In West Virginia and in New York, one out of four students drops out of high

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问题     In West Virginia and in New York, one out of four students drops out of high school. In Washington, DC, the【S1】______are even worse. One half of all high school students never【S2】______Nationwide, the overall dropout rate is【S3】______29%. Many say they drop out because they are bored. Because of this, U.S. educators are trying to figure out a way to stop this【S4】______trend. In Milwaukee, some schools are having lotteries for used cars for students who stay in school. In Philadelphia, at-risk students are being【S5】______summer jobs for staying in school. But in a New Jersey high school, one principal is using money, not jobs, as an incentive(刺激).
    This school received a hundred thousand dollar【S6】______to pay students who are at risk of dropping out. When these students go to school on time, bring their notebooks, and do their homework, they【S7】______five dollars a day. This means students can bring home a twenty-five dollar check every week for going to classes five days in a row. While the program is new, the principal claims that he has already achieved a higher rate of【S8】______with this money incentive. But some say it is too early to talk about the program’s【S9】______. Still others feel that even if it does work, using money as an incentive is【S10】______

[A] appropriately       [F] disturbing        [K] approximately
[B] misleading          [G] awarded           [L] rewarded
[C] positive            [H] contents          [M] earn
[D] success             [I] statistics        [N] grant
[E] absence             [J] graduate          [O] attendance [br] 【S1】

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答案 I

解析 从In West Virginia and in New York和In Washington,D.C.以及空格所在句中的even worse可以看出空格前后两句属于对比关系,而明显有对比内容的是统计数据,因此选statistics。该词是one out of four和One half of all的上义词。注意absence和drops out属于不同的概念,因此不能选absence。
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