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The International Community Textbook Makes Selection a Mode Different It’s often been said that history is written by the wi

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问题         The International Community Textbook Makes Selection a Mode Different
    It’s often been said that history is written by the winners. This was never more true than on March 12, when the Texas board of education voted 10-5 in favor of curriculum standards that would promote conservative takes on controversial issues in the pages of the state’s textbooks. The changes, expected to win final approval in May, include an increased emphasis on and sympathetic treatment of such Republican standards as the National Rifle Association and the Moral Majority. They also boast the advantage of capitalism and the role of Christianity in the nation’s founding. Even Thorn as Jefferson’s profile will be reduced; some board members were less than fond of his ideas about the division of church and state.
    This is not Texas’ first such skirmish. Since the 1970s, the state has tried to drop books that were seen as too liberal or anti-Christian, to omit passages on the gay-rights movement and to tone down global-warming arguments. But the nation’s battle over textbooks stretches back almost half a century earlier. In 1925, Tennessee’s Butler Act (which was abolished in 1967 ) made it illegal to teach"any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible. "The Scopes monkey trial" famously followed. In 1974, a clash erupted in Kanawha County, West Virginia, over the controversial writings of such authors as George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Alien Ginsberg. Opposition was so heated that some schools were threatened with explosions.
    As one of America’s largest textbook buyers, the Longhorn State has a good deal of sway over what is sold to schools nationwide. And while Napoleon may have maintained that " history is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon", getting Texans to come together on the past may prove to be their Waterloo.
What’s the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
选项 A、To describe the winners in history.
B、To reveal the social problem in America.
C、To give a brief account of Napoleon’s opinion.
D、To illustrate the textbook wars in the U. S.
答案D
解析 主旨大意题。作者在第一段描写德州教育委员会在如何选择教科书的问题上进行投票，第二段又对教科书的选择问题进行了横向和纵向探讨．而在第三段对教科书选择这一主题进行了总结。因此，通篇都在描写“美国的教科书之战”，故选[D]。
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