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Ⅰ.阅读理解A (2017·安徽蚌埠高三第一次教学质量检查)Less than 60 percent of students now entering fouryear pletion rate is lower than that of almost any other wealthy country. On Tuesday President Obama gave a nationally broadcast speech to students about the importance of staying in school.He spoke on the first day of classes at a high school in Virginia.He talked about personal responsibility，and used himself as an example of someone who overcame difficulties. “My father left my family when I was two years old，and I was raised by a single mother who had to work and struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give us things the other kids had.There were times when I missed having a father in my life.There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn’t fit in，” said President Obama. But he told students that problems in their own lives should not stop them from learning.“There’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher，or cutting class or dropping out of school.There’s no excuse for not trying.” This was not the first presidential speech to students.Ronald Reagan spoke from the White House in 1988.And George H．W.Bush spoke from a school in Washington in 1991.(保守者)criticized plans for the speech.Some called it “socialized education” or federal interference(干预) in local schools.Others feared it would be too political.Some schools decided not to show the speech.But the White House released(发布) the text on Mondayof | 
