Question

請認真閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

Knowledge is power as West wanes

Every September parents travel with their children to help them enroll (注冊) at universities across the country. This does not make   36   in China.

But recently, a photo   37   at a university in Wuhan caught the   38   of Jeremy Warner, a commentator (評論員) with the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

The photo was of parents   39   down for the night in the campus gym made   40   to those who could not afford a hotel room.

Chinese commentators  and educators have pointed out that   41   kids to college does not help them adjust to campus   42  . But Warner read a totally different message from the photo.

He said that in the UK or other   43   economies, parents usually don’t bother to accompany their children to university.

To Warner, this was “a   44   sign of growing gulf in ambition that separates the aspiring (有抱負的) developing world   45   the tired, old, advanced economies.”

He said the future looks bright for the developing world. In   46  , and most other developing countries, going to university offers a route to a   47   future.

But in the West, “people have lost their   48   in self-improvement and seem already resigned to a future of gentle or even catastrophic decline,” Warner wrote.

He went on to analyze China’s   49   strategy: The number of college graduates is increasing at a higher speed.   50  , the focus of education is strongly on the sciences.

For Warner the   51   “is both an inspiration and a cause for alarm, for it vividly   52  how the West’s “monopoly (壟斷)” on knowledge—the biggest source of its relative wealth—is    likely to be   53   destroyed over the next decade.”

In his   54  , Warner suggested that the British government has much to learn about education from the   55   world.

36. A. notes                  B. headlines           C. uses                  D. tips

37. A. erased            B. shown               C. displayed           D. taken

38. A. target                 B. tension              C. attention            D. notice

39. A. putting               B. laying               C. sleeping            D. bedding

40. A. accessible            B. conventional      C. available           D. acceptable

41. A. driving               B. bringing            C. sending             D. accompanying

42. A. study                  B. life                   C. situation            D. habit

43. A. advanced            B. abundant           C. countless           D. outward

44. A. convincing          B. worrying           C. affecting           D. promoting

45. A. into                    B. out of           C. from              D. off

46. A. the UK               B. China               C. the world          D. Wuhan

47. A. better                 B. far-off                     C. changeable        D. preferential

48. A. interest               B. heart                 C. way               D. belief

49. A. economy             B. education          C. society                     D. college

50. A. Still worse          B. Otherwise          C. What’s more      D. Above all

51. A. photo                 B. future               C. university          D. world

52. A. proves                B. counts              C. explains            D. digests

53. A. gradually            B. instantly            C. completely        D. slightly

54. A. story                  B. end                   C. inspiration         D. conclusion

55. A. developed           B. developing        C. unexpected        D. suppressing

Answer 1

36—40 BDCDC 41—45 DBABC 46—50 BADBC 51—55 ACADB