Take the case of public education alone.The principal difficulty faced by the schools has beenthe tremendous increase in the num

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问题 Take the case of public education alone.The principal difficulty faced by the schools has beenthe tremendous increase in the number of pupils.This has been caused by the advance of the legalage for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has beenreache@D@In view of the technological improvements in the last few years,business will require inthe future proportionately fewer workers than ever before.The result will be still further raising ofthe legal age for going into employment,and still further difficulty in finding employment when thatage has been attaine@D@If we cannot put our children to work,we must put them in school.
We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter weekwill be maintaine@D@We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class.Already thepublic agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since adepression began.They will be little better off when it is over.Their support must come from thetaxpayer.
It is surely too much to hope that these increases in the cost of public education can be borneby the local communities.They cannot care for the present restricted and inadequate system.Thelocal communities have failed in their efforts to cope with unemployment.They cannot expect tocope with public education on the scale on which we must attempt it.The answer to the problem ofunemployment has been Federal relief.The answer to the problem of public education may have tobe much the same,and properly so.If there is one thing in which the citizens of all parts of thecountry have an interest,it is in the decent education of the citizens of all parts of the country.Ourincome tax now goes in part to keep our neighbors alive.It may have to go in part as well to makeour neighbors intelligent.We are now attempting to preserve the present generation through Federalrelief of the destitute.Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federalfunds as public education may require.
What is the passage mainly about?______

选项 A、How to persuade local communities to provide more funds.
B、How to cope with the shortage of funds for public education.
C、How to solve the rising unemployment problem.
D、How to improve the public education system.

答案B

解析 主旨题。文章首先分析了公共学校当前面临的问题和产生困境的原因。在第二段阐明了问题为何难以解决的原因是:’Their support must come:from the taxpayer.因此.在最后一段作者通过分析得出结论:联邦资金必须投入。综上所述,B项“怎样解决公共教育的资金缺乏”应是正确答案。本题的主要干扰项是D“怎样改进公共教育制度”,过于笼统。
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