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It’s time for America to start following other countries’ leads when it comes to education, according to a new report by the Nat

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问题     It’s time for America to start following other countries’ leads when it comes to education, according to a new report by the National Center on Education and the Economy(NCEE), an organization that researches education systems around the world. The report studied the overall education systems in Canada, China, Japan, and Singapore, discovering education achievement in the U. S. has fallen to the middle of the pack among developed nations, but said that America can solve this educational crisis by looking at it like it looked at manufacturing at the turn of the 20th century.
    "We took the best ideas in steelmaking, industrial chemicals and many other fields from England and Germany and others and put them to work here on a scale that Europe could only imagine," the report says. By using the educational strategies of successful nations, NCEE says, the U. S. can catch up.
    "The most effective way to greatly improve student performance in the United States is to figure out how the countries with top student performance are doing it, build on their achievements and then, by building on our unique strengths, figure out how to do it even better," Marc Tucker, NCEE’s CEO, said in a statement.
    The report’s recommendation requiring students to pass tests at certain grade levels before continuing their education is likely to be controversial. Hypothetically, students would have to pass a " gateway test" at the end of middle school and again at the end of 10th grade in order to move on to the next grade. NCEE says gateway tests in other countries are well-designed, comprehensive, and standardized throughout the nation. "Because the exams are very high quality, they cannot be ’ test prepped;’ the only way to succeed on them is to actually master the material," NCEE says.
    The report praises the new Common Core State Standards, a state-led initiative launched last year that set guidelines for student achievement in math and English and has been adopted in 42 states. But it also says America needs to go further by expanding the system to the rest of the core curriculum with subjects such as history and science. NCEE also worries that relying on computer-scored exams to provide readings on student achievement, which the Common Core does, is a gamble.
    Other countries "are deeply skeptical that computer-scored tests or examinations can adequately measure the acquisition of the skills and knowledge they are most interested in," NCEE says. "If the United States is right about this, we will wind up with a significant advantage over our competitors in the accuracy, timeliness and cost of scoring. If we are wrong, we will significantly hamper our capacity to measure the things we are most interested in measuring. "
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
选项 A、American manufacturing has always been in the leading position.
B、Students have to command the knowledge in order to pass the test.
C、America has figured out the ways of other countries to develop education.
D、Gateway tests should be standardized for America to use.
答案B
解析 推理判断题。第四段最后一句提到gateway test质量很高，学生需要掌握所学的知识，才能通过考试升人高一年级，故[B]符合文意。由第二段可知美国的制造业曾经学习欧洲及其他国家的经验才获得迅猛发展，并不是一直处于领先地位，故[A]不符合文意；第三段提到美国要找出其他国家是如何做到提高学生成绩的，才能在它基础上发挥优势以做得更好，可见，这是美国教育的出路，目前仍未找到，[C]不符合文意；第四段是对gateway test的描述，并没有提及使其标准化的(standardized)，故排除[D]。
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