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The Racial Discrimination in the Classroom The day my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Buzzeli, assigned my class "To Kill a

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问题                 The Racial Discrimination in the Classroom
    The day my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Buzzeli, assigned my class "To Kill a Mockingbird" still sticks in my mind, mainly because I remember being the only one in the room excited to tackle the Harper Lee classic. Unlike most of my classmates, I’d already read the book about a white lawyer representing a black man accused of rape during the Great Depression. I’d also seen the movie twice (my mother loved Gregory Peck). Mr. Buzzell was a British-born white teacher attempting to explain the complexities of racism and injustice at a mixed-race school in Augusta, Ga. , so the class discussions were pretty lively.
    Maybe it was because we were in the Deep South that most of my classmates weren’t much offended by Tom Robinson, the black field hand accused of raping a white woman. (1)______.
    But that was more than 20 years ago, in the 80s, when rap was just beginning on the streets of New York, Ronald Reagan was president and African-Americans were struggling to land significant positions within government. It is indeed a very different world today, a place where hip-hop dominates popular culture around the world and the president of the United States just happens to be an African-American man named Barack Obama.
    In early January, just before Obama’s inauguration, John Foley, a white high-school teacher in Ridgefield, Wash. , penned a guest editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that suggested it was time to stop teaching books that readily use the "N word." (2) ______. Foley identified " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Of Mice and Men" as three books that needed to be reconsidered immediately.
     (3)______. While these arguments are hardly new, they’re all the more important now given our rapidly changing attitudes on race, Foley argues. "I think at the time when we have this very articulate, smart and intelligent black man running the country, we don’t need to reinforce the same negative stereotypes to young minds," says Foley, 48, who’s received hundreds of angry letters from people across the country. (4)______
    Fole’s argument may sound simplistic and wrongheaded. But it does raise deeper questions about our comfort level around race, especially now. (5)______. Throw in not just the "N word" , but also, in the case of "Huck Finn", a portrayal of a childlike black man who seems to lack self-respect and dignity, and it’s easier to see why it might make some—especially sensitive white teachers—squirm with discomfort or even embarrassment right now.
[A] Stories that portray African-Americans as inarticulate and unintelligent souls in need of white America often offended both his black and white students.
[B] Though Obama himself called for more open dialogue during his campaign, most of us still struggle to speak frankly on the subject.
[C] The debate hasn’t been limited to literature either: in the past few weeks alone, National Public Radio, Many African-American blogs and talk-show host Michael Baisden all led discussions questioning whether we still need Black History Month.
[D] That editorial set off a fierce debate on blogs, radio shows and in classrooms across the country. Now that there’s a black man in the White House, what message does it send our kids to read aloud a classic that uses the "N word" more than 200 times? [E] His slurred speech, substandard English and deference to the white people around him weren’t exactly foreign to many of us who knew elders who’d employed some of those same tactics in an effort to simply survive.
[F] "I’m very tired of having to explain to black parents and white kids as to why these books say the ’N word’ again and again or having to watch my black students totally shut down as they read about black characters so far removed from the people they know."
[G] "I think there is a certain sector of the country that now feels racism is over, let’s move on," says Todd Boyd, who teaches race and popular culture at the University of Southern California.
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答案E
解析 上下文的衔接。根据文章第一段开头可知本文议题是种族歧视。第二段即提到了种族歧视的牺牲品Tom Robinson。第三段开头提到，那是20多年前的事了。由此可以推断文中的内容是跟Tom Robinson同时代的内容，这是其一；其二、还可根据选项开始的主题与空格之前衔接的相关度选择答案。首先可以排除[B]、[C]、[D]，它们的开始的主题分别是Obama、The debate、That editorial，这均属代词替代前文主题，所以，错误。[A]中“offended both his black and white students”的his指代不清楚，所以也错误。[F]的主题是“the N word”，与前文的Tom Robinson没有相关，错误。[G]中“that now feels racism is over”与第二段的前文和下文的第三段语义冲突，错误。所以，最佳答案是[E]，其中的his指代Tom Robinson’s，“slurred speech”、“substandard English”、“deference to the white people around him”都是对黑人较低社会地位的描述。
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