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6．
Memorandum（备忘录）
To：Members of all departments
From：Annette Derringer
Subject：Year-end party
Date：November 26
  This is just a quick note to let you all know the arrangements for next month's year-end party．As you know，the party will be held at the Green Vale Country Club，which we have reserved between 6：00 pm and 10：00 pm on the evening of December 21st.1 have received replies from almost all of you confirming attendance，but if you have not let me know yet，please do so in the next day or two．Tickets for all employees have been covered by the company．
  The manager of Green Vale has asked me to explain one or two things to those of you who have not been there before．Basically，there is enough parking space for only 100 vehicles，so he would like to ask those of you planning to drive to try car pool（拼车）as much as possible．Also，the number of lockers available is small，so guests should try to keep belongings to a，minimum．
Thanks in advance，
Annette
To：Annette Derringer aderringer@belway．com
From：Kype Berwick
Subject：Year-end party
Date：November 28
Annette，
  I will be able to attend the year-end party at the Green Vale Country Club on December 21st although I do not think I will be able to arrive before 7：30．I was wondering if it would also be possible to bring a couple of guests．I know it is a bit of a last-minute request，but my brother and his wife are planning to visit us at that time，and they would love to see the Green Vale．If it is not a problem，then could you let me know how much I should pay for their tickets？Also，assuming this is OK，we are planning to drive down in a single car to reduce the need for paring and also to allow us to keep our belongings in the ear．I will have a couple of days off before the party，and I will not be in my office December 17th，so could you get back to me before then？
Thanks a lot，
Kyle
1．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the memorandum？A
A．Payments for extra guests．
B．Time of the year-end party
C．Parking restrictions．
D．Storage of personal items．
2．Kyle Berwick writes to Annette Derringer mainly toD．
A．ask the price of movie tickets
B．explain why he cannot to the party
C．confirm the route to the hotel．
D．ask if he can bring guests to the party．
3．What can we infer from the passage？B
A．The manager of the Green Vale doesn't want the members to go there by car．
B．Annette is in charge of making arrangements for the year-end party．
C．The members can take as many belongings as they can with them．
D．Kype Berwick won't bring guests to the party if he as to pay for the tickets．

分析 本文主要介绍了年终聚会的时间地点和具体的安排情况，以及参加人员想带客人的疑问等的情况．

解答 1．A 细节理解题．根据句子As you know，the party will be held at the Green Vale Country Club，which we have reserved between 6：00 pm and 10：00 pm on the evening of December 21st可见时间是有的；there is enough parking space for only 100 vehicles车位情况有说明；the number of lockers available is small，so guests should try to keep belongings to a，minimum个人物品的储存有说明，额外客人的付款．所以答案选A．
2．D 细节理解题．根据句子I was wondering if it would also be possible to bring a couple of guests．我想知道是否也可以带几个客人来．可见他写信的主要目的是为了询问是否可以带几个客人，所以答案选D．
3．B 推理判断题．根据 Annette发出信息中的句子The manager of Green Vale has asked me to explain one or two things to those of you who have not been there before绿河谷公司的经理要求我解释一下你们以前没有去过的地方的一两件事．还有Kyle向他写信询问是否可以多带客人，由此可以推断出Annette是负责这次聚会的工作，所以答案选B．

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C．Painful         
D．Wise．
15．The strong protests against constant testing are a reaction mainly against the mindless test-prep（针对训练） associated with reading tests．Math tests，which are based on an actual curriculum，aren't the main issue．Prepping for them usually helps improve math proficiency．But prepping for reading tests have had only a short-tem effect，and hasn't helped reading ability in the long run．
If you look at recent scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress，you will see that there's a gentle boost in reading scores for grades 4 and 8，but not for 17 years olds．The reading proficiency of high school seniors had not been changed since the great verbal decline of the 1970s，which was well documented by drops in scores on the SAT．So，why haven't the short-term early boots in grades 4and 8translated into better verbal scores in grade 12？Reading tests in later grades are more knowledge-intensive than the tests in the early grades．Scholars of the subject showed that 12th-grade scores declined in the 1970s and stayed flat，because of a narrowing of the school curriculum．
The time-consuming test preparations with endless exercises on"finding the main idea"and"questioning the author"have become the main cause of today's curriculum narrowing．Emphasis on reading and reading tests have helped to cause low reading scores among senior students．The underlying reasons for this paradox（悖论） are not widely understood among test makers and other specialists：Prepping for reading tests has had a negative effect on the curriculum，because the tests themselves，not to mention the strategy exercises，are based on an incorrect understanding of reading ability．
Reading ability is very topic independent．How well students perform on a reading test is highly dependent on their knowledge of the topics of the test passages．Yet the topics on our current reading tests don't have anything to do with the topics studied in school．Worse，there's no short-term way of preparing for a general reading test other than by doing topic-indifferent skill-exercises．It involves teaching students how to figure out the meaning of a test passage，even when they know little about the topic．This kind of unproductive and boring test-prep ceases to have an effect．
That's why reading scores were higher when schooling was more knowledge-intensive．A knowledge-oriented curriculum will，over time，produce higher verbal abilities than a test-prep curriculum．Over 13years of knowledge-intensive schooling，students，including disadvantages ones，can learn quite a lot about a lot of topics，greatly increasing their ability to make high scores on a reading test．

58．According to Paragraph 1，constant reading tests are receiving strong protests probably becauseC．
A．they are a reaction against the mindless test-prep related to reading tests
B．Math tests which are based on an actual curriculum aren't the main issue
C．prepping for them hasn't boosted high school seniors'reading proficiency
D．prepping for them fails to produce any effect for students'reading skills
59．Emphasis on reading had contributed to low scores in higher grades becauseD．
A．the test-prep associated with reading tests is too time-consuming
B．there's no short-term way of preparing for a general reading test
C．the prepping for reading tests is unproductive and boring
D．test experts fail to understand reading proficiency correctly
60．The suitable title for this text could beD．
A．Strong Protest Against Constant Testing                
B．Reading Ability is Very Topic Dependent
C．A Paradox of Emphasis on Reading and Low Scores      
D．Why Reading Test Scores Flatten Out in 12th Grade．
14．假定你是李华，校学生会主席．即将高中毕业，你代表全体高三学生邀请外教Jeff来参加毕业典礼．
1．时间：6月6日  上午9：00； 地点：学校音乐厅；
2．介绍毕业典礼的活动；
3．希望Jeff能够发表简短的演讲．
注意：
1．词数80左右；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯．
Dear Jeff，
I am Li Hua，chairman of the Students'Union，writing to invite you to attend our graduation ceremony．（高分句型一）
The ceremony is to be held in the school Music Hall at 9：00 am，on June 6th．It will start with the School Anthem（校歌），which is followed by various performances ranging from dances to martial arts．（高分句型二）Moreover，videos made by students themselves will bring the vivid recollections of past school life into visual reality．Should our graduation ceremony by ended with your speech，it would do us a great honor．（高分句型三）
Please reply at your earliest convenience．
Yours sincerely，
Li Hua．

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