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The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the

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问题     The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s, but especially【C1】______the Depression of the 1930’s, the United States experienced a【C2】______birth rate. Then with the prosperity【C3】______on by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed it, young people married and【C4】______households earlier and began to【C5】______larger families than had their【C6】______during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106. 2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955.【C7】______economics was probably the most important【C8】______, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed【C9】______the idea of the family also helps to【C10】______this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming【C11】______the first grade by the mid—1940’s and became a【C12】______by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself【C13】______. The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945.【C14】______, large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for better-paying jobs elsewhere.
    【C15】______, in the 1950’s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the 1930’s no longer made【C16】______; keeping youths ages sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high 【C17】______for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators【C18】______turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and【C19】______. The system no longer had much【C20】______in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.
【C2】
选项 A、accelerating
B、strengthening
C、declining
D、fluctuating
答案C
解析 本题应根据下文来解答。下文中提到，随着第二次世界大战带来的经济繁荣，这个时代的年轻人比起他们经历过大萧条的前辈，结婚更早，并且生育的子女也更多。出生率上升到……。因此，此处关于大萧条时期的婴儿出生率应该填declining“倾斜的，衰退中的”。
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