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Bank Cloze Exercise 1 When Roberto Feliz came to the USA from the Dominican Republic, he knew only a few words of English. Education soon became a __47__. “I couldn’t understand anything,” he said. He __48__ from his teachers, came home in tears, and thought about dropping out. Then Mrs. Malave, a bilingual educator, began to work with him while teaching him math and science in his __49__ Spanish. “She helped me stay smart while teaching me English,” he said. Given the chance to demonstrate his ability, he __50__ confidence and began to succeed in school. Today, he is a __51__doctor, runs his own clinic, and works with several hospitals. Every day, he uses the language and academic skills he __52__ through bilingual education to treat his patients. Roberto’s story is just one of __53__ success stories. Research has shown that bilingual education is the most __54__ way both to teach children English and ensure that they succeed academically. In Arizona and Texas, bilingual students __55__ outperform their peers in monolingual programs. Calexico, Calif., implemented bilingual education, and now has dropout rates that are less than half the state average and college __56__ rates of more than 90%. In EI Paso, bilingual education programs have helped raise student scores from the lowest in Texas to among the highest in the nation. A) wonder F) native K) decent B) acquired G) acceptance L) countless C) consistently H) effective M) recalled D) regained I) hid N) breakthrough E) nightmare J) prominent O) automatically Exercise 2 If our society ever needed a reading renaissance（复兴）, it’s now. The National Endowment for the Arts released “Reading at Risk” last year, a study showing that adult reading47 have dropped 10 percentage points in the past decade, with the steepest drop among those 18 to 24. “Only one half of young people read a book of any kind in 2002. We set the bar almost on the ground. If you r