Section A

Directions：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

Young people in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading，maths and science， President Barack Obama said on Saturday，calling education reform an essential part of economic recovery.

In his weekly radio and video address，Obama said as many as a quarter of American students are not 26 high school and far too few young people are getting college degrees.

“It is an 27 fact that countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.Businesses will hire wherever the highly skilled，highly trained workers are located，”the Democrat said.“We have to 28 up our game and raise our standards.”

With the 2012 campaign for the US presidency heating up，Obama is speaking 29 often about education，a key issue for his political base.

His$447 billion job creation plan includes money for hiring teachers and school repairs，and on Friday he announced a 30 of“No Child Left Behind”，a decade-old education measure introduced by former President George W.Bush that seeks to hold schools 31 for students’performance.

“No Child”has been widely 32 for being inflexible，requiring teachers to adhere to（坚持）a narrow curriculum 33 mostly at ensuring that students pass standardised tests.

“Experience has taught us that the law has some serious 34 that are hurting our children instead of helping them，”Obama said，making plain that education will be one of his key 35 issues into the vote in 2012.

“These problems have been obvious to parents and educators all over this country for years.But for years，

A）acceptable I）graduating

B）accountable J）increasingly

C）break K）loosening

D）campaign L）necessity

E）conversely M）pick

F）criticised N）targeted

G）finishing O）undeniable

H）defects