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It’s hard to get more white-fenced than

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问题 It’s hard to get more white-fenced than Naperville. In the western Chicago suburb, crime is an annoyance, not a problem. The streets are clean and the schools are some of the most impressive in the state, producing some of the brightest students who attend the nation’s best colleges. (1)____________.　　The rankings will be phased out over the next year, with 2007’s upperclassmen deciding whether to include such a rank in their official transcripts. By no longer ranking students, the Naperville School District 203 is squarely in line with a trend that is fast sweeping the nation, as more and more private and public schools are dropping the practice. The goal, proponents say, is to cut down on the hyper-competition and lessen the stress at such a critical learning point and maturation curve in kids’ lives.　　“It’s a high bar we set, and it should be,” said Naperville Superintendent Alan Leis. “But there needs to be more than wrestling over who’s better than who.” (2)______________.　　Some 80% or more public schools still report rankings to inquiring universities and colleges, but a growing number of high schools in the Chicago area and around the country—in mostly affluent districts from California to Miami to New Jersey—have already adopted the practice. (3)_______________. Even in Naperville, a valedictorian is still expected to address the class, but that honor is not chosen until the last weeks of a school year and is not forwarded on to schools in official transcripts.　　(4)_______________. According to Dr. Scott Hunter, a clinical psychologist and school consultant at the University of Chicago Hospitals who specializes in pediatric neuropsychology. “The reality is that we have made in the last 10 years more of rank than it deserves because some kids don’t really shine until they enter into adulthood, and they risk being ignored by the very places and people where they could greatly succeed,” adds Hunter, “ This is an artificial number in terms of where a person really falls.”　　(5)___________________.　　“It makes it a little more opaque for us on the admissions side, but we fully understand it,” said Jim Miller, director of admissions at Brown University. “It’s conceivable a student could get a B in gym and get knocked down 40 places in rank. So we’re getting more used to it, and probably half our applicants now come from schools that don’t have rank. “　　[A] Class rankings, a tradition at many schools, have long helped universities and colleges—especially the Harvards and Princetons of the world—weed out the weak students from the strong, the ones with not only promise but the ambition to excel and meet the difficulties of higher education.　　[B] But it’s vicious at the top—so much so that Naperville’s school officials recently voted to stop using a class ranking system.　　[C] A much higher number of private schools do not share their rankings, including some independent schools in Chicago that, for example, have societies that recognize the top 10% of a class but choose to allow the students themselves dictate who speaks at graduation.　　[D] Competitions among students for the title of honored graduates are very tight and are on the rise in a great number of private schools.　　[E] Schools just have to make certain, through student profiles and other means, the strength of a schedule and student performance relative to other students.　　[F] Not surprisingly, there is still lots of disagreement about the new policy; some parents are worried that it hurts high-achieving students’ chances of getting over the bar, while forcing colleges and universities to rely on perhaps less reliable or easier measures or on standardized tests like the ACT or SAT.　　[G] Students and their parents increasingly fight over who gets to be number one, and the damage that can be done—both academically and psychologically—to those who lose out far wins the benefits of the glory attached to such titles.(此文选自Time 2006年刊)
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解析1. B　文章开头提到，在Naperville犯罪虽让人厌烦，但还没有成为严重的问题。接着描述学校里学生良好的表现。这些描述与上文crime不相干，甚至矛盾。由此可以判断作者有意使前后文是形成对比关系，从而引出主题。选项B中转折词but，语锋转向反面，并提到取消班级排名制度，这又与下文段首The rankings will be phased out联系紧密，故为正确选项。此处D可成为干扰项，讲学生之间的竞争非常激烈并且有加剧的趋势，和上文有一定关联，但是与下文提出的取消ranking 没有任何联系，若选填则下文会显得很突兀，故排除。2. A　文章的首段提出关于class ranking 的主题，第二段接着讲到Naperville将取消class anking制度，这种做法受到普遍欢迎。本段引用观点是对上文中the goal 作出的进一步说明，但是提出我们不是仅仅找出谁更优秀，这表明作者是想通过对比引出下文。根据行文逻辑，上文已讲到取消ranking之后的情况，那下文必定是对传统的ranking介绍。A和C都提到了ranking，C继续讲取消班级排名的做法，但A中讲述了传统的班级排名为名校招生提供的方便，并且出现了universities and colleges，与下文同词出现做好衔接，故为最佳答案。3. C　本段首提出80%以上的公立学校依旧使用班级排名，但越来越多的学校开始不对学生进行排名，空格后再次以Naperville的情况为例，可见本题所在处应该也是具体分析学校开始不给学生进行排名这一情况。C A much higher number of private schools是与上句a growing number of high schools 对比之后构成的递进关系，进一步强调取消排名制的学校之多，故为答案。其中选项E会构成干扰，讲到学校只需确定课表是否合适以及学生的表现如何，看起来是新措施，但是与上下文语境不符，故排除。4. G　本题后面为引用内容，下文中Dr. Scott Hunter提出自己的观点，认为早期过多的排名会让那些进入中年之后才会出类拔萃的孩子被忽视，这表明Hunter反对排名，由英语行文结构可知本题所在处内容应该是对排名危害的概括性陈述。G概括提到the damage far wins, 其中psychologically与第二句中的psychologist前后照应，综上G为答案。5. F上文中Hunter提出了排名的危害，而空缺处的下文指出，取消班级排名会给学校招生标准带来一定困难，这是取消class ranking带来的负面影响，说明人们对此问题的看法依旧存在分歧，所以本题所在段应起到承上启下的衔接作用。FNot surprisingly, there is still lots of disagreement about the new policy过渡自然，故为答案。
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