【正文】 se of plicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.District administrators say that homework will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10%of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see vey little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without pleting their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, acrosstheboard rule.At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely,if homework matters,it should account for asignificant portion of the ,this policy does nothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful oraooropriate to theirage and the that teachers are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for . Unified to do homework right. is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_____. [A] is receiving more criticism [B]is no longer an educational ritual [C]is not required for advanced courses [D]is gaining more preferences22. has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students_____. [A]tend to have moderate expectations for their education [B]have asked for a different educational standard [C]may have problems finishing their homework [D]have voiced their plaints about homework23. According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may____. [A]discourage students from doing homework [B]result in students39。 lack of imagination[D]cannot influence girls39。s nature[C]researches into children39。 attraction to pink seems to be____.[A] clearly explained by their inborn tendency[B]fully understood by clothing manufacturers[C] mainly imposed by profitdriven businessmen[D]well interpreted by psychological experts參考答案26~30 ABACCText 3In 2010, a federal judge shook America39。 and patents39。 they had bee less materialistic and more financially prudent。s personal experience rather than public glory. By contrast, the Victorian author Samual Smiles wrote SelfHelp as a catalogue of the worthy lives of engineers , industrialists and explores . The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of selfhelp, if patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the formulation of truly noble and many character, exhibit,wrote Smiles.what it is in the power of each to acplish for himselfHis biographies of James Walt,Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life. This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte. These epochal figures represented lives hard to imitate, but to be acknowledged as possessing higher authority than mere mortals. Communist Manifesto. For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor waged battles:“It is man, real, living man who does all that.” And history should be the story of the masses and their record of struggle. As such, it needed to appreciate the economic realities, the social contexts and power relations in which each epoch stood. For:“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please。2004年，一份對(duì)印度家庭的大型調(diào)查中，發(fā)現(xiàn)將近40%的移民者受教育程度在高中以上。Section IV WritingPart A47．Directions: Suppose you have found something wrong with the electronic dictionary that you bought from an online store the other day ,Write an to the customer service center to1) make a plaint and2) demand a prompt solutionYou should write about 100 words on ANSERE SHEET 2.Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter, Use zhang wei instead.Do not write the address. (10 points)========================================================================================================To whom it may concern, I am writing this letter in the purpose of plaining about the quality of the electronic dictionary which I bought from your website last week. As you know, last week I bought an eletronic dictionary from your website. However, there was a problem which I found after I opened the box of the dictionary. when I used the dictionary, I found that it didn’t work at all for the first trial. My suggestion to the solution of this problem is that you help me to replace a new one for me . And I sincerely hope that you can give me a reply as soon as possible. I am looking forward to your reply. Yours sinverely, Zhang Wei48．Directions: Write an essay based on the following table. In your writing, you should1) describe