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  3. From Taiwan to Algeria, thousands of foreigners【S1】______to U.S. universitie

From Taiwan to Algeria, thousands of foreigners【S1】______to U.S. universitie

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问题     From Taiwan to Algeria, thousands of foreigners【S1】______to U.S. universities to study. Those who come praise the libraries and the research facilities. Others praise the informality of the classroom where teachers encourage students to analyze and question what they read. Still others praise the【S2】______at universities, which pushes students to be creative thinkers as well as【S3】______thinkers. Yet, despite the high quality of many universities, tests given by the United Nations reveal there are some【S4】______in the educational quality in U.S. schools. Some call it "cultural illiteracy." This means that on general-knowledge questions concerning world topics, these students【S5】______very low.
    For example, many thought that the population of the U. S. was【S6】______than that of the PRC(中国). Some said that Picasso painted in the twelfth century. Many did not even know when Christopher Columbus came to America.
    Another area Where students performed【S7】______was geography. The United States【S8】______sixth among ten nations. This survey showed that students in Sweden, Germany and Japan all did better than U.S. students. Britons, Italians, and Russians did worse. Most【S9】______was that 14 percent of the students tested in U.S. schools could not find their own country on a map. These students also had little knowledge about where Vietnam or India is. Although U.S. and Russian students were good at locating each other’s countries, they【S10】______geographical knowledge about the rest of the world.

[A] scored         [F] less          [K] weaknesses
[B] properly       [G] lacked        [L] critical
[C] disturbing     [H] atmosphere    [M] became
[D] enter          [I] flock         [N] larger
[E] acquired       [J] ranked        [O] poorly [br] 【S4】
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答案 K
解析 Yet提示空格所在句和上一句形成转折。同时despite后面的内容也与空格所在的后半部分形成转折，前面一直在强调优点，因此这里应填weaknesses。
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