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The weather in Texas may have cooled since the recent extreme heat, but the temperature will be high at the State Board of Educa

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问题     The weather in Texas may have cooled since the recent extreme heat, but the temperature will be high at the State Board of Education meeting in Austin this month as officials debate how climate change is taught in Texas schools.
    Pat Hardy, who sympathizes with views of the energy sector, is resisting the proposed changes to science standards for pre-teen pupils. These would emphasize the primacy of human activity in recent climate change and encourage discussion of mitigation measures.
    Most scientists and experts sharply dispute Hardy’s views. "They casually dismiss the career work of scholars and scientists as just another misguided opinion. " says Dan Quinn, senior communications strategist at the Texas Freedom Network, a non-profit group that monitors public education. " What millions of Texas kids learn in their public schools is determined too often by the political ideology of partisan board members, rather than facts and sound scholarship. "
    Such debates reflect fierce discussions across the US and around the world, as researchers, policymakers, teachers and students step up demands for a greater focus on teaching about the facts of climate change in schools.
    A study last year by the National Center for Science Education, a non-profit group of scientists and teachers, looking at how state public schools across the country address climate change in science classes, gave barely half of US states a grade B + or higher. Among the 10 worst performers were some of the most populous states, including Texas, which was given the lowest grade (F) and has a disproportionate influence because its textbooks are widely sold elsewhere.
    Glenn Branch, the centre’s deputy director, cautions that setting state-level science standards is only one limited benchmark in a country that decentralises decisions to local school boards. Even if a state is considered a high performer in its science standards, " that does not mean it will be taught" , he says.
    Another issue is that while climate change is well integrated into some subjects and at some ages—such as earth and space sciences in high schools—it is not as well represented in curricula for younger children and in subjects that are more widely taught, such as biology and chemistry.  It is also less prominent in many social studies courses.
    Branch points out that, even if a growing number of official guidelines and textbooks reflect scientific consensus on climate change, unofficial educational materials that convey more slanted perspectives are being distributed to teachers. They include materials sponsored by libertarian think-tanks and energy industry associations.
In Paragraph 1, the weather in Texas is mentioned to_________.
选项 A、forecast a policy shift in Texas schools
B、stress the consequences of climate change
C、indicate the atmosphere at the board meeting
D、draw the public’s attention to energy shortages
答案C
解析 根据题干中的Paragraph 1和the weather in Texas定位到第一段，其中关于得克萨斯州天气的内容为该段第一句前半句，即“在遭遇最近的酷热之后，得克萨斯州的天气可能已经凉快下来了”，之后由 but引出文章的主题，即“本月在奥斯汀召开的州教育委员会会议上，“温度”将居高不下，因为官员们正在辩论得克萨斯州的学校应如何讲授气候变化”，故文章开头提到得克萨斯州的天气是为了引出州教育委员会会议的讨论氛围，正确答案为C。选项A利用第二段第一句中提到的 changes 一词设置干扰，属于偷换概念且文不对题，故排除 A 选项。第一段主要提到的是讨论教气候变化的问题，而不是B选项中的“气候变化的结果”，故排除B选项。第二段开头提到“帕特.哈迪与能源部门的观点产生了共鸣”，其中energy sector不等于D选项中的energy shortages，故排除。
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