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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上大学英语四级分类模拟题515Part Reading ComprehensionPassage OneA Buffalo charter school, run by a for-profit company, received $7.2 million in taxpayer money last year to educate about 500 elementary and middle school students. But at the end of the year, the audit it submitted to the state listed
2、its expenses only in broad brushstrokes, including $1.3 million in rent for a building the company owned, $976,000 for executive administration and $361,000 in professional fees. Officials from the New York State teachers union, testifying at a crowded State Senate hearing, raised the case of the sc
3、hool, Buffalo United, as an example of what it said was wrong with the oversight of charter schools throughout the state. The union said the case supported its view that no new charter schools should be authorised unless oversight is strengthened. How much is profit? asked Andrew Pallotta, the execu
4、tive vice president of New York State United Teachers. There is truly too much we dont know and cant know. The unions concerns fell on mostly friendly ears at the all-day hearing, which had been called by Senator Bill Perkins of Harlem, an outspoken critic of the charter school movement. Teachers un
5、ions have generally opposed charter schools, which tend not to be unionised. On Thursday, the state union listed allegations against charter schools that included conflict of interest and outright theft. Brooklyn Charter School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, it said, had acquired, as a subsidiary, a bridal
6、shop linked to the president of the schools board. A state comptrollers audit of a second Buffalo charter school, Western New York Maritime, found that big-screen televisions and computer equipment had been sent to the personal addresses of employees, the union said. The corruption and the politicis
7、ation are the Achilles heel of the movement, Mr Perkins said. Officials responsible for authorising and overseeing charter schools said there was room for more accountability and transparency from charter schools, but they said that the controls were already robust. It is good that the bad actors ha
8、ve come to light, said John B. King Jr, the senior deputy commissioner of the state Education Department. I actually think that there is a lot of common ground here, and if we create the right conversation, there is room to both improve charters and increase the number.1、 What can we learn from the
9、first paragraph? AMost charter schools are run by for-profit companies. BA Buffalo charter school seemed to have over-spent last year. CCharter schools should be monitored over education quality. DThe expense-list of a charter school was not transparent.2、 What does New York State teachers union thi
10、nk of charter schools? AThey can regulate themselves well without outside intervention. BThey should subject themselves to teachers unions supervision. CThey should be canceled and no new ones should be authorised. DThey should get more strict supervision before new ones being set up.3、 The term Ach
11、illes heel in the fifth paragraph can be replaced by _. Avulnerable spot Bcharacteristic Cinevitable problem Dpeak4、 What is said about officials responsible for authorising and overseeing charter schools? AThey were determined to supervise charter schools strictly. BTheir behaviour on charter schoo
12、ls confirmed to their words. CThey thought they had put a good control on charter schools. DTheir supervision on charter schools was transparent enough.5、 What is John B. King Jrs attitude towards authorising more charter schools? AOpposed. BConcerned. CApproved. DIndifferent.Passage TwoDrink from p
13、lastic bottles can raise the bodys levels of a controversial gender-bending chemical by more than two thirds, according to tests. Experts have been concerned about the possible health effects of bisphenol A (BPA.an everyday chemical used in many plastic food and drink containers and tins as well as
14、clear baby bottleswhich is officially classified as toxic in some countries. A study found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate (聚碳酸酯) bottles showed a 69 percent increase in their urine (尿液) of BPA. Researchers did not say how much liquid was drunk per day. Researchers from Har
15、vard School of Public Health studied 77 students, who had first undergone a seven-day washout phase in which they drank all cold beverages (饮料) from stainless steel bottles in order to minimise BPA exposure. They were then given two polycarbonate bottles and asked to drink all cold beverages from th
16、em during the next week. Previous studies have suggested that high levels of BPA consumption are linked to birth defects, growth problems and an increased risk of heart disease. In particular there are fears that heating the bottles, as parents would do when warming their babys milk, causes the chem
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