【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 enroll．Autonomy also means an automatic weeklong suspension for any student who “disrespects a female，”said Mr．Leonard．It means requiring struggling students，in the weeks before the Regents exams，to attend studying sessions on Saturday from 9 a．m．until 9 p．m．It means the most senior, experienced teachers，including Mr．Leonard，teach not the school’S academic jewels，but the most struggling students．And autonomy also means the school’ S teachers administer almost no homework．Instead they emphasize afterschool tutoring where the teachers Can keep a better eye on whether the student is actually grasping the material．40．In Mr．Leonard’S school，most ofthe students who don’t have to pay for lunch____．A．a(chǎn)re adopted childrenB．a(chǎn)re parentlessC．a(chǎn)re homelessD．have a single parent【答案】D【解析】第一段第四行談到這所學(xué)校63%的學(xué)生達(dá)到了免費(fèi)午餐的條件，因?yàn)檫@些學(xué)生是單親家庭。故D正確。41．What can be a good indication of the Bedford School’ s success?A．63 percent of its students go on to ．A high percentage of students enjoy free ．All the graduates from the school go on to ．The number of its graduates is twice that of New York High School【答案】C【解析】第一段談到在紐約市僅有50%的畢業(yè)生四年后勉強(qiáng)畢業(yè)，而這所學(xué)校達(dá)到了95%，實(shí)際上，每位學(xué)生都能考上大學(xué)。42．What does Mr．Leonard expect from those lowtesting students?A．The highest scores．B．The best ．Respectfulness and discipline．D．Willingness to learn by themselves.【答案】C【解析】文章第二段第二行談到，Mr Leonard 看重的不是學(xué)生的分?jǐn)?shù)，而是守紀(jì)律，尊敬別人。故C正確。43．The school insists that students should____．A．leave the school if they fail to respect a womanB．a(chǎn)ttend the preparatory classes in the summer before enrollingC．do their homework to review what they have learnedD．e to the school on Sundays【答案】B【解析】第三段談到學(xué)校要求學(xué)生在入學(xué)之前上一個(gè)學(xué)習(xí)班。以此檢測(cè)他們的自律能力和行為舉止，尤其最調(diào)皮的學(xué)生。Passage ThreePeople joke that no one in Los Angeles reads；everyone watches TV, rents videos，or goes to the movies．The most popular reading material is ic books，movie magazines，and TV guide s．City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have．But how do you explain this? An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is flourishing year after year．People wait half an hour for a parking space to bee available．This outdoor festival，sponsored by a newspaper，occurs every April for one year’ s attendance was estimated at 70，000 on Saturday and 75，000 on Sunday．The festival consisted of 280 exhibitors．There were about 90 talks given by authors，with an audience questionandanswer period foilowing each talk．Autograph(親筆簽名)seekers sought out more than 150 food court sold all kinds of popular food and diverse foreign foods，from American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks．Except for a $7 parking fee，the festival was free．Even so，some people avoided the food court prices by staying away and having their own sandwiches and came from all over California．One couple drove down from San Francisco．“This is our sixth year here now．We love it，”said the husband．“It’s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors，to be mnong so many books and authors，and to get some very good deals，too．”The idea for the festival occurred years ago，but nobody knew if it would succeed．Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities，would Los Angeles residents wele one?“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，”said one of the festival founders．44．The underlined sentence in the first paragraph implies that____．A．city libraries have a very limited number of readersB．only a small proportion of the readers go to libraries by carC．city libraries provide fewer places for Car washesD．city libraries have fewer parking places【答案】A【解析】第一段第三行談到去圖書(shū)館借書(shū)的車輛僅占全部交通的10%，此句暗示圖書(shū)館的讀者非常有限。故A正確。45．The outdoor book festival attracts____．A．a(chǎn)utograph seekers and authors onlyB．people with different interestsC．people who love Los AngelesD．people who like cooking【答案】B【解析】第二段談到本次購(gòu)書(shū)節(jié)吸引了眾多的讀書(shū)愛(ài)好者，星期六達(dá)到了70，000，星期天達(dá)到了75，000，以詞可推斷出B正確。46．At the very beginning，people were____ about the idea for the book festival in Los ．confidentB．pessimisticC．uncertainD．indifferent【答案】C【解析】文章最后一段談到，but nobody knew if it would succeed“The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，（unpredictable 捉摸不透的，不確定的，和uncertain 同義），故C正確。47．The success of Los Angeles book festival shows that____．A．book reading is still popular in Los AngelesB．Los Angeles people prefer library to book festivalC．people attend the book festivals for fun not for readingD．libraries should have food courts to attract more readers【答案】A【解析】盡管剛開(kāi)始對(duì)于購(gòu)書(shū)節(jié)的發(fā)展該有不確定的因數(shù)，但后來(lái)的情況說(shuō)明讀書(shū)在洛杉磯很受歡迎。故選APassage FourHave you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Are you afraid to ask someone for a date?Many people are afraid to assert themselves(堅(jiān)持己見(jiàn))．Dr．Robert Alberti，author of Stand Up, Speak Out，and Talk Back, thinks it’s because of their lack of confidence．“Our structure of organization tends to make people distrust themselves．”says Alberti．“There’s always a‘superior’arounda parent，a teacher，a bosswho‘knows better’．These‘superiors’often gain when they keep breaking at your selfimage．”But Alberti and other scientists are doing something to help people assert themselves．They offer“assertiveness training”coursesAT for short．In the AT course people learn that they have a right to be themselves．They learn to speak out and feel good about doing so．They learn to be aggressive without hurting people．In one way, learning to speak out is to overe fear．A group taking an AT course will help the shy person to lose his fear．But AT uses an even stronger motivethe need to share．The shy person speaks out in the group because he wants to tell how he feels．Whether or not you speak up for yourself depends on your selfimage．If someone you face is more“important”than you，you may feel less of a person．You start to doubt your own good sense．You go by the other person’ s label．But，why should you?AT says you can get to feel good about yourself．And once you