江西省景德镇一中2022-2023学年高二下学期期中英语试题

景德镇一中2022～2023学年第二学期期中考试卷 高二（17）班英语 第一部分听力（略） 第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） A Thousands of students, faculty and staff boycotted classes and staged rallies across the 10-campus University of Califomia (UC) on Thursday to protest dramatic cuts to the system's budget and proposed additional hikes in undergraduate fees. The authorities of the University of Califomia, stung by a 20% cutback in state support due to the state budget crisis, are planning to increase student fees another 32%. The University of Califomia system must chop $637 million out of its budget this year following the agreement between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the legislature on how to close California's massive $26 billion gap in July. Many of the protesters believe the constant increase in fees over the past decade is endangering the university's mission as a public university that offers students an outstanding education at a cost that middle- and working-class families. can afford. It's not just an economic crisis," says Shannon Steen, a UC Berkeley professor who helped form Save the University to protest cuts to the budget, "it's really a political crisis around the two-thirds rule in the legislature that holds the state hostage to a minority of legislators who are not doing what the people of Califonia want." Califomia is the only state in the nation that has a two-thirds requirement for the passage of tax increases and to pass a budget. These two rules are at the root of the state's chronic budget grief. UC Irvine Anthropology Professor Victonia Bernal spoke passionately to about 125 students in the Social Science Hall saying "the beauty of the University of Califomia is that it is an elite intellectual institution, but it is not elitist. If there were huge problems with the University of Califomia, that would be one thing. Instead, we are taking something that by all measures is a great success and tearing it down