26.What is commonly regarded as the cause of grade inflation?（細(xì)節(jié)） 27. What was the original purpose of grade forgiveness?（細(xì)節(jié)） 28. According to Paragraph 5, grade forgiveness enables colleges to ____（細(xì)節(jié)） 29. What does the phrase "to be aligned" (Para. 6) most probably mean?（單詞） 30. The author examines the practice of grade forgiveness by ____（主旨） A. assessing its feasibility. B. analyzing the causes behind it. C. comparing different views on it. D. listing its long-run effects. 題干多次出現(xiàn)grade forgiveness，為主旨詞，30題的主旨為考察文章結(jié)構(gòu)，27題問(wèn)主旨詞目的，28題問(wèn)主旨詞能干什么，所以A的可行性和C的不同觀點(diǎn)不能對(duì)應(yīng)。 26.What is commonly regarded as the cause of grade inflation? A. The change of course catalogs. B. Students' indifference to GPAs. C. Colleges' neglect of GPAs. D. The influence of consumer culture. 定位grade inflation在第一段第一句，Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs (grade-point averages) over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.忽略插入語(yǔ)部分，is often considered可以對(duì)應(yīng)題干意思，所以后面的內(nèi)容為回答問(wèn)題所問(wèn)，只有D的consumer 出現(xiàn)，所以選D 27. What was the original purpose of grade forgiveness? A. To help freshmen adapt to college learning. B. To maintain colleges' graduation rates. C. To prepare graduates for a challenging future. D. To increase universities' income from tuition. 因?yàn)間rade forgiveness為主旨詞，所以定位the original purpose，在第三段第二句When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.中的this practice指代前一句的this little-known practice，而this little-known practice指代第二句的主語(yǔ)Grade forgiveness，所以此句回答問(wèn)題所問(wèn)，it was usually limited to freshmen，選項(xiàng)中只有A對(duì)應(yīng)大一，所以選A 28. According to Paragraph 5, grade forgiveness enables colleges to ____ A. obtain more financial support.（比較級(jí)） B. boost their student enrollments. C. improve their teaching quality. D. meet local governments' needs. 定位colleges，在第一句，That said, there is a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges' own needs as well.中的satisfies colleges' own needs回答問(wèn)題所問(wèn)，但沒(méi)有明確內(nèi)容，沒(méi)有代詞，所以不能是前指代，所以下面的內(nèi)容會(huì)說(shuō)明內(nèi)容，所以看下一句，F(xiàn)or public institutions, statefunds are sometimes tied partly to their success on metrics such as graduation rates and student retention—so better grades can, by boosting figures like those,mean more money.只出現(xiàn)了A的more financial support，并且原文也是比較級(jí)mean more money，所以選A ? 29. What does the phrase "to be aligned" (Para. 6) most probably mean? A. To counterbalance each other. B. To complement each other. C. To be identical with each other. D. To be contradictory to each other. 原句On this, students' and colleges' incentives seem

to be aligned

.這樣來(lái)說(shuō)，學(xué)生和學(xué)校的刺激看起來(lái)

to be aligned

。本句無(wú)法判斷，但出現(xiàn)了This，所以看前一句二者的關(guān)系，Since students and parents expect a colleges degree to lead to a job, it is in the best interest of a school to turn out graduates who are as qualified as possible—or at least appear to be.學(xué)生是to lead to a job（找工作），學(xué)校是to turn out graduates（產(chǎn)生畢業(yè)生），所以A的counterbalance 使平衡不能對(duì)應(yīng)，B的complement 補(bǔ)充不能對(duì)應(yīng)，C的be identical with一致可以對(duì)應(yīng)，D的contradictory矛盾不能對(duì)應(yīng)，所以選C 30. The author examines the practice of grade forgiveness by ____ A. assessing its feasibility. B. analyzing the causes behind it. C. comparing different views on it. D. listing its long-run effects. 只剩BD，D的long-run effects在所有選項(xiàng)的定位句中沒(méi)有提到，26題的定位句Grade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs (grade-point averages) over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.27題定位句When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.28題定位句That said, there is a way in which grade forgiveness satisfies colleges' own needs as well.29題定位句Since students and parents expect a colleges degree to lead to a job, it is in the best interest of a school to turn out graduates who are as qualified as possible—or at least appear to be.都沒(méi)有出現(xiàn)任何內(nèi)容對(duì)應(yīng)long-run effects（長(zhǎng)期影響），而B(niǎo)的背后原因卻能找到對(duì)應(yīng)（is often considered、it was usually limited to freshmen、satisfies colleges' own needs），所以選B