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Test Paper Cloze test(20 points) One topic is rarely mentioned in all the talk of improving standards in our schools: the almost complete failure of foreign-language teaching. As a French graduate who has taught for more than twenty-five years, I have some (21)______ of why the failure is so total. (22)______ the faults already found out in the education system as a whole, there have been several serious (23)______ which have a direct effect on language teaching. The first is the removal from the curriculum (课程) of the thorough teaching of English (24)______. Pupils now do not know a verb from a noun or the subject of a sentence from its object. Another important error is mixed-ability teaching, or teaching in ability groups so (25)_______ that the most able groups are (26)_______ and are bored while the least able are lost and (27)________ bored. Progress depends on memory, and pupils start to forget immediately they stop having (28)_______ lessons. This is why many people who attended French lessons at school have forgotten it a few years later. Most American schools have accepted what is necessary and (29)_______modern languages, even Spanish, from the curriculum. Perhaps it is time for Britain to do the same, and stop (30)_______resources on a subject which few pupils want or need. 21. A. questions B. evidences C. ideas D. knowledge 22. A. Due to B. In addition to C. Instead of D. In spite of 23. A. errors B. situations C. systems D. methods 24. A. vocabulary B. culture C. grammar D. sentences 25. A. wide B. similar C. separate D. unique 26. A. kept out B. turned down C. held back D. left behind 27. A. surprisingly B. individually C. equally D. hardly 28. A. extra B. traditional C. basic D. regular 29. A. restored B. absorbed C. prohibited D. remove 30. A. wasting B. focusing C. exploiting D. sharing Rational cloze test(15 points) The history of the bicycle dates back to the 1790s. A Frenchman 31________ (create) the first two-wheel