C. She wasn’t on the wall of fame.

　　D. Her mother was not well.

　　55. What does the underlined word “incentivise” most probably mean?

　　A. To encourage.

　　B. To exchange.

　　C. To hurt.

　　D. To force.

　　56. What can we learn from the passage?

　　A. The scheme proved successful before.

　　B. Most students didn’t take the scheme in the right spirit.

　　C. Twenty other parents have similar complaints.

　　D. The school has apologized to Mr. Robinson.

　　E

　　A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at 2:46 p.m. local time on March 11th. Japan's Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes later. The country has one of the best earthquake early warning systems in the world. More than 4,000 Seismic Intensity Meters provide information within two minutes of an earthquake happening.

　　There are also concrete sea walls around much of the Japanese coastline. But these measures proved no match for the powerful earthquake and tsunami.

　　Costas Synolakis is a tsunami expert in the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He says: "Japan is one of those most well-prepared countries on earth in terms of tsunami warning. They had a warning. I think what went wrong is that they had not anticipated the size of this event."

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