题目内容
Beijing was under an “orange” smog alert on Feb. 24, which marks the first time the second-highest warning level of a new system introduced last year________.
A. has been raised B. raised
C. has risen D. rose
A
【解析】考查时态和语态。该句句意:“北京在2月24号处于‘橙色’雾霾预警之中,这表明由去年所引入的新系统中的二级警报等级已经提高了。”这个警报系统是根据雾霾的水平来提高的,就像天气预报那样,如果有强台风来袭,气象部门就会提高警报级别,警报级别不会自动升高,故用及物动词raise的被动语态,又根据marks所体现的一般现在时,且句中“ introduced last year”为后置定语修饰system,可知“现在已经被提高了”,用现在完成时的被动语态,故正确答案为A.
考点:时态和语态
Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, which is a nonprofit organization that conducts research on many public issues. He says that a long summer vacation doesn’t make sense in today’s world.
Can American students afford to take a summer vacation? In a summer vacation, millions of kids spend valuable time sending messages, watching TV, playing video games and doing shopping in the mall. They will also be putting their academic futures at risk.
Summer vacation once made sense in the past when you didn’t need an education to get a good job. But now things have changed. For today’s students, academic skills are important to students’ future success, but such skills are affected in the summertime. Many nations don’t give kids an American-style summer vacation. They offer no more than seven consecutive(连续的) weeks of vacation. Most American school districts offer up to thirteen weeks. To compete in the global marketplace, Americans must be prepared to go up against international competitors.
Summer vacation also causes challenges for today’s families. In the 1960s, more than 60% of families had a stay-at-home Mom. Now two-thirds of American children live in households where every adult works. For these families, summer vacation can be more burden than break. Someone must watch the kids.
But the biggest problem may be how summer vacation hurts academic achievement. Researchers have found that disadvantaged students lose significant ground in the summertime.
A longer school year does not have to be an invitation to hard boring work. Rather, it should allow time-pressed teachers to conduct richer and more imaginative lessons. Schools would have more time to devote to athletics, languages, music and the arts. Summer vacation can be a grand thing. But in the 21st century, it may also be outdated.
Title: Summer Vacation
Theme | A long summer vacation isn’t 1. in today’s world. | |
Basic Information | 2. length | 13 weeks in most American schools |
Students’ 3. | ·Sending messages and watching TV ·Playing video games ·Doing shopping | |
Disadvantages | ·4. student’s academic skills and putting academic futures at risk. ·Being a 5. to families for they have to watch kids. ·Hurting students’ academic achievement and resulting in 76 significant ground. | |
Suggestion | A longer school year does not have to 6. to hard boring work. Richer and more imaginative lessons should be 7. , such as athletics, languages, music and the arts. | |
8. | Though being a ground thing, summer vacation might be out of 9. in the 21st century. | |