Education is an enormous and expensive part of American life. Its size is matched by its variety. Differences in American s

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问题     Education is an enormous and expensive part of American life. Its size is matched by its variety.
    Differences in American schools compared with those found in the majority of other countries lie in the fact that education here has long been intended for everyone—not just for a privileged elite. Schools are expected to meet the needs of every child, regardless of ability, and also the needs of society itself. This means that public schools offer more than academic subjects. It surprises many people when they come here to find high schools offering such courses as typing, sewing, radio repair, computer programming or driver training, along with traditional academic subjects such as mathematics, history, and languages. Students choose their curricula depending on their interests, future goals, and level of ability. The underlying goal of American education is to develop every child to the utmost of his or her own possibilities, and to give each one a sense of civic and community consciousness.
    Schools have traditionally played an important role in creating national unity and "Americanizing" the millions of immigrants who have poured into this country from many different backgrounds and origins. Schools still play a large role in the community, especially in the small towns.
    The approach to teaching may seem unfamiliar to many, not only because it is informal, but also because there is not much emphasis on learning facts. Instead, Americans try to teach their children to think for themselves and to develop their own intellectual and creative abilities. Students spend much time, learning how to use resource materials, libraries, statistics and computers. Americans believe that if children are taught to reason well and to research well, they will be able to find whatever facts they need throughout the rest of their lives. Knowing how to solve problems is considered more important than the accumulation of facts.
    This is America’s answer to the searching question that thoughtful parents all over the world are asking themselves in the fast-moving time: "How can one prepare today’s child for a tomorrow that one can neither predict nor understand?"
According to the passage, American education meets the needs of all the following EXCEPT ______.

选项 A、the brightest students
B、the slow students
C、the students from foreign countries
D、the immigrants

答案C

解析 细节理解题。由第二段第二句话中的“Schools are expected to meet the needs of every child, regardless of ability”和第三段中的“"Americanizing" the millions of immigrants”可知,美国教育能够满足美国不同水平的学生的需求和美国移民的需求。本文中没有提到外国留学生,故选C。
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