上海市静安区2014年5月高三三模试卷 英语
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
(A)
One-room schools are part of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing for "the way things were." One-room schools are（25）________ endangered species, however. Today, of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools, more than 350 are in Nebraska. The rest are scattered through a few other states（26 ）______ have on their road maps wide-spaces between towns.（27）______ ______ there are hardly any left, educators are beginning to think that maybe there is something yet （28）______(learn) from one-room schools, something that served the pioneers that might serve as well today. Progressive educators have come up with progressive-sounding names like "peer-group teaching" and "multi-age grouping" for educational procedures that occur naturally in the one-room schools. In a one-room schools the children teach each other because the teacher is busy part of the Time teaching（29）______ else. A fourth grader (30) ______ work at a fifth-grade level in math and a third-grade level in English without the stigma (31)______(associate) with being left back or the pressures of being skipped ahead. A youngster with a learning disability can find his or her own level without (32) ______(separate) from the other pupils. In larger urban and suburban schools today, this is called "mainstreaming". A few hours is a small school that has only one classroom and becomes clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska is (33) ______ their children have to go to a one-room school.
