2001年在职攻读硕士学位全国联考教育硕士英语二试题

o takes aim at teacher training. Every state requires that teachers be licensed,a process that can involve up to two years of education classes, even for those who have auniversity degree or a graduate degree in the field they would like to teach. Inevitably, thissystem does little to lure in graduates of top universities or professionals who would like toenter teaching at mid-career.

　　26. Which statement is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

　　[A] NEA is the largest society for teachers.

　　[B] Education-majored students are not as wise as people have assumed.

　　[C] Young teachers are paid less because their students don't do well enough.

　　[D] The study is both concerned with the effects of rise in payment and teacher training.

　　27. Increase in teacher salaries did not turn out so effective mainly because of the following reasons EXCEPT .

　　[A] the authorities do not set standards for qualified teachers.

　　[BI mediocre teachers postpone retirement.

　　[C] the salaries were not attractive enough.

　　[D] teachers didn't have equal opportunities.

　　28. According to the passage, the reason for clever students' refusal to take teaching as profession is because .

　　[A] it offers low pay.

　　[B] they have interest in other professions.

　　[C] it does not value productivity.

　　[D] it uses poor recruiting strategies.

　　29. "The data are striking: when the brightest individuals shun the teaching profession at every juncture" means .

　　[A] students doing well in study are willing to take teaching as a career.

　　[B] students doing well in study can't avoid choosing teaching as a career.

　　[C] students doing well in study are reluctant to be teachers.

　　[D] students doing well in study are not reluctant to be teachers.

　　30. All can be concluded BUT .

　　[A] teaching in U.S.A needs a certificate.

　　[B] the more outstanding one is, the more likely he is to choose teaching.

　　[C] American public-school teachers are paid in proportion to experience and years of schooling.

　　[D] increase in teacher's salaries is to attract more qualified candidates to teaching. 转贴于：博学在线_考研

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　　The Nobel prize in economics had a difficult birth. It was created in 1969 to mimic thefive prizes initiated under Alfred Nobel's will. These had already been around for 68 years, andpurists fought hard to stop the newcomer. Some members of the Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences still dismiss economics as unscientific, and its prize as not a proper Nobel. Earlywinners were among the prize's fiercest critics. Gunnar Myrdal, who shared the award in 1974,said the prize ought to be abolished (but he did not return the money). Milton Friedman, winnerin 1976, doubted the ability of a few people in Stockholm to make decisions respected aroundthe world.

　　By the 1990s, the Nobel committee had gained a reputation for intransigence. Gary Becker won only after a flood of nominations forced the cabal in Stockholm to act. The father of game theory won only after Mr. Nash's sudden recovery from paranoid schizophrenia,though the disease had no bearing on the quality of his work, the best of which was done beforehe became ill. Robert Lucas received a prize that many economists believed he should have hadmuch earlier. In 1998, the prize became the subject of countless jokes after the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge-fund firm whose founders included Robert Mertonand Myron Scholes, the 1997 Nobel laureates. The Merton/Scholes choice also highlighted another enduring problem with the prize:untimely deaths. Fischer Black, co-originator of the options-pricing model for which MessrsMerton and Scholes were recognised, died a year too soon to join his collaborators on thepodium. Last year, many economists hoped that Zvi Griliches, a noted econometrician who wasunquestionably deserving of the prize, and was suffering from a long illness, would win. He didnot, and died soon afterwards. Because the prize came into being so late, there is still a backlogof elderly luminaries waiting to be recognised. Paul Samuelson, one of the younger winners,and Mr Becker, who was a friend of Griliches, want the committee to take old age explicitlyinto account.

　　The committee could also cast its net more widely across the profession. Almost ail the laureates are also theoreticians; advances in empirical work and applications in the past two decades have yet to be paid due respect, a fact bemoaned by Mr Becker. Mr Samuelson adds that the economics committee's selection methods have excessively mimicked those used for the prizes in natural sciences: "If the right apple fell on your head, and you saw it, then you got the prize. But if you had a lifetime of excellence in all branches of physics, you didn't get it."

　　31. From the first paragraph, we learned that .

　　[A] the Nobel prize in economics was created under Alfred Nobel's will.

　　[B] Gunnar Myrdal was o