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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    It’s hard to get more white-fenced than Naperville. In the western Chicago suburb, crime is an annoyance, not a problem. The streets are clean and the schools are some of the most impressive in the state, producing some of the brightest students who attend the nation’s best colleges. (41)______.
    The rankings will be phased out over the next year, with 2007’s upperclassmen deciding whether to include such a rank in their official transcripts. By no longer ranking students, the Naperville School District 203 is squarely in line with a trend that is fast sweeping the nation, as more and more private and public schools are dropping the practice. Tile goal, proponents say, is to cut down on the hyper-competition and lessen the stress at such a critical learning point and maturation curve in kids’ lives.
    "It’s a high bar we set, and it should be," said Naperville Superintendent Alan Leis. "But there needs to be more than wrestling over who’s better than who." (42)______.
    Some 80% or more public schools still report rankings to inquiring universities and colleges, but a growing number of high schools in the Chicago area and around the country—in mostly affluent districts from California to Miami to New Jersey—have already adopted the practice. (43)______. Even in Naperville, a valedictorian is still expected to address the class, but that honor is not chosen until the last weeks of a school year and is not forwarded on to schools in official transcripts.
    (44)______. According to Dr. Scott Hunter, a clinical psychologist and school consultant at the University of Chicago Hospitals who specializes in pediatric neuropsy chology. "The reality is that we have made in the last 10 years more of rank than it deserves because some kids don’t really shine until they enter into adulthood, and they risk being ignored by the very places and people where they could greatly succeed," adds Hunter, "This is an artificial number in terms of where a person really falls."
    (45)______.
    "It makes it a little more opaque for us on the admissions side, but we fully understand it," said Jim Miller, director of admissions at Brown University. "It’s conceivable a student could get a B in gym and get knocked down 40 places in rank. So we’re getting more used to it, and probably half our applicants now come from schools that don’t have rank."

A. Class rankings, a tradition at many schools, have long helped universities and colleges—especially the Harvards and Princetons of the world—weed out the weak students from the strong, the ones with not only promise but the ambition to excel and meet the difficulties of higher education.
B. But it’s vicious at the top—so much so that Naperville’s school officials recently voted to stop u sing a class ranking system.
C. A much higher number of private schools do not share their rankings, including some independent schools in Chicago that, for example, have societies that recognize the top 10% of a class but choose to allow the students themselves dictate who speaks at graduation.
D. Competitions among students for the title of honored graduates are very tight and are on the rise in a great number of private schools.
E. Schools just have to make certain, through student profiles and other means, the strength of a schedule and student performance relative to other students.
F. Not surprisingly, there is still lots of disagreement about the new policy; some parents are worried that it hurts high-achieving students’ chances of getting over the bar, while forcing colleges and universities to rely on perhaps less reliable or easier measures or on standardized tests like the ACT or SAT.
G. Students and their parents increasingly fight over who gets to be number one, and the damage that can be done—both academically and psychologically—to those who lose out far wins the benefits of the glory attached to such titles.

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答案A
解析 本题位于第三段段末，由于该段是对别人观点的引用，因此有必要了解前面内容，对事情的来龙去脉全面掌握。首段末句引出本文主题：class ranking。第二段提到将取消班级排名制度。指出Naperville学校的做法顺应了席卷全国的趋势，支持者认为这可以在学生一生中学习的关键时期减缓竞争，减轻压力。艾伦.雷斯的观点是对前面内容的说明：我们应该设定高标准。但是我们不是仅仅找出谁更优秀。既然此处说到新的标准不仅仅着眼于分清孰优孰劣，那么下文应该对以往的制度进行简单介绍，以便做出对比。A和C都提到了ranking，但A中出现了universities and colleges，这与下文首句为词汇复现，因为是对class ranking概括性的介绍，这恰好与下一段中的细节内容构成了论点和论据关系，符合该处语境，故为答案。
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