2020-12-31 10:10:58 | 来源:网络及考生回忆
Students in affluent southern Seoul neighborhoods complain that the new system will hurt them the most. Nearly all Korean high schools will be weighted equally in the college-entrance process, and relatively weak students in provincial schools, who may not score well on standardized tests, often compile good grade-point averages.
Some universities, particularly prestigious ones, openly complain that they cannot select the best students under the new system because it eliminates differences among high schools. They've asked for more discretion in picking students by giving more weight to such screening tools as essay writing or interviews.
President Roh Moo Hyun doesn't like how some colleges are trying to circumvent the new system. He recently criticized “greedy” universities that focus more on finding the best students than faying to “nurture good students”. But amid the crossfire between the government and universities, the country's 10th graders are feeling the stress. On online protest sites, some are calling themselves a “cursed generation” and “mice in a lab experiment”. It all seems a touch melodramatic, but that's the South Korean school system.
158、According to the passage, the new college-entrance system is designed to ( ).
A、require students to sit for more college-entrance tests
B、reduce the weight of college-entrance tests
C、select students on their high school grades only
D、reduce the number of prospective college applicants
159、What seems to be the effect of introducing the new system?( )
A、The system has given equal opportunities to students.
B、The system has reduced the number of cram schools.
C、The system has intensified competition among schools.
D、The system has increased students' study load.
160、According to critics, the popularity of private education is mainly the result of ( ).
A、the government's egalitarian policy
B、insufficient number of schools
C、curriculums of average equality
D、low cost of private education
161、According to the passage, there seems to be disagreement over the adoption of the new system between the following groups EXCEPT ( ).
A、between universities and the government
B、between school experts and the government
C、between parents and schools
D、between parents and the government
162、Which of the following adjectives best describes the author's treatment of the topic? ( )
A、Objective
B、Positive
C、Negative
D、Biased
材料
Today, the top one percent in this country gets about twenty percent of income, similar to the distribution found across the Atlantic. How did the United States go from being the most egalitarian country in the West to being one of the most unequal? The course from there to here harms out to be like something of a roller-coaster ride.
An early systematic attempt to chart the evolution of inequality in this country was undertaken by Simon Kuznets, at that time a professor at Johns Hopkins, who in 1955, published what turned out to be seminal paper. “Economic Growth and Income Inequality.” Drawing on years of assiduously collected data...for which be later won a Nobel Prize-he reached a surprising conclusion. Like most economists, he had assumed that the general trend, in a capitalist economy governed by private property, would be for the rich to get richer for inequality to increase steadily over time. That had been true in the initial stages of industrialization, in found, but since then the United States, England, and Germany had experienced a growing of economic disparity. And, as more data about more countries became available, Kuznets found that in most advanced economics the poor were catching up with the rich. It was, he said, “a puzzle”.
The explanation appeared to involve two factors. First, there was the me of mass education. Once countries had reached a certain level of industrialization, skills-human capital-became as important as physical captical in determine productivity and a greater economic that accumulated to those with more education, not just to those with money to invest. Second, politics took over from economics. The poor, with the Weight of numbers on their side, realized that they could vote in favor of taxing the rich more levity, distributing the money to themselves in various ways.
The inverted U-shaped relationship that Kuznets found between income and inequality-inequlity in the early stages of Development and them falling afterward-came to be called the Kuznetics curve, Kuznets article-came out at the height of the could War The U.S economy was becoming More and more people were going to college. White-collar work was taking over from blue-collar work, and during the Grate Depression the government had introduced programs such as Social Security and unemployment insurances. American took comfort in the fact, version of capitalism was not only most Dynamic and productive economic system in the world but one that was steadily becoming more equitable and fairy by the seventies, America was as equal of the Scandinavian countries are today.
And then, starting sometimes in the early eights, inequality started to rise. The shape of the curve from an invented U to something more like an N, up, down, and up, not was this shift a temporary or exceptional alteration. It has continued for nearly four decades. The jump in inequality has been most domestic in the United States, where the shape of income going to the top one percent has soared from eight percent in the early eights to almost twenty percent today. What's more, inequality has also increased in Britain, Australia, Canada, large parts of Europe, and even Japan, suggesting that there is something intense at work across the world.
163、What does the phrase a roller-coaster ride in the first paragraph mean?( )
A、It means America has gone through a sense of changes that were not planed.
B、It means the tradition from an equal to unequal society turns out to be surprising.
C、It means it has met many difficulties and obstacles to reach the equality.
D、It means the inequality has developed in an uneven way instead of straight way.
164、In the 2 paragraph, what was the “puzzle” according to Simon Kuznets?( )
A、The wealth gap was assumed to continuous increasing but narrowed down
B、The development of other countries turned out to different from America's
C、The inequality increased not as steady as it was predicted over time
D、The economic disparity became similar in initial stages of industrialization
165、Which of the following is TRUE according to the 3th paragraph?( )
A、The politicians were mostly from the poor and stood for the poor.
B、Education made it possible for the poor to participant in the industrialization.
C、The wealth gap was decreased as a result of politic interference.
D、Education helped the poor learn more skills which were also valued as capital.
166、Why did the author say that “not was this shift a temporary aberration”?( )
A、The raped increase of inequality as not expected according to Kuznets's curve.
B、It has lasted for many years and it is found in many other developed countries.
C、The N-shaped pattern in found replacing the inverted U-shaped curve.
D、The jump of inequality is consistent with the trend indicated by Kuznets's curve.
167、Which of the following questions can answer this passage?( )
A、What is wrong with the increase of inequality?
B、Which country has the most equality in the world?
C、Can the rich people get richer forever?
D、Is it possible for the poor to become richer than the rich?
材料
All of the 2019 Noble Prizes in science were awarded to men. That's a return to business as usual, after biochemical engineer Frances Amoid won in 2018, for chemistry, and Donna Stricklland received the 2018 Noble Prizes in physics.
Stricklland only the third female physicist to receive the award, after Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer 60 years later. When asked how that felt, she noted that at first it was surprising to realize so few women had won the award “But, I mean, I do live in a world of mostly, so seeing mostly men doesn't really ever surprise me either.”
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