时事英语02-7全真试题及标答(12)

高级时事英语期末试题

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A 1990 article in the Readers _____________ (51) focuses on the problem of _______ (52) in New York and the USA generally. It positions one man named _______ (53) as a hero in its description of the issue. This 'hero' did not have __________ (54) past the age of 16, until he joined the Air Force. His own late career in the field of _________ (55) was then characterised by rapid promotion. He was a high school teacher in 1963, and _______ (56) years later he was superintendent of the fourth largest school system in the U. S. He fired both _________ (57) who were not doing their jobs. He ____________(58) departments and jobs in New York. Perhaps these efforts will _______ (59) the New York Public School system which recently has been described as _______(60) in the U. S.

End of Reading Test

WRITING TEST 20 points

Write a short essay about equality and family life. You may write about the different roles within families, whether men, women and children in families share the decision-making and housework or whether just one person makes the decisions, or does the housework. You may want to compare differences between families. You may discuss the causes, problems or effects of the differences within and/or between families. You may draw on your own personal experience or write about equality and family life in general.

(Write about 150 words)