This is the end of the Listening Test.You will now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the Answer Sheet. SectionⅡ：Reading Test 50 points Instructions: ◆ There are three parts to the test,each including one reading passage. The test will take approximately 40 minutes. There will be NO extra time to transfer answers to the Answer Sheet;therefore,you should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task. Part 1:Questions 21-30 are based on the following passage.(20 points,2 points each) School Choice Program The United States has about ninety-thousand public schools.The Department of Education reported this month that nine percent of these schools have failed to meet learning requirements.Education Department officials say they had not expected so many schools to perform poorly. States identified more than eight-thousand schools as failing to provide a good education.They did so after students in these schools did not perform well on tests for two years.Many of the failing schools are in poor areas of big cities. There are about forty-seven-million students in public schools in the United States. Most of these students must attend the school closest to their homes.Now,a law approved earlier this year provides a new choice. President Bush signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in January.The act says children in failing public schools can choose to attend better schools in their local school area.The school systems must help pay transportation costs for students who choose to attend other schools. The law also calls for all students in grades three through eight to be tested each year in reading and mathematics.Department of Education officials praise the law as especially helpful to poor families who live in areas with failing schools. The law is to take effect in the fall when the new school year begins.Some states, however,are having difficulty deciding how and when to enact it.Massachusetts,for example,says it will not know until next winter which schools it should identify as failing. That is when the state will receive the results of the most recent student tests. Other school systems have already put the law into effect.Montgomery County, 95This is the end of the Listening Test. You will now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the Answer Sheet. Section II : Reading Test 50 points Instructions: • There are three parts to the test , each including one reading passage. test will take approximately 40 minutes. • There will be NO extra time to transfer answers to the Answer Sheet; therefore , you should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task. Part 1: Questions 21 - 30 are based on the following passage. (20 points,2 points each) School Choice Program The United States has about ninety-thousand public schools. The Department of Education reported this month that nine percent of these schools have failed to meet learning requirements. Education Department officials say they had not expected so many schools to perform poorly. States identified more than eight-thousand schools as failing to provide a good education. They did so after students in these schools did not perform well on tests for two years. Many of the failing schools are in poor areas of big cities. There are about forty-seven-million students in public schools in the United States. Most of these students must attend the school closest to their homes. Now , a law approved earlier this year provides a new choice. President Bush signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in January. The act says children in failing public schools can choose to attend better schools in their local school area. The school systems must help pay transportation costs for students who choose to attend other schools. The law also calls for all stud巳nts in grades three through eight to be tested each year in reading and mathematics. Department of Education officials praise the law as especially helpful to poor families who live in areas with failing schools. The law is to take effect in the fall when the new school year begins. Some states, however, are having difficulty deciding how and when to enact it. Massachusetts, for example , says it will not know until 巳xt winter which schools it should identify as failing. That is when the state will receive the results of the most recent student tests. Other school systems have already put the law into effect. Montgomery County , 95