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  3. 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.
The real problems of the Isle of Wight include all EXCEPT ______.
选项 A、shortage of metropolis
B、existence of needy pupils
C、uniformity of skin colour
D、lack of experienced teachers
答案D
解析 根据题干中的“real problems”，“Isle of Wight”等词定位到第四段。该段提到了Isle of Wight面临的三个问题，第一个是“The island lacks a large city(该岛没有大城市)”，而这与选项A，shortage of metropolis(缺乏大城市)对应，故A项不选。第二个问题是：it has some, but not many, poor children.“存在一些(尽管不是很多)贫困生”，该句话对应选项B，existence of needy pupils(贫困学生的存在)。其中，needy一词表示“需要帮助的，贫困的”，是poor一词的同义替换，故该项也不选。第三个问题是：it is almost entirely white．(岛上几乎都是白种人。)这与选项C对应，该项的“uniformity of skin colour(肤色统一)”是这个句子的同义表达。综上所述，答案为D。
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