外研版英语选修9：学业分层测评9

学业分层测评（九）
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1．New York is a large city i________by people from many different countries.
2．Detroit used to be a very p________city, but now it has been abandoned.
3．The b________soldiers beat their prisoners ruthlessly.
4．Nothing can frighten this f________boy.
5．No matter when the i________come, they will be wiped out clean.
6．She was openly________(敌对的) towards her parents.
7．The government worked in close________(协作) with teachers on the new curriculum.
8．Millions will face________(饥饿) next year as a result of the drought.
9．He________(骑上) his horse and rode away.
10．He bitterly________(憎恨) being treated like a child.
【答案】 1.inhabited 2.prosperous 3.brutal4．fearless 5.invaders 6.hostile7.collaboration8．starvation9.mounted10.resents
Ⅱ.阅读理解
A new law in Arizona requires high school students to pass the United States' naturalization(入籍)test.Immigrants to the United States must pass this test to become a citizen.The test contains 100 questions on the U．S.history and the government.
The Joe Foss Institute, an organization in Arizona, worked with lawmakers to create the law.Their goal is to pass a law in each of the fifty states to require high school students to pass the naturalization test.
Supporters of civics (公民学)testing are working in other states to pass similar laws.North Dakota passed a law in January requiring students to take a civics test about a week after Arizona passed its law.
The new state laws will increase the number of American students who understand how their government works.
Few students of the United States currently have this knowledge.A 2010 national test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP), showed only about
25 per cent of the students in their final year of high school had a good understanding of American democracy (民主政治)．Thirty-six per cent did not have even a basic understanding.
“And that is obviously a shame, and it is not only a shame.It is dangerous for a democracy to have people in a level of ignorance or apathy (冷漠)or both.”
John Hale is the Associate Director of the Center for Civic Education in California.The organization has promoted the ideas and behaviors of democracy for 50 years.
Mr.Hale thinks that it is dangerous when citizens do not know or care about how their government works.He says students do not only need to learn facts about the government.They should also learn how to take part in their local communities.In school they can learn how to work together to solve problems.Requiring high school students to take the naturalization test might be a way to improve students' civic behavior, he says.
“You know the saying：if it isn't tested，it isn't taught.”
【语篇解读】为了提高国民素质，美国部分州通过法律要求移民和高中学生参加入籍考试。

它会达到预期的目的吗？
1．As for American democracy，__________.
A．about 36% of the people have a basic knowledge
B．most Americans have no knowledge about it
C．there is no such subject in the schools' textbooks
D．less than 40% of the high school students have a basic understanding of it 【解析】推理判断题。

根据第五段“showed only about 25 percent of the students in their final year of high school had a good understanding of American democracy(民主政治)．Thirty-six percent did not have even a basic understanding.”可知，百分之二十五的美国高中生在高中的最后一年对美国民主政治很了解，百分之三十六的美国高中生没一点基本常识。

由此可推知，剩余的百分之三十九有基本的了解。

【答案】 D。