专业英语四级（教育类阅读理解）模拟试卷1 (题后含答案及解析)
题型有： 5. READING COMPREHENSION
PART V READING COMPREHENSION (25 MIN)Directions: In this ction there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choo the one that you think is the best answer.
六笔画顺序 The Home Office has been threatened with legal action amid claims it made which mistakenly implied that 22 colleges were bogus or sub-standard. English UK, an association reprenting more than 450 language colleges, said the alleged error could bankrupt the institutions. Its lawyers are demanding nior Home Office officials issue an immediate apology and retraction. Last week, the Home Office said scores of colleges had lost their right to recruit overas students becau they could not meet the standards of a new inspection regime or had not applied to be on a compulsory register of institutions authorid to enrol overas students. Damian Green, the immigration minister, warned t
hat “widespread abu of the student visa system has gone on for too long”. Too many students had come to the UK to find paid work and bring over their family, rather than to study, he said. English UK said its colleges had not signed up for the register becau their cours lasted less than a year. Only institutions that offer cours that last a year or more have to be on the register. The association said institutions had decided not to voluntarily apply to be on the register becau it would have been expensive. Tony Millns, chief executive of English UK, said the Home Office had “allowed it to be inferred that all the colleges on its list were bogus, fronts for illegal immigration, or of poor educational quality.” bethune“苏东坡传简介This has been enormously damaging to the reputation of perfectly legitimate and high-quality business”胡连华照管, he said. A letter nt by English UK’s lawyers to the Home Office states the government published information that was “untrue, defamatory and gravely damaging to colleges’ goodwill and reputationsrudiment”行政解释. “The potential damage is potentially substantial, irreparable and unquantifiable,” it said. The Home Office wants to curb overas student number to reduce total net migration to Britain by 230,000 between now and 2015. A spokesman for the UK Border Agency said nior offic
ials would not be making an apology or retracting their statement. Ministers had made it clear that colleges not on the register were not necessarily tho with poor educational standards, he said. “鲁迅与胡适Some simply failed to submit an application to demonstrate they meet our new higher standards,” he said. “Widespread abu of the student visa system has gone on for too long which is why we’ve made changes to ensure only first-class education providers should be given licences to sponsor international students.” From The Guardian, November 8, 2011
