and this week sees still another indictment of U.S. education： New details on how thousands of 12th graders in selected countries did on a 1982 algebra test given by the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Hong Kong ranked first， barely ahead of Japan. The U.S. Finished 14th among the 15 countries， just ahead of Thailand， just behind Hungary. In a United Nations survey of what students in nine countries know about foreign cultures， the U.S. comes in next to last. One test of American 12-year-olds shows 20 percent unable to locate even their own nation on a world map.“Our students lag behind， and it doesn‘t bode well for our country，”says Herbert Walberg， a comparative-education expert for the University of Illinois in Chicago.“Fifty-five percent of America’s jobs involve information processing. If we don‘t have good， solid skills in language， geography， math and science， we’ll be at a severe disadvantage.”

　　61. American newspapers have carried the sad news about American education that __________.

　　A. Johnny can‘t read or write

　　B. many American students can‘t find job

　　C. American youngsters do not work hard

　　D. many American young people are illiterate

　　62. Which of the following sentences is not true according to the passage?

　　A. The United States was once considered the best in industrial research.

　　B. Japanese high-school students know much more than their American peers.

　　C. Only in these years have American students fallen behind foreigners in academic knowledge.

　　D. One out of four American teenagers choose to work before they finish high school education.

　　63.“With a straight face”in Paragraph 4 most probably means __________.

　　A. with a long face

　　B. with a clean face

　　C. with a serious expression

　　D. with an honest expression

　　64. 1982 algebra test given by the IAEEA showed that __________.

　　A. Thai students were better than the Americans

　　B. American students were better than Thai students

　　C. Japanese students were the best

　　D. Hungarian students ranked the 15th

　　65. According to Herbert Walberg， American students will be at a serious disadvantage because _________.

　　A. there will not be sufficient jobs for them

　　B. they lack the skills needed for their future jobs

　　C. more foreigners will seek jobs in the U.S.

　　D. almost all the jobs require information processing

　　PartⅣCloze Test (15 minutes， 10 points)

　　Directions： There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each bland there are four choices marked A， B， C and D at the end of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a sing le line through the center.

　　It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the effects of the two world wars in promoting all kinds of innovation. It should be __66__ also that technological innovations have __67__ the character of war itself by the __68__ of new mechanical and chemical devices. One weapon developed during World War II __69__ aspecial mention. The __70__ of rocket propulsions was well known earlier， and its possibilities as a __71__ of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the earth‘s gravitational pull had been __72__ by the Russian and the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in 1926. __73__， a group of German and Romanian pioneers was working __74__ the same line， and in the 1930s， it was this team that developed a rocket __75__ of delivering a warhead hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles， the V-2 rocket __76__ the beginning of the Space Age， and members of its design team were __77__f in both the Soviet and United States space programs after the war.

　　Technology had a tremendous social __78__ in the period 1900~1945. The automobile and electric power， __79__， radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life， __80__ a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution __81__ living through mass production of household goods and __82__. The rapid development of the airplane， the cinema， and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more __83__. The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years __84__ 1945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be __85__， although the process has not been without its problems.

　　66. A. notified B. observed C. commented D. detected

　　67. A. transformed B. imitated C. innovated D. simulated

　　68. A. introduction B. innovation C. elimination D. alteration