【题目】Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paregraphs. Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with aletter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.New Jersey School District Eases Pressure on Students-Baring an Ethnic DivideA) This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, New Jersey,sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its studentswere overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. Inthe previous school year, 120 middle and high schoolstudents were recommended for mental healthassessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district, students wrotethings like, “I hate going to school," and "Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned onething: that a grade, a percentage or even a poin is to be valued over anything else. "B) With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a nationaldiscussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. Atfollow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a "whole child" approach to schoolingthat respects “social-emotional development” and “deep and meaningful learning”over academicsalone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto,California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number ofsuicides in the last six years.C) But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents likeCatherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughter'smiddle school, who has come to see the district's increasingly pressured atmosphere as opposed tolearning. “My son was in fourth grade and told me, ‘I'm not going to amount to anything because Ihave nothing to put on my resume '" she said. On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of thethousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who saidAderhold's reforms would amount to a “dumbing down" of his children's education. “What ishappening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for thefuture,"Jia said.D) About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City, West Windsor andPlainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs, researchers andengineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniorswere admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians andstudents with perfect SAT scores.E) The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea.This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many ofthem are the first in their families born in the United States. They have had a growing influence onthe district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental musicprogram. They have been huge supporters of the dstrict's advanced mathematics program, which oncebegan in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which90 percent of the participating students are Asian-American, i one of Aderhold's reforms.F) Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to takesummer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honorsand Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Aderhold is limiting this schoolyear. With many Asian-American chikdren attending supplementary instructional programs, there is aperception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up toaccommodate them.G) Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups has grown steadilyover the past few years, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the division has become moreobvious in recent months as Aderhold has made changes, including no-homework nights, an end tohigh school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made it easier to participate in the musicprogram.H) Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of TheAsian American Achievement Paradox, says misunderstandings between first-generation Asian-American parents and those who have been in this country longer are common. What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boosttheir children into the middle class. “They don't have the same chances to get their childreninternships(实习职位) or jobs at law firms," Lee said. “So what they believe is that their childrenmust excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chances to excellater."I) The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years asschools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides. WestWindsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked inthe district for seven years and been chief for the last three years, said he had seen troubling signs. Ina recent art assignment, a middle school student depicted(描绘) an overburdened child who wa beingscolded for earning an A, rather than an A+, on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds thestudent with the words, "Shame on you!" Further, he said, the New Jersey Education Department hasflagged at least two pieces of writing on state English language assessments in which students expressedsuicidal thoughts.J) The survey commissioned by the district found that 68 percent of high school honor and AdvancedPlacement students reported feeling stressed about school "always or most of the time. " "We need tobring back some balance, " Aderhold said. “You don't want to wait until it's too late to do something. K) Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the Chinese-American mother of afifth-grader and an cighth-grader, believes the competition within the district has gotten out ofcontrol. Sue, who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dialit back.It's become an arms race, an educational arms race, " she said. “We all want our kids to achieve andbe successful. The question is, at what cost?36. Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed to take off campus.37. White and Asian-American parents responded differently to Aderhold's appeal.38. Suicida thoughts have appeared in some students' writings.39. Aderhold's reform of the advanced mathematics program will affect Asian-American students most.40. Aderhold appealed for parents'support in promoting an all-round development of children, instead offocusing only on their academic performance.41. One Chinese-American parent thinks the competition in the district has gone too far.42. Immigrant parents believe that academic excellence will allow their children equal chances to succeedin the future.43. Many businessmen and professionals have moved to West Windsor and Plainsboro because of the publicschools there.44. A number of students in Aderhold's school district were found to have stress-induced mental healthproblems.45. The tension between Asian-American and white families has increased in recent years.