問題詳情
四、閱讀測驗：20%，每題 2 分。 Connor Balthazor, 17, was in the middle of study hall when he was called into a meetingwith his high school newspaper adviser. A group of reporters and editors from the studentnewspaper, the Booster Redux at Pittsburg High School in southeastern Kansas, had gatheredto talk about Amy Robertson, who was recently hired as the high school’s head principal. The student journalists had begun researching Robertson, and quickly found somediscrepancies in her education credentials. For one, when they researched Corllins University,the private university where Robertson said she got her master’s and doctorate degrees yearsago, the website didn’t work. They found no evidence that it was an accredited university.“There were some things that just didn’t quite add up,” Balthazor told The WashingtonPost. The students began digging into a weeks-long investigation that would result in anarticle published questioning the legitimacy of the principal’s degrees and of her work as aneducation consultant. A few days after the release of the report, Robertson resigned. “In light of the issues that arose, Dr. Robertson felt it was in the best interest of the districtto resign her position,” Pittsburg Community Schools announced in a statement. Theresignation thrust the student newspaper staff into local, state, and national news, withprofessional journalists nationwide applauding the students for asking tough questions andprompting change in their administration. “Everybody kept telling them, ‘stop poking yournose where it doesn’t belong,'” newspaper adviser Emily Smith told The Post. But with theencouragement of the superintendent, the students persisted. “They were at a loss thatsomething that was so easy for them to see was waiting to be noticed by adults,” Smith said.“We’d broken out of our comfort zones so much,” Balthazor said. “To know that theadministration saw that and respected that, it was a really great moment for us.” After graduation, Balthazor said, he hopes to pursue a degree in creative writing orfilmmaking. Even though he doesn’t necessarily plan to stick with journalism, Balthazor saidthe past few weeks had been “surreal.” “Most high schoolers would never get even close to anopportunity to get to experience something like this,” he said.
【題組】31. What does the sentence “There were some things that just didn’t quite add up” mean?
(A) Some justice is needed.
(B) Some numbers are missing.
(C) Something is not quite right.
(D) Some calculation is incorrect.
參考答案
答案：C
難度：適中0.625
統計：A(0),B(1),C(5),D(0),E(0)