的工廠對于工人需求的變化，說明工廠需要有知識的人，故選D。
考點：教育類短文閱讀。
點評：推理判斷題屬于主觀題，是層次較高的題目。它包括判斷和推理題。這兩類題常常相互依存，推理是為了做出正確的判斷，正確的判斷又依賴于合乎邏輯的推理。該題要求在理解表面文字的基礎上做出判斷和推論，從而得到文章的隱含意思和深層意思，也就是通過文章中的文字信息，上下邏輯關系及事物的發展變化等已知信息，推斷出作者沒有直接表達的態度和觀點。