15. B.
这句话的意思是：在印度人的帮助下，法国人以机智击败了英国人，赢得了早期很多战争。前面已经讲到了印度人是站在法国人这边的。很明显，这里使用了过去分词短语做the French 的定语，四个选项中，只有aided是过去分词形式。
16. A.
这句话的意思是：后来，英国人在对抗法国人的战斗中打的很顺手。上一句提到了法国在早期的战斗中处于优势地位，紧接着，这里有讲英国人在后来的战争中处于上峰。Later 后来;lately 最近;lastly 最后，终于;late adj. 迟到的，不能用在此做状语
17. C.
这里要表达的意思是“反抗，对抗”，而且根据句子的结构可以判断此处应用的是介词。所以只有against可以用在这里。opposite (位置)在…的对面;towards 朝，向;over 在…的上方.
18. A.
这句话的意思是：在决战中，英国的Wolfer 将军遇到了法国的Montcalm将军。这里表达的是“与碰面，遇到”，所以表主动，而非被动。与全文叙述的时态保持一致，这里也要使用一般过去时。
19. B.
这句话的意思是：两个将军在这场战役中都死了。这里所修饰的名词general是复数，而且表示 “两者都”而不是“两者都不”。
20. D.
这句话的意思是：因此，今天的北美大部分地区都拥有英国的文化和语言。这里是对文章的内容的总结。既然英国在战争中取得了胜利，那么它肯定获得了对北美的控制，因此北美到处都有英国文化的影子也就不足为奇了。Yet 然而;though 尽管;thus 因此。
Reading Comprehension
Read the following texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.
American Education System
The American educational system is based on the idea that as many people as possible should have access to as much education as possible. This fact alone distinguishes the US system from the most others, since in most others the objective is as much to screen people out as it is to keep them in. the US system has no standardized examinations whose results systematically prevent students from going to higher levels of study, as the British and many other systems do. Through secondary school and sometimes in post-secondary institutions as well, the American system tries to accommodate students even if their academic aspirations and aptitude are not high, even if they are physically ( and in some cases mentally) handicapped, and even if their native language is not English.
The idea that as many as people should have as much education as possible, of course, an outcome of the Americans’ assumptions about equality among people. These assumptions do not mean that everyone has an equal opportunity to enter Harvard, Stanford, or other highly competitive post-secondary institutions. Admission to such institutions is generally restricted to the most academically able. The less able can usually matriculate in a post-secondary institutions, as the Malaysians observed, but one of lower quality.
As of March 1982, only 3 percent of all Americans aged 25 or more had completed less than five years of elementary school. Seventy-one percent of those 25 or more had completed four years of high school or gone beyond that, and 17.7 percent had completed four or more years of post-secondary education. The median number of school years completed was 12.6. The number of tertiary (that is post-secondary) students per 100,000 inhabitants was 5,355. some contrast: the number of tertiary students per 100,000 in the population was 4,006 in Canada. In no other country, according to UNESCo data, was the number of post-secondary students above 2,700 per 100,000. Korea had 2,696 tertiary students per 100,000 inhabitants; Japan, 2030; the USSR, 1,890; Hong Kong, 1353; Malaysia, 472; and Ethiopia, 48.
Naturally, an educational system that retains as many as the American system does likely to enroll a broader range of students than a system that seeks to educate only the few who seem especially suited for academic work. In the American system, academic rigor tends to come later than it does in most other systems. In many instances, American students do not face truly demanding educational requirements until they seek a graduate (that is, a post-baccalaureate) degree. Many other systems place heavy demands on students as early as their primary years-though college may be far less demanding, as is the case in Japan.
1. According to the passage, the US is different from most other countries in ___.
A. culture.
B. economy
C. history
D. educational system.
2. The idea based in by the American educational system is that ____.
A. the result of the examination systematically prevent the students from going to a higher levels of study.
B. the US tries as much to screen people out as it is to keep them in.
C. as many people as possible should have as much education as possible.
D. The US should have standardized ecamination.
3. The american’s assumptions about equality among people result in ___.
A. standardized examination.
B. academic aspirations.
C. the idea of more people and more education.
D. Educational development.
4. In which countries was the number of tertiary students above 2,700 per 100,000?
A. In US and USSR
B. In Canada and Malaysia.
C. In Argentina and Canada.
D. In Canada and US.
5. The American educational system places heavy educational demands on students ___.
A. as early as their primary years.
B. before they seek a graduation degree.
C. after they begin to seek a graduate degree.
D. before they seek a bachelor degree.