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  3. The kids who grew up on "Star Trek" can’t find (1)_____ way around Earth. Americans can (2)_____ direct to England, but only

The kids who grew up on "Star Trek" can’t find (1)_____ way around Earth. Americans can (2)_____ direct to England, but only

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问题     The kids who grew up on "Star Trek" can’t find (1)_____ way around Earth.
    Americans can (2)_____ direct to England, but only half can find (3)_____ on a map of Europe. They can fly almost (4)_____ in the United States for a few hundred dollars, but they put New York State in 37 places on both coasts. When they look for the United States (5)_____, they (6)_____ it in China, Australia, Brazil, Russia, India and Botswana.
    For people who are supposed to be leaders of the (7)_____ world, Americans are (8)_____ dumb, according to a survey conducted for the National Geographic Society.
    In many school (9)_____, geography has been mixed with history (10)_____ melted down into social studies. Social studies has been processed into" teacher resource packages "and (11)_____ of good writing, excitement, color and any ideas that aren’t simplistic; too (12)_____ and too deadening to hold students’ attention.
    In the last few years, evidence of America s educational (13)_____ has prompted hundreds of studies, generated baskets (14)_____ legislation and moved parents into advocacy groups. But there’s (15)_____ to show that the trend has been (16)_____.
    NO matter (17)_____ you try, you can’t make it seem (18)_____ that many Americans say pandas come from Panama, the Summer Olympic Games were held in Vietnam or (19)_____ Iraq, and Columbus was trying to get to Europe when he bumped into (20)_____.

选项 A、geographically
B、especially
C、somewhat
D、extremely
答案A
解析 本题为语义题。geographically指地理上地；especially指尤其，特别地；somewhat指某种程度上来说；extremely指极为特别。全文主要讲美国人对地理常识的缺乏。
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