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  3. Last year the nation’s best-known business consulting firm ran an international survey to try to determine why certain countries

Last year the nation’s best-known business consulting firm ran an international survey to try to determine why certain countries

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问题     Last year the nation’s best-known business consulting firm ran an international survey to try to determine why certain countries—like Canada, Finland, Japan, Singapore and South Korea—seem to have the best schools. The answer came back, somewhat unsurprisingly, that these countries have the best teachers; educators who are respected, rewarded, and held accountable for their performance in the classroom.
    This may seem obvious, but you would never have guessed watching the Democratic debate in Las Vegas the week before Thanksgiving. All the candidates give lip service to the importance of education to the nation’s future. And it goes without saying that accountability is the key to performance in any job. Yet when John Roberts of CNN asked the candidates if school boards should be able to reward teachers or fire them based on performance, all the Democrats headed for the hills, hemming and hawing and obfuscating their answers.
    What’s going on here? In short, the power of the teachers’ unions. The National Education Association is a big hitter in the Democratic Party. The NEA is all about job security, so you won’t find Democrats leading crusades to weed out bad teachers. The Republicans don’t do much better. They say they are reluctant to meddle in local school governance and instead push for vouchers so kids can go to private or parochial schools.
    In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired Joel Klein, a former Justice Department antitrust chief in the Clinton administration, to run the city’s chaotic schools. Klein managed to get a third of the school principals to sign an agreement that would allow them to be terminated for cause. And he got the teachers’ union to agree to give up this absurd privilege: in New York, for many years, teachers with seniority could show up at any school they wanted and teach there, shoving aside teachers with less seniority. Klein won the right to stop low-performing senior teachers from exercising this droit du seigneur. Some of them just went home rather than teaching wherever they wanted to—and were still paid in full. That doesn’t sound like an enormous step toward teacher accountability, but it was a struggle for New York to extract even these comparatively modest concessions from the teachers’ union, and it shows how far there is to go. Teacher accountability is at the heart of true education reform. If only the presidential candidates would even dare to discuss the problem.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3 that_________.
选项 A、the NEA doesn’t assess teachers based on their accountability
B、many kids would rather go to private schools than public schools
C、the Democratic Party has the right to reward or fire bad teachers
D、the Republican Party can intervene in local school administration
答案A
解析 推断题。第二段结尾提到是否能根据教师的表现决定奖惩时，候选人都支支吾吾，故可推断[A]“全国教育协会不是根据责任心大小来评价教师”为答案。第三段提到全国教育协会在民主党内的地位举足轻重，因为它的职能是保证职业安全。所以民主党内从来没有人搞改革运动，淘汰不合格教师。故排除[C]“民主党有权奖惩不合格教师”；共和党也表示不便干涉当地学校的管理，故排除[D]“共和党可以干预当地学校管理”；本段最后一句介绍了共和党人可以申请把孩子转到私立或教会学校读书，但并未说明[B]“许多孩子宁愿选择去私立学校读书”，故排除[B]。
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