题目内容
17．As students and teachers returned to school on Monday after the publication of performance ratings（等级） for 18，000 teachers，many parents said they were giving the reports serious thought．Yet there was an equal measure of skepticism among parents that test scores have any relationship with teachers'competence．Some said they already knew how good a teacher was by walking into the classroom or by monitoring their children's progress．"I'm the kind of person who likes to see for themselves，"a father in Queens said．
Others worried about how their fellow parents，perhaps ones with sharper elbows，might respond．Will they demand a new teacher？Move their children to a new school？
Elizabeth Sane，the mother of a fourth grader at the Ella Baker School，a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school on the Upper East Side，said that her daughter was switched to a different teacher's class over the summer，and that it was"like adding salt to the wound"when she saw the high ratings for her daughter's previous teacher．Her daughter's teacher this year did not receive a rating because he previously taught high school．
Ms．Sane said that the rating was not the only factor that influenced how she assessed a teacher's performance，but that the data used for teacher evaluations mattered．
But other parents dropping their children off at the Ella Baker School said they did not trust teacher ratings based on test scores any more than they wanted their children's learning measured only by the state exams．
"Some people take it as the final word，but it doesn't change who they are as teachers．The ratings aren't accurate，and the whole student testing thing needs to be thrown out，"said Lydia Delgado，whose child is in the second grade．
41．Paragraph 1 tells us thatD
A．All the teachers received a rating given by the students．
B．All the teachers will receive a rating at the end of each semester，
C．Most parents took the teachers'ratings seriously．
D．About half of the parents doubted the ratings to be reliable．
42．What does the underlined part"with sharper elbows"mean？A
A．With the ability to change the situation．
B．With a good relationship with the school．
C．With a stong will to succeed．
D．With strong elbows physically．
43．Paragraph 4 shows that Elizabeth SaneB
A．was on the side of giving ratings to the teachers．
B．regretted having sent her daughter to another class．
C．didn't think her daughter's previous teacher was better．
D．wanted her daughter to return to her previous class．
44．Which of the following statements is true？A
A．The teacher ratings were decided by the test scores of the students．
B．Ms．Sane evaluated a teacher's performance only by the rating．
C．Lydia Delgado didn't think the students'scores should be kept．
D．To give ratings to teachers will come to an end in the near future．
45．The attitude of the author towards the way to assess teachers'competence isD．
A．supportive B．critical
C．indifferent D．objective．
分析 本文属于说明文阅读，作者通过这篇文章主要向我们讨论了关于教师的评估方式，用学生的成绩来评价教师到底科不科学，很多家长和专家都对此表示怀疑．
解答 41．D．细节理解题题．根据文章第一段"Yet there was an equal measure of skepticism among parents that test scores have any relationship with teachers'competence"可知很多家长怀疑这个评级是否可靠；故选D．
42．A．词义猜测题．根据文章第三段"Others worried about how their fellow parents，perhaps ones with sharper elbows，might respond"另一些人担心他们的父母，也许是那些有更敏锐的可以改变形势的人可能会做出反应；故选A．
43．B．推理判断题．根据文章第四段"and that it was"like adding salt to the wound"when she saw the high ratings for her daughter's previous teacher"可知Elizabeth Sane后悔送女儿到另一个老师那儿；故选B．
44．A．推理判断题．根据文章倒数第三段"Ms．Sane said that the rating was not the only factor that influenced how she assessed a teacher's performance，but that the data used for teacher evaluations mattered"可知老师的评价是由学生的考试成绩决定的；故选A．
45．D．推理判断题．通读全文，可知文章主要讨论了关于教师的评估方式，用学生的成绩来评价教师到底科不科学，作者举了具体的例子，并用了实际数据，可知作者的态度是客观的；故选D．
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力，做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确的选择．在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．
