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四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】     It all began with good news. On August 17, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) touted gains onthe PARCC exam-short for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers-for economically disadvantagedstudents in grades 3 through 8. OSSE reported that those students improved by 9.2 percentage points in language arts and 6.4percentage points in math from 2016 to 2017, in terms of their readiness to perform at the next grade level.    The mayor chimed in with upbeat press releases. But in mid-September the local newspaper found a clerical error. That is,at one school, OSSE counted all students as economically disadvantaged, when in fact many at that school are notdisadvantaged at all. The mistake raised the aggregated scores that applied to lower income students. The error was significantenough that it inflated scores of disadvantaged students throughout the area. True, the test scores of disadvantaged studentshad improved, but by much less: 5.2 percentage points in language arts and 3.2 percentage points in math. Scores ofeconomically disadvantaged students haven’t improved as much as was initially reported.    The newspaper did not report the error at the time. Instead, it informed OSSE, which claims to have discovered the errorthemselves just 48 hours earlier. After confirming the results, OSSE posted corrected figures on its web page and informededucation agency heads, according to a spokesperson. OSSE did not take steps, however, to alert the general public to theerror-or the correction. That was left to the newspaper, which reported last week that “economically disadvantaged studentsstill made gains over the previous year but not as much as first reported because of the coding mistake.”    “Whom are we fooling?” asks Mary Levy, a respected budget expert who has been watching school officials fiddlewith the way they report the data for years. “The misleading use of data and the positive spin on limited achievement gainscontinues to undermine efforts to give education reform the urgency that it needs.”
46. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) An education initiative.
(B) A government aid program.
(C) A revised supervision regulation.
(D) An error with the report of statistics.

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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