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With its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and blue waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England’s southern coast. We
With its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and blue waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England’s southern coast. We
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问题
With its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and blue waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England’s southern coast. Wealthy Londoners sail their boats there. It seems odd that such a place should contain some of the worst-performing schools in England. But it does; and in this, the Isle of Wight is not quite as strange as it seems.
Provisional figures show that in 2013 just 49% of 16-year-olds on the island got at least five C grades, including in English and maths, in GCSE exams. That is fewer than in any of London’s 32 boroughs, or indeed anywhere in the southern half of England apart from nearby Portsmouth. In the previous year the Isle of Wight was second to bottom in the whole country. Just 23% of pupils entitled to free school meals got five decent grades, compared with a national average of 36%. In September the island’s schools were deemed so bad that Hampshire County Council took them over.
Part of the explanation is distinctively local. Luring good teachers to an out-of-the-way spot is hard. In 2011 the island endured a muddled transition from the sort of three-tier school system common in America, with primary, middle and secondary schools, to the two-tier one that is standard in England. But its results were bad even before that change.
The Isle of Wight’s real problems are structural. It suffers from three things that might appear to be advantages but are actually the opposite. The island lacks a large city; it has some, but not many, poor children; and it is almost entirely white.
But these days pupils, including poor ones, often fare better in inner cities than elsewhere. In Tower Hamlets, an east London borough that is the third most deprived place in England, children entitled to free school meals do better in GCSE exams than do all children in the country as a whole. Bangladeshis, who are concentrated in that borough, used to perform considerably worse than whites nationally; now they do better.
We know from the third paragraph that ______.
选项
A、good teachers are unwilling to teach in remote areas
B、the reform of the school system on the island seems effective
C、American school system is definitely superior to that of England
D、there is barely difference between American and English school systems
答案
A
解析
选项A对应第三段第二句:Luring good teachers to an out-of-the-way spot is hard. (吸引好老师到偏远地区是很难的。)其中“out-of-the-way spot”指的是“偏远的地区”,对应“remote areas”:“is hard”对应“unwilling”。故该项正确。选项B中的“the reform of the school system学校体制改革”对应原文“transition from…to…(从……到……的过渡)”。最后一句指出:But its results were bad even before that change. 该句的“change”对应选项中的“reform”,而“bad”与选项B中的“effective”完全不符,故该项错误。选项C属于无中生有,文章并没有说美国和英国的教育体制哪个更好,故错误。选项D指出英国和美国的教育体制“…barely difference(几乎没区别)”,原文提到美国是三级教育体制,而英国是两级教育体制,两者有本质区别,故该项表述也是错误的。
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