专四模拟试题 第12套

CLOZE [15 MIN.]

Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your answer sheet.

All Americans are at least vaguely __1__ with the plight of the American Indian. Cutbacks in federal programs for Indians have made their problems __2__ more severe in recent years. Josephy reports, “__3__ 1981 it was estimated that cutbacks in federal programs for Indians totaled about $500 million” or more than ten times the cuts affecting their __4__ fellow Americans. Additional cuts seem to be threatened in the future. This reduced funding is affecting almost all __5__ of reservation life,__6__ education. If the Indians could __7__ their __8__problems, solutions to many of their other problems might not be far behind. In this paper the current status of Indian education will be described and __9__ and some ways of improving this education will be proposed.

Whether to __10__ with the dominant American culture or to __11__ Indian culture has been a longstanding issue in Indian education. After the Civil War full responsibility for Indian education was turned over by the government to churches and missionary groups. The next fifty years became a period of __12__ assimilation in all areas of Indian culture, but especially in religion and education.

John Collier, a reformer who agitated __13__ Indians and their culture __14__ the early 1920s until his death in 1968, had a different idea. He believed that instead of effacing native culture, Indian schools should encourage and __15__ it.

Pressure to assimilate remains a potent force today,__16__. More and more Indians are graduating from high school and college and becoming __17__ for jobs in the non-Indian society. “When Indians obtain the requisite skills, many of them enter the broader American society and succeed. “ __18__ approximately 90 percent of all Indian children are educated in state public school systems. How well these children compete with the members of the dominant society,__19__, is another __20__.

31. A. agreeable

B. regardless

C. familiar

D. sympathetic

32. A. even

B. ever

C. greatly

D. further

33. A. Since

B. Up to

C. Before

D. By the end of

34. A. non-Indian

B. Indian

C. previous

35. A. respects

B. aspects

C. kinds

D. parts

36. A. except

B. regarding

C. besides

D. including

37. A. solve

B. dissolve

C. deal

D. treat

38. A. cultural

B. educational

C. social

D. severe

39. A. estimated

B. evaluated

C. settled

D. decided

40. A. agree

B. push forward

C. assimilate

D. deal

41. A. preserve

B. keep up with

C. acknowledge

D. confess

42. A. enforced

B. overall

C. contemptuous

D. unbelievable

43. A. in favor of

B. on behalf of

C. side by side with

D. far behind

44. A. in

B. through

C. from

D. during

45. A. realize

B. assimilate

C. acknowledge