首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Daffodils bloom and chocolate eggs melt as the long Easter weekend draws near. Alongside such pleasures is another, equally seas
Daffodils bloom and chocolate eggs melt as the long Easter weekend draws near. Alongside such pleasures is another, equally seas
admin
2022-07-24
32
问题
Daffodils bloom and chocolate eggs melt as the long Easter weekend draws near. Alongside such pleasures is another, equally seasonal: the annual outpouring from the teaching unions’ conferences, whose massed pedagogues can always be relied on to provide a few news stories to delight the headline writers.
Guaranteed are lamentations about parents and pupils, both inferior to those of yesteryear in various, not always consistent, ways. Fairly standard attempts to blame the raw materials rather than inadequate workmen, but these moans are given a ready hearing because they confirm the fears of many readers (and not a few editors) that the nation’s moral fibre is in shreds.
Also lapped up are the crazy conference motions, such as the proposal in 2007 for a curriculum based on fancy "skills" rather than fusty "knowledge". Union activists in most walks of life are well to the left of those they represent, and teaching-union loyalists are no exception. But such stories resonate because they fit the widespread stereotype of teachers as sandal-wearing, Guardian-reading lefties. It is one that has little evidence to back it up. The Guardian is indeed the profession’s favourite newspaper, but not by miles. And teachers, tendency to vote Labour is of recent origin, and may not last.
In the run-up to the 1979 election that brought Margaret Thatcher to victory, most teachers told pollsters they intended to vote Conservative. When in 1987 they defected, disillusioned by low spending on schools, they turned first to the Liberal-Social Democratic Party Alliance, the third party, before coming round to the charms of Tony Blair. In 1997, fifty-nine percent intended to vote Labour, nearly four times more than fancied the Tories. But fewer have voted Labour in each subsequent election. In 2008, the Times Education Supplement found overwhelming disapproval among teachers of Labour’s school policies and a shift in voting intentions.
Teaching is in some ways a natural job for the conservatively inclined. Like the police, teachers see too much of human nature to remain
starry-eyed
. And even the dogged idealists privately admit that traditional right-wing policies, such as physical punishment and academic selection, would make their jobs easier.
But teachers’ politics are also shaped by those who train them and by the nature of the work. Both are changing. While teachers were voting Tory in 1979, education academics were intoxicated with child-centred education and discovery learning, and were turning out new teachers in that mould. The academics are still pretty left-leaning, but nearly a quarter of new teachers now train in schools rather than universities, up from a handful ten years ago. All are coining to grips with a very different profession: one shaped by a national curriculum with tests and targets.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
选项
A、Teaching-union activists are more left-leaning than teachers they represent.
B、Teaching-union activists disagree on what should be included in curriculum.
C、Teachers are perceived by the public as a conservative group.
D、Teachers view themselves as liberal and left-leaning Guardian readers.
答案
C
解析
根据文章第三段第三句“But such stories resonate because they fit the widespread stereotype of teachers as sandal-wearing, Guardian-reading lefties. ”可知,教师穿着凉鞋,读着《卫报》,代表着左翼分子的刻板印象,也就是传统守旧的印象,故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/4nPd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Withthewidespreadcomputers,thereisanincreaseinthenumberofpeoplemakinguseofInternet.SomepeoplebelievethatInt
Theautumnrainshadcomeinwithtwoangrystorms,andLazyRiverwaswakingup.Inaweekschool(31)beclosedforEastervac
Mr.GallanthasmetMr.Brownbefore.
Mr.GallanthasmetMr.Brownbefore.
Manygrownpeoplenowbelievethat______.Adulteducationhelpsto______.
Youwillreadaquestionwhichsays,"Whichisabettersourceofnews--NewspaperorTV?"Writeanarticleforthenewspaper
Whatisthemainproblemcausedbytheusualwayofplowing?
Itwasamomentmostbusinessexecutiveswouldpausetosavor:latelastyear,GermansportinggoodspioneerAdidaslearnedthat
Austerityisawordoftenfoundonthelipsofpoliticiansandeconomistsatthemoment,butitisseldomheardfromtechnologis
ItisinterestingtoreflectforamomentuponthedifferencesintheareasofmoralfeelingandstandardsinthepeoplesofJap
随机试题
水样中氯离子含量大于30mg/L时产生干扰,应加硫酸银除去。
“TRUE/FALSE”数据类型为()
设z=u2+v2,v=x+y,v=x-y,则=[].
A.维A酸B.过氧化苯甲酰C.克林霉素磷酸酯D.米诺环素+阿达帕林凝胶E.维A酸+克林霉素磷酸酯伴感染显著者可应用
我国中小学开设的语、数、外等课程属于()。
从一个装有水的水池中向外排水,规定每周二、四、六每天排出剩余水量的1/3,其余日期每天排出剩余水量的1/2。如此连续操作6天后,水池中剩余相当于总容量1/72的水。问最开始时水池中的水量最多相当于总容量的:
原有权利
Yes,Isupposethingsmighthavebeendifferent,butwhoknows?Ihavemoretimetothinkthesedays,ofcourse,andit’sfunny
原型法生命周期提供了一个完整的、灵活的、近于动态的需求定义技术,下列()不是它的特征。
9
最新回复
(
0
)