专业英语八级（阅读）模拟题2019年(8)
(总分100,考试时间155分钟)
布鲁塞尔自由大学
PART II READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this ction there are veral passages followed by fourteen multiple-choice questions. For each multiple-choice question, there are four suggested answers marked [A] , [B], [C] and [D]. Choo the one that you think is the best answer.
(1)Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx has eight floors, ven gymnasiums, a football field and a planetarium. But there is one place off limits to its more than 3,000 students: the six-lane swimming pool, which has been dry for more than a decade. Flanked by empty bleachers, coated with dust and dimly lighted by a few fluorescent bulbs, who dull buzzing noi substitutes for splashing and cheering, the pool evokes an aura of eerie loneliness.
(2)Within the New York City public school system, though, the troubled Truman pool reprents a trend. Of the 50 swimming pools tucked inside the city's 1,200 school buildings, 10 are in unusable condition. At Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Manhattan, the pool, empty since leaks and filtration problems were discovered in 1986, has been ud over the years to store old chairs and desks. The pool at Walton High School in the Bronx has been clod since the 1980's, despite a $54 million schoolwide renovation. Next to Truman's competitive pool is a smaller practice pool, which is also empty, except for grime, spattered paint and a few cigarette butts.
生活压力大怎么办 (3)For the swimming enthusiasts of the city public school system, the empty school pools are a sad spectacle, hollow symbols of lost opportunities: to combat obesity; to provide summer job training in a city that has had to import lifeguards from Europe in recent years; to entice that subt of students who just may love the water even if they hate everything el about high school. "Swimming kind of puts you in a different frame of mind—there's noi and laughter, people feeling free and weightless," said Sana Q. Nasr, the principal of Truman. "Here we have a pool that needs a teensy bit to get it goi
ng, and to e it empty is heart-wrenching."
(4)The latest version of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's $13.1 billion, five-year educational capital plan, to be announced in **ing weeks, will include $60 million for upgrades to a dozen school pools, including $7 million for Truman, $5 million for Walton and $4 million for King, said Steven W. Lawitts, nior vice president of the School Construction Authority. "The pools are going to be fixed," Mr. Lawitts said. But the school system's capital plans have historically called for projects that never end up happening, among them the planned renovation of one of two pools at the George Washington High School campus, in Washington Heights. Also, the mayor's plan relies on $6.5 billion from the state, which is resisting a court order to give the city schools more money.
外甥英文 (5)"I would love it to be the ca that kids could swim next year at Truman High School," said Eva S. Moskowitz, chairwoman of the City Council Education Committee, who father swam on the Stuyvesant High School team. "People should not be fooled that simply becau the pool repair is in the capital budget it will happen."
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(6)Teachers and principals say that when school pools work, they are oas from whatever troubles may pass in the hallways and classrooms. Tension over test scores and safety concerns dissipates in the smell of chlorine, the creak of diving boards, the splash of the butterfly stroke.
(7)On the West Side of Manhattan, the purported existence of a pool at Martin Luther King Jr. High School was such a mystery that it inspired an article in The Advocate, a student newspaper on campus. Appearing under the headline "Unlocking MLK's Secrets," the article was accompanied by a photograph showing old furniture and a television t stacked next to the empty pool. At other schools, the situation is reverd. "The niors would always tell the freshmen they could go find the pool on the fifth floor," said Adam Kerzner, a Bronx Science swimmer who graduated from the school—which has no fifth floor—in 1997. "It was kind of like a hazing thing." Swim teams reprenting all eight Staten Island high schools vie for practice time at Curtis High School, the borough's only public school with a pool. "It's hectic," said Jim Meraglia, Curtis's athletic director.
1. Which of the following details of swimming pool in Martin Luther King Jr. High School is INCORRECT?
A. It has been ud as a storage of old chairs and desks since 1986.
B. It is included in the Mayor's five-year educational capital plan.
C. It is still in unusable condition despite a schoolwide renovation.
bozeD. It ever inspired an article titled "Unlocking MLK's Secrets".
2. Which of the following benefits of swimming is NOT mentioned in the passage?
调速轮A. Losing weight.
B. Keeping healthy.islamist
C. Relieving stress.
D. Forgetting troubles.
波特兰开拓者队>其他行业3. The author's tone towards the topic can most probably be described as _____.
A. concerned
B. optimistic
C. critical
D. sarcastic
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