But there is a good reason why they can’t do this: they’d be unable to adapt to GCSE (英国普通中等教育证书）exams if they did. Sometimes, it seems, schools just can’t win.

　　1. Why do teachers oppose the students’ leaving school and working as apprentices?

　　A. The government urges teachers to concentrate on academic subjects.

　　B. The students are only wasting time working as apprentices.

　　C. Employers are under great pressure of taking GCSE exams.

　　D. Employers don’t give students chances to work as apprentices

　　2. Pressure for schools to provide pupils with career advice comes from ______.

　　A. Association of School and College Leaders

　　B. Education Act 2011

　　C. GCSE exams

　　D. OFSTED

　　3. What does the author think of teachers’ discouraging students working as apprentices?

　　A. Surprising

　　B. Understandable

　　C. Wrong

　　D. Right

　　参考答案1—3、A B B

　　【阅读理解】科普知识类

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　FILTON, just outside Bristol, is where Britain’s fleet of Concorde supersonic（超音速的）airliners was built. There, something remarkable is being created. Little by little a machine is “printing” a complex titanium bracket (钛合金支架), about the size of a shoe, which normally would have to be cut from a solid block of metal. Brackets are only the beginning. The researchers at Filton have a much bigger ambition: to print the entire wing of an airliner.

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