【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides. West WindsorPlainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for seven years and been chief for the last three years, said he had seen troubling signs. In a recent art assignments, a middle school student depicted (描繪) an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+ , on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words, Shame on you! Further, he said, the New Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of writing on state English language assessments in which students expressed suicidal thoughts. J) The survey missioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor and Advanced Placement students reported feeling stressed about school always or most of the time. We need to bring back some balance, Aderhold said. You dont want to wait until its too late to do something. K) Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the ChineseAmerican mother of a fifthgrader and an eighthgrader, believes the petition within the district has gotten out of control. Sue, who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dial it back. Its bee an arms race, an educational arms race, she said. We all want our kids to achieve and be successful. The question is, at what cost? 36. Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed to take off campus. 37. White and AsianAmerican parents responded differently to Aderholds appeal. 38. Suicidal thoughts have appeared in some students writings. 39. Aderholds reform of the advanced mathematics program will affect AsianAmerican students most. 40. Aderhold appealed for parents support in promoting an allround development of children, instead of focusing only on their academic performance. 41. One ChineseAmerican parent thinks the petition in the district has gone too far. 42. Immigrant parents believe that academic excellence will allow their children equal chances to succeed in the future. 43. Many businessmen and professionals have moved to West Windsor and Plainsboro because of the public schools there. 44. A number of students in Aderholds school district were found to have stressinduced mental health problems. 45. The tension between AsianAmerican and white families has increased in recent years. Section C Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 46 and 50 are based on the following passage. For thousands of years, people have known that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else. While we teach, we learn, said Roman philosopher Seneca. Now scientists are bringing this ancient wisdom uptodate. Theyre documenting why teaching is such a fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction. Researchers have found that students who sign up to tutor others work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively. Student teachers score higher on tests than pupils whore learning only for their own sake. But how can children, still learning themselves, teach others? One answer: They can tutor younger kids. Some studies have found that firstborn children are more intelligent than their laterborn siblings (兄弟姐妹). This suggests their higher IQs result from the time they spend teaching their siblings. Now educators are experimenting with ways to apply this model to academic subjects. They engage college undergraduates to teach puter scie