2017英语(一)入学测评卷.docx

2017考研文都网校特训入学考试测评试卷科目：英语（一）考试时间：100分钟满分：100分Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (20points) The nation’s high school graduation rate, which declined in the latter part of the 20th century, may have 1 bottom and begun to rise, according to a report to be issued Tuesday by a nonprofit group founded by former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.“The United States is turning a 2 in meeting the high school dropout epidemic,” General Powell and his wife, Alma J. Powell, wrote in a letter 3 the report. The report 4 two statistics. The national graduation rate increased to 75 percent in 2008, 5 72 percent in 2001. And the number of high schools that researchers call 6 factories——based on a formula that compares a school’s 12th-grade enrollment with its 9th-grade enrollment three years earlier—— 7 to about 1,750 in 2008, from about 2,000 such schools in 2002.But the report notes 8 progress in some states and school districts had not been matched in others. Tennessee and New York made “breakthrough gains”, sharply 9 their graduation rates from 2002 to 2008, the report says. In Arizona, Utah and Nevada, graduation 10 dropped significantly.The 88report, “Building a Grad Nation,” was 11 by America’s Promise Alliance, along with two other groups. “I like this report because it shows that progress is possible 12 all odds,” said Marguerite W. Kondracke, the alliance’s president.Daniel Losen, a former Harvard lecturer who researches graduation 13 , said the report “might be a bit on the rosy side.” He added, “We might be beginning to turn a corner, but we’re not coming out of it yet.”The report cites school 14 that have made progress, as well as some where the crisis has 15 . In 2005, researchers at Johns Hopkins University identified Richmond High School 16 Indianan as a dropout factory. But from 2006 to 2009, teachers, c