Rola, a 16-year-old girl, is excited, yet scared, as she begins her first year of college in the United States. She attributes h

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问题     Rola, a 16-year-old girl, is excited, yet scared, as she begins her first year of college in the United States. She attributes her achievement to her public school 【S1】______ in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon.
    In Lebanon, teachers in public schools teach students two or three 【S2】______ languages, usually French and English. Since Rola already mastered English, it became easier for her to perform 【S3】______ in the class. To shape our future, educators must recognize the 【S4】______ a second language affords to students such as Rola. Research indicates that children who study a foreign language show increased cognitive ability and 【S5】______ normal classroom expectations. Why not teach a second language to elementary school youngsters? Teachers in many European and Asian countries do just that.
    The majority of students born and raised in the United States 【S6】______ formal education in an other language. Sometimes, they are first 【S7】______ to a second language in high school when it is of ten difficult for them to master a second language. Newsweek supports this claim when it notes that "A child taught a second language after age ten is unlikely ever to speak it like a 【S8】______." Re search supports this notion. Positron Emission Tomography(PET) scans show that by age four children’s brains are twice as 【S9】______ as adult brains. This 【S10】______ level of activity makes it easier for children to learn a second language.

              Word Bank:
A. lack                 I. different
B. performance          J. competently
C. poorly               K. high
D. potential            L. involved
E. enjoy                M. experience
F. active               N. exceed
G. introduced           O. native
H. low

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答案M

解析 attributes揭示了句中存在因果关系,her public school______in the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon是her achievement的原因,文章第二段告诉我们黎巴嫩公立学校的老师教学生两三门语言,由于Rola已经掌握了英语,因此她在美国上大学时就能更轻松地胜任学习了,因此空格处所在句子的含义应该是:Rola把自己在大学取得的成绩归功于她在黎巴嫩公立学校的学习经历—她已经掌握英语了。因此答案选experience。performance形成很强的干扰,但是performance指的是“表现”,强调的是人做某事的好坏,而文章并没有提她在黎巴嫩的学习表现,只是说她在黎巴嫩已经学了英语,因此只能说是学习经历。
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