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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F
解析 本题为一个独立段。前一段内容是对取消class ranking的支持，认为class ranking给孩子带来了不公平，是人造的数字而已。之后的段落指出：取消班级排名，招生学校更加难以把握尺度，但是我们完全理解。显然这里提到class ranking带来的负面影响。可见本题所在段应该起到承上启下的衔接作用。F首句Not surprisingly，there is still lots of disagreement about the new policy正是这样的过渡句。之后提到：一些家长担心这会让一些成绩突出的学生丧失机会，迫使大学依赖可信度不那么高的诸如ACT或SAT一类的标准考试。这与下文中的大学招生官员所说的话衔接自然，属于同一语义场，故为答案。D项指出：学生之间关于荣誉毕业生称号的竞争非常激烈，在许多私立学校这种竞争日益加剧。全文只在第四段末提到honor和address the class等字眼，将D试着放回该部分前面发现，该项与上下文其他内容均无关联，与本文主题class ranking无关，故排除。E项指出：学校必须通过学生的简介和其他方法来确定课表是否合适以及相对于其他人，学生的表现如何。全文任何地方都没有提到schedule，没有与课表相关的语境，出现该词会显得非常突兀。至于学生的 performance仅适用前文，因为前文提到who’s better than who，将E项放回原句，发现与下文缺少关联，不能引起下文，排除。
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