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46. Most high school students drop out of school because ＿＿．

A. they have failing grades

B. they take no interest in classes

C. they are discriminated against

D. they are lazy and not intelligent

47. According to the passage ，which state has a law requiring school attendance

until they graduate?

A. New Hampshire

B. Utah

C. New Mexico

D. The District of Columbia 48. The underlined words “stick it out” probably means “＿＿”.

A. complete schooling

B. solve the problem

C. love having classes

D. believe in themselves 49. In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to_________.

A. analyze the reason why students quit school

B. suggest raising the compulsory attendance age

C. raise awareness of reforming high school education

D. wish to make laws to guarantee no education

50. From the passage ，we can infer the following EXCEPT that ＿．

A. the grades of most dropouts at school were acceptable

B. on average dropouts cannot get good jobs

C. classes don't appeal to dropouts

D. about 500, 000 high school dropouts are black and Spanish

Passage 5

People living on parts of the south coast of England face a serious problem. In 1993，the owners of a large hotel and of several houses discovered, to their

horror, that their gardens had disappeared overnight. The sea had eaten into the soft limestone cliffs on which they had been built. While experts were studying the problem, the hotel and several houses disappeared altogether, sliding down the cliff and into the sea.

Erosion （侵蚀）of the white cliffs along the south coast of England has

always been a problem but it has become more serious in recent years. Dozens of homes have had to be abandoned as the sea has crept farther and farther inland. Experts have studied the areas most affected and have drawn up a map for local people ，forecasting the year in which their homes will be swallowed up by the

hungry sea.

Angry owners have called on the Government to erect sea defenses to protect their homes. Government surveyors have pointed out that in most cases ，this is

impossible. New sea walls would cost hundreds of millions of pounds and would merely make the waves and currents go further along the coast ，shifting the problem from one area to another. The danger is likely to continue ，they say ，until the waves reach an inland area of hard rock which will not be eaten as limestone is. Meanwhile ，if you want to buy a cheap house with an uncertain