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Brent Madoo still remembers the question that got him into college. He was in a workshop with eight other New York City students

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问题     Brent Madoo still remembers the question that got him into college. He was in a workshop with eight other New York City students. Adults were there, too, watching the group and their interactions. "Should schools use race as a factor in admissions?" one of them asked. Madoo had 30 seconds to【S1】______He said yes--it was worth any potential harm to encourage diversity. "When everyone in the workshop started yelling at me, I thought I had blown the entire thing and failed the【S2】______".
    It【S3】______out that the answer didn’t really matter. What the adults were looking for was how Madoo and the others【S4】______their answers and【S5】______disputes. Later, Madoo learned that it was his persistence and diplomacy that made him stand out--and earned him a full-time study in Dickinson College.
    Madoo was one of thousands of New York City high school seniors who【S6】______each year for scholarships through the Posse Foundation, an organization that helps inner-city kids get into elite colleges. In the past 14 years, 1,228 students have made it through the exhaustive three-month selection process and gone on to receive full-tuition scholarships from 23 different colleges.
    The foundation, funded by a variety of groups,【S7】______to identify top students from high schools in poor urban areas that recruiters(招生人员)from elite colleges【S8】______to neglect. The foundation puts candidates through its "dynamic assessment process," a series of group workshops, interviews, and evaluations【S9】______to check out leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Only a few make it to the final round, where admissions officers select students, relying on the foundation to find kids who may not stand out on traditional measures like grades and standardized test【S10】______.

     A. scores      B. ideas       C. answer      D. turned      E. enlarged
     F. brought     G. test        H. competed    I. handled     J. explained
     K. ambition    L. aims        M. intended    N. tend        O. create
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答案H
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