Module 2 综合检测
时间100分钟 满分120分
第一部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Each new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the summer learning gap. Some call it the summer learning setback. Simply speaking, it means the longer kids are out of school, the more they forget. The only thing they might gain is weight.
Most American schools follow a traditional ninemonth calendar. Students get winter and spring breaks and about ten weeks of summer vacation. Some schools follow a yearround calendar. They hold classes for about eight weeks at a time, with a few weeks off in between. The National Association for YearRound Education says there were fewer than three thousand such schools at last count. They were spread among fortysix of the fifty states.
But many experts point out that the number of class days in a yearround school is generally the same as in a traditional school. Lead researcher Paulv on Hippel said, “Yearround schools don't really solve the problem of the summer learning setback. They simply spread it out across the year.”
Across the country, research shows that students from poor families fall farther behind over the summer than other students. Experts say this can be prevented. They note that many schools and local governments offer
