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Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers — now the school district recruits teachers from other countr

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问题     Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers — now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Youses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine(巴勒斯坦), visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they’d hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Hannon, and he was the first teacher hired.
    The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and it’s a partnership between Chicago Public Schools and the U. S. Government, Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1-B visas. The Government grants these visas only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can’t be filled with available U.S. workforce.
    Through the GEO, the school district has hired dozens of teachers from 22 different countries. Applicants must pass an English language test and specialize in math, science, world language or bilingual(双语的)education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year.
    What do the GEO teachers think of the American classroom? Hannon, who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School, says classrooms in Chicago are very different from those in Palestine. For one thing, he says, the fixed schedule that forces students to attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dull. In Palestine, the class schedule changes each week. He says in Palestine, the culture forces students to work hard because if they don’t they’ll be kicked out and put in vocational schools, which limits their career options. There is not nearly as much pressure for American students to do well. He says he has to do double the amount of work just to get his students interested.
Chicago Public Schools began to employ foreign teachers because______.
选项 A、there were not enough American teachers
B、a program for foreign teachers was started
C、the school board was interested in foreign teachers
D、foreign teachers taught better than American teachers
答案A
解析 本题从原文第一句话中可得出正确答案。芝加哥公立学校从国外聘请老师来解决本土老师的缺乏(to help solve a shortage of teachers)。故A为正确答案。
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