1 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is ONE WORD MORE than you need.

A. relevant            B. democratically            C. dumped            D. count        E. tested        F. federally G. determine          H. expertise                  I. open-minded       J. trial          K. elected

Please Let Education Alone

There is something badly wrong with the way standards for school science being set in the US. When the Texas State Board of Education voted in new standards last week, it left the door open for teaching creationism in the name of science in    1    funded schools. These must be closed, and quickly.

Because standards are set at state level, students in one state might be learning different science and using different textbooks than students in another. What is worse, the state boards of education that are responsible for standards and textbooks are made up of    2    officials who lack any specific skills or qualifications in the    3    areas of science or education. As we saw in the 2005    4    over teaching intelligent design in Dover, Pennsylvania, and are now seeing in Texas, school boards have become a political battleground. Many board members appear to be acting on behalf of religious groups like local churches or the Discovery Institute.

School science standards should be set up by people who understand science and science education. At the same time, it is dangerous to argue that the powers of    5    voted officials should be taken away if they don’t produce the outcome you want. Yet that is what may happen in Texas. Some lobbyists have introduced legislation that would transfer authority for textbooks and curricula to the Texas Education Agency.

Is there a way out of this impasse? One possibility is that candidates for school boards should be    6    before they stand. Another is for the pro-science try to engage more fully with the democratic process. After the Dover trial, board members who favored intelligent design were    7    by the voters. Something similar could happen in Texas.

Another possibility is to push decisions further up the democratic ladder. President Barrack Obama has already called for all states to have the same achievement standards, raising hopes that he might push for federal standards across all US schools. While this might drive conservative insane, it would put an end to the present situation in which an accident of geography can    8    whether a child is taught valid science.

Obama has already made remarkable changes in Washington by restoring scientific    9    to its rightful place in government. Many teachers and scientists would like to see him do the same in the place where it can    10    most: in the classroom.

2 . For those who have gone through hunger, they see Yuan Longping as a hero who solved the problem of food ________.

A．formation

B．shortage

C．ignorance

D．expertise

3 . Literally, overcapacity (产能过剩) pressured operating margins (利润), impacting players that lack scale or management ________to reduce costs.

A．stability

B．fluency

C．persistence

D．expertise

4 . 也正是你们用专业知识对病毒进行了新的了解，以建立我们战胜病毒的信心。是你值得所有的赞美和爱！对于你无私的贡献，我永远无法表达我们的感激之情。（汉译英）