it physical, emotional, or educational) but the adults who regard ‘care’ as a stigma (耻辱).
It is not so much the young students, but the adults who cannot bear seeing, realizing, and accepting that a certain student is not like the others—and it is the same adults who instill these values in their kids. They want to lump all students together, make them conform to the ideals of ‘
‘good and fair’ they hold, and so, in the process, the real student is sacrificed. Why should every student act, feel, and do like Joe and Jane? Not everyone is like Joe and Jane, and therefore, educational policies should take this fact into account.
About 12 percent of all teenage students in the United States fall into the category of special students. As these students are exceptional due to natural or social reasons, their need for support and education is also exceptional.
51．What is the writer mainly trying to express?
A．Special students need special education.
B．Parents are the key to all educational problems.
C．About 12% of the educational policy should be addressed to special education.
D．Ideal world is different from the real world.
52．What is one of the key obstacles to implementing realistic educational policies?
A．special students B．western thinking
C．adults D．industrialization
53．What does the author mean by the ‘reality of the matter is that we cannot have a blanket policy that covers the educational need of every student’?
A．Educational policy should be equal.
B．Some students are more gifted than others.
C．Blankets are needed in some special schools.
D．Educational policies should be based on the needs of the real, not idealized student.
54．What kind of school the author is most likely to provide for students?
A．Large classrooms where every student gets the same attention from teacher
B．Private education for gifted students
C．Education based on the actual need of each student
D．Small number of students per classroom
55．The author himself was most likely like what kind of student in school?
A．A special student.
B．A gifted student.
C．An average student.
D．There is not enough information in the passage to answer this question.
Passage 2
1. We are so used to seeing cars on our streets and our roads that it is strange to think that only a century has passed since the birth of the man who invented the automobile.
2. On July 30, 1863, in the middle of the American Civil War, Henry Ford was born to a family of farmers in the state of Michigan. He was the eldest of six children. His home was much like that of many other children of that day; His parents were hardworking, careful, and sensible. On the peaceful farm, far from cities and stores, tools had to be made and repaired without outside help. Henry loved to make things. Even when he was still a young boy, he could take a watch apart and put it together again. Soon he was repairing the wa
