首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
(1)There will be no valedictory speech(毕业致辞)at Jericho High School’s graduation on Sunday. With seven seniors laying claim to th
(1)There will be no valedictory speech(毕业致辞)at Jericho High School’s graduation on Sunday. With seven seniors laying claim to th
admin
2016-12-06
33
问题
(1)There will be no valedictory speech(毕业致辞)at Jericho High School’s graduation on Sunday. With seven seniors laying claim to the title by compiling A-plus averages, no one wanted to sit through a solid half-hour of inspirational quotations and silly memories.
(2)Instead, the seven will perform a 10-minute humorous play titled "2010: A Jericho Odyssey," about their collective experience at this high-achieving Long Island high school, finishing up with 30 seconds each to say a few words to their classmates and families.
(3)"When did we start saying that we should limit the honors so only one person gets the glory?" asked Joe Prisinzano, the Jericho principal.
(4)In top suburban schools across the country, the valedictorian, a beloved tradition, is rapidly losing its singular meaning as administrators dispense the title to every straight-A student rather than try to choose the best among them.
(5)Principals say that recognizing multiple valedictorians reduces pressure and competition among students, and is a more equitable way to honor achievement, particularly when No.l and No.5 may be separated by only the smallest fraction of a grade from sophomore science. But some scholars and parents have criticized the swelling valedictorian ranks as yet another symptom of unstrained grade inflation, with teachers reluctant to lose the best and brightest’s chances of admission to top-tier colleges.
(6)"It’s honor inflation," said Chris Healy, an associate professor at Furman University, who said that celebrating so many students as the best could leave them ill prepared for competition in college and beyond. "I think it’s a bad idea if you’re No. 26 and you’re valedictorian. In the real world, you do get ranked."
(7)Not, though, at graduation from Stratford High School in the suburbs of Houston, which accorded its 30 valedictorians—about 6.5 percent of the class—gold honor cords. Nor at Cherry Hill High School East in southern New Jersey, which has revised its graduation tradition, picking a speaker among this year’s nine co-valedictorians by lottery and printing speeches from the others in the program.
(8)William R. Fitzsimmons, the dean of admissions at Harvard, said he had heard of schools with more than 100 valedictorians, and had seen home-schooled students praised as No.l—out of one—all of which has helped render the distinction meaningless.
(9)Even some principals who have named multiple valedictorians acknowledge that the honor no longer carries the same weight. "If you’ve got one in a population of 500, it has special significance," said John O’Breza, the principal of Cherry Hill East. "When you have 9, 10 or 30 in a population of 500, the numbers speak for themselves. The more rare it is, the more distinguished."
(10)Still, being tapped as valedictorian resonates(引起共鸣)deeply. "I feel like as long as you reach that point, it doesn’t matter how many you have," said Yvette Leung, one of the Jericho seven, who is bound for Harvard. "To be named valedictorian is an honor and a testament to how hard we’ve tried."
(11)The word valedictorian—Latin for "farewell sayer"—appears as early as 1759 in the diary of the Rev. Edward Holyoke, then president of Harvard College. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as "the student usually having the highest rank in a graduating class who delivers the valedictory address at the commencement exercises."
(12)School officials contend that there are more valedictorians than ever before because the frenzy over college admissions has made students more serious about grades and has spurred them to load up on advanced courses beginning in freshman year. In addition, some schools have adjusted their formulas to give more students a shot at the top spot by counting more courses toward the grade-point average, or limiting the weight given to any one particular subject.
According to John O’Breza, to be named as one of the multiple valedictorians is______.
选项
A、meaningless
B、as significant as before
C、still an honor
D、not an honor any more
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的John O’Breza定位到第9段。该段提到John O’Breza认为学校如果选出多个valedictorian,获得这个称号的荣誉感就不能和以前相比了。虽然荣誉感会大不如前,但这暗示John O’一Breza认为能成为valedictorian仍然是光荣的,只不过这种荣誉的分量没以前那么重。可见本题应选C。A“毫无意义的”说法过于绝对,并不能准确说明John O’Breza的观点。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/hJJK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
InrecentyearscriticismshavebeenvoicedconcerningsexistbiasintheEnglishlanguage.Ithasbeenarguedthatsomeofthe
Fiftyyearsago,mostpeople’sdailylevelsofactivitywereequivalenttowalkingthreetofivemilesaday.Today,the【C1】____
Itisoftensaidthatpolitenesscostsnothing.Infact,itseemsthatalittlemorecourtesycould【C1】______businesses£5bil
Everyonewouldhaveheardthefamousphrase"Angerisoneshortofdanger".Itisanage-oldadage,butitis【C1】______andstill
Everyonewouldhaveheardthefamousphrase"Angerisoneshortofdanger".Itisanage-oldadage,butitis【C1】______andstill
Ihaveanitchtogofishingthissummer.Theunderlinedwordmeans______.
InFlorida,officialsaretryingto______ontheboomingreentechnology.
Accordingtothepassage,somejobapplicantswererejected______.
Heappearsoutofthejunglelikeanapparition—amanfromtheWiwatribe,oneoffourindigenousgroupswhocalltheSierraNev
随机试题
纳西族最具特色的服饰是妇女的“七星披肩”,俗称“披星戴月”。()
城市通信工程详细规划中的主要内容包括()。
施工组织设计中施工部署及施工方案的内容包括()。
根据规定,上市公司披露定期报告、临时公告的例行停牌时间,自交易日午开市后停牌()小时。
相位调制(PM)的瞬时相位偏移随调制信号作线性变化。()
①第一本防水平装书还将拥有强大的防伪功能②澳大利亚的银行现在已经使用该项技术来延长纸币的使用寿命,同时减少伪造的风险③英国出版商近日透露,世界上第一本防水平装书有望明年夏天上架销售④书的外面还有一层防撕毁的坚韧的聚合物涂层,整本书的架上寿命可以由此增
我并不完全排斥热闹,热闹也可以是有内容的。但是,热闹总归是外部活动的特征。而任何外部活动倘若没有一种精神追求为其动力,没有一种精神价值为其目标,那么,不管表面上多么轰轰烈烈,__________,本质上必定是__________和空虚的。依次填人画横线部分
明朝称藏族聚居的西藏为__________。十四世纪末,藏僧宗喀巴在西藏创立的新教派是_________,俗称黄教。其弟子释迦也失被明成祖封为_________,宣德时又加封为“大慈法王”。
中华民族在长达数千年的历史发展中,形成了源远流长的优良道德传统。中国传统道德的根本要求是()
SlanginEnglishTodaywe’lldiscussacommonlinguisticphenomenoninEnglish—slang.Thefeaturesofslangarelistedasfo
最新回复
(
0
)