4. 【答案】C

　　【解析】固定搭配考查。根據(jù)原文語境，考查短語____ sb to sth 意為“讓某人承受某事”。因此，C選項為正選。

　　5.【答案】 B

　　【解析】根據(jù)上文，第二段句首提到in a series of four experiments,說明是在“實驗”的語境。結(jié)合四個選項，[A]信息[B]實驗[C]復習[D]觀念，只有B選項和段落語境相符合。因此為正選。

　　6.【答案】 C

　　【解析】動賓搭配。結(jié)合語境，“當點擊的時候，一半的鋼筆會____電流。”根據(jù)動賓搭配，本題需要一個動詞來搭配電流，考查四個選項，[A]移除[B]削弱[C]傳遞[D]打擾 A選項更符合語境。

　　7.【答案】 D

　　【解析】時間狀語的考查。結(jié)合語境，“___被獨自留在房間，學生會....”,因此，這是一個非常明顯的時間狀語從句。正選為D.

　　8. 【答案】A

　　【解析】動詞辨析。結(jié)合原文語境，由who 引導的定語從句修飾前面的學生，而在定語從句中，又出現(xiàn)由what引導的賓語從句。結(jié)合賓語從句的含義，“知道接下來會發(fā)生什么”更符合語境。

　　9. 【答案】B

　　【解析】結(jié)合語境，后面語境為并列關系，因此此題應填舉例子。B為正選。

　　10. 【答案】D

　　【解析】Discover 與上文中的Curiosity 相對應。

　　11 .【答案】C

　　【解析】本詞與后文的Basic drives 的詳細說明。與shelter一樣都屬于人類的基本需求。

　　12 .【答案】D

　　【解析】破折號的內(nèi)容是對前文instinct 的解釋。說明這種本能能夠促進新的科學發(fā)展，屬于因果關系。

　　13. 【答案】B

　　【解析】跟前文的drives 相對應。

　　14. 【答案】A

　　【解析】本題與前文的backfire相對應，都屬于貶義詞。

　　15. 【答案】A

　　【解析】從后文的試驗中，參與者應該被鼓勵參與，因此跟前文的堅持相對應。

　　16. 【答案】A

　　【解析】通過后文的after能看出這個事情并沒有發(fā)生，因此填預測。

　　17. 【答案】B

　　【解析】動賓搭配。

　　18.【答案】C

　　【解析】of 引導的后置定語。由一個人的好奇心所帶來的結(jié)果。

　　19.【答案】A

　　【解析】whether 引導賓語從句。

　　20.【答案】D

　　【解析】關聯(lián)對應，對應18題的outcome.

　　Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension

　　Part A

　　Directions:

　　Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)

　　Text 1

　　It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.

　　Mr.Koziatek is part of something pioneering. He is a teacher at a New Hampshire high school where learning is not something of books and tests and mechanical memorization, but practical. When did it become accepted wisdom that students should be able to name the 13th president of the United States but be utterly overwhelmed by a broken bike chain?

　　As Koziatek knows,there is learning in just about everything. Nothing is necessarily gained by forcing students to learn geometry at a graffitied desk stuck with generations of discarded chewing gum. They can also learn geometry by assembling a bicycle.

　　But he’s also found a kind of insidious prejudice. Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.Schools in the family of vocational education “have that stereotype..that it’s for kids who can’t make it academically,”he says.

　　On one hand,that viewpoint is a logical product of America’s evolution.Manufacturing is not the economic engine that it once was.The job security that the US economy once offered to high school graduates has largely evaporated.More education is the new principle.We want more for our kids,and rigitfully so.

　　But the headlong push into bachelor’s degrees for all -and the subtle devaluing of anything less-misses an important point:That’s not the only thing the American economy neds.Yes,a bachelor’s degree opens more doors.But even now,54 percent of the jobs in the country are middle-skill jobs,such as construction and high-skill manufacturing.But only 44 percent of workers are adequately trained.

　　In other words,at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head,frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing,one obvious solution is staring us in the face.There is a gap in working-class jobs,but the workers who need those jobs most aren’t equipped to do them.Koziatek’s Manchester School of Technology High School is trying to fill that gap.