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  3. On Thursday, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission will be voting on the most(1)_____ one-time downsizing of the system ever

On Thursday, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission will be voting on the most(1)_____ one-time downsizing of the system ever

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问题     On Thursday, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission will be voting on the most(1)_____ one-time downsizing of the system ever(2)______. The district’s recently revised plan, which has encountered widespread community and teacher opposition,(3)_____ closing 29 out of 239 district schools next fall. The system is(4)_____ a budget gap of $1.1 billion over five years and has seen enrollment(5)_____ as more than 80 charter schools have been created since the late 1990s.
    Recent analyses show that most students from schools(6)_____ for closing in Philadelphia would not(7)_____ in better-performing schools. Most of the(8)_____ students will not benefit(9)_____ from the closings as planned.(10)_____, they would have to travel a distance outside their neighborhoods, (11)_____ the closings would(12)_____ education deserts in areas of the city with the(13)_____ concentration of minority and low-income residents.
    Disturbingly, this episode(14)_____ the urban renewal of the mid-20th century. Just as the urban renewal, the current school-closings agenda probably will lead to the same(15)_____: reducing neighborhoods considerably and dispersing the mostly poor and minority residents without benefiting them.
     (16)_____ analysts have deemed urban renewal wrong-headed and unfair.(17)_____its architects predicted that tearing down housing in poor neighborhoods would(18)_____ to revitalization through private investment, rarely(19)_____ that occur. Scholars and professional planners generally agree that urban renewal was a misguided policy(20)_____, rather than revitalizing neighborhoods, doomed them to long-term decline.
(5)
选项 A、decline
B、rise
C、expand
D、split
答案A
解析 表原因的习us后提到由于新出现了80多所特许学校，社区学校的招生数量必然下降，decline“下降”正确。rise“上升”；expand“扩大，扩张”；split“裂开”。
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