Simulated Test 3
Part Two: Reading Comprehension
Ⅰ. Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question four answers are given. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET.
Passage One
(1) Youth who do not succeed in school become marginal learners. The strained relationship that they develop with the educational environment leads others to view them as deviant individuals, either temporarily on the fringes or more permanently out of the mainstream. The environment for learning starts to disconnect from these students who are having difficulties. As marginal learners, they fail to achieve full and satisfying involvement in the life of the school.
(2) Too often educators identify lack of personal effort and weak academic potential as reasons that marginality persists and is seldom overcome. Yet, the assumption that the cause of the problem lies only inside the learner is counter- productive because it releases the school from the responsibility for creating an educational environment that reaches all students. In fact, the reasons for marginality often lie in the lack of quality in the interaction between the learner and the environment. We suggest that by looking closely at these interactions it will be possible to gain an understanding of why so many learners are becoming marginal. Further, we believe that this understanding is a necessary prerequisite for action that will increase learning for all youth, including those who have not been successful in the past.
21. According to the passage, marginal learners are
A. deviant students.
B. students who do not get along well in school life.
C. idle youth.
D. academically incompetent
22. The expression “on the fringes” in the first paragraph means
A. peripheral B. extraordinary C. at lost D. in danger
23. According to the author, who should be blamed for causing the problem of marginal learners?
A. schools B. educators C. marginal students D. none of the above
24. After reading this passage, you can tell it is a passage from
A. a short story about school lives.
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