湖州师范学院2013届学位英语考试八.doc

湖州师范学院2013届学位英语考试复习题八 （仅供2013届抵学位考试参考用） Part One Reading Comprehension (4 0%) Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D).You should decide on the best choice Passage One If we were only necessary to decide whether to teach elementary science to everyone on a mass basis or to find the gifted few and take them as far as they can go, our task would be fairly simple. The public school system, however, has no such choice, for the jobs must be carried on at the same time. Because we depend so heavily upon science and technology for our progress, we produce specialists in many fields. Because we live in a democratic nation, whose citizens make the policies for the nation, large number of us must be educated to understand, to support, and when necessary, to judge the work of experts. The public school must educate both producers and users of scientific services. In education, there should be a balance among the branches of knowledge that contribute to effective thinking and wise judgment. Such balance is defeated by too much emphasis on any one field. This question of balance involves not only the relation of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts, but also relative emphasis among the natural sciences themselves. Similarly, we must have a balance between current and classical knowledge. The attention of the public is continually drawn to new possibilities in scientific fields and discovery of new knowledge; these should not be allowed to turn our attention away from the sound, established materials that form the basis of courses for beginners. 1. According to the passage, the task for the public school system is _______. A. easy B. unnecessary C. complicated D. simple 2. Whom must the public school education according to the writer? A. Specialists only. B. Both common people and specialists. C. Common people only