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The weather in Texas may have cooled since the recent extreme heat, but the temperature will be high at the State Board of Educa

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问题     The weather in Texas may have cooled since the recent extreme heat, but the temperature will be high at the State Board of Education meeting in Austin this month as officials debate how climate change is taught in Texas schools.
    Pat Hardy, who sympathizes with views of the energy sector, is resisting the proposed changes to science standards for pre-teen pupils. These would emphasize the primacy of human activity in recent climate change and encourage discussion of mitigation measures.
    Most scientists and experts sharply dispute Hardy’s views. "They casually dismiss the career work of scholars and scientists as just another misguided opinion. " says Dan Quinn, senior communications strategist at the Texas Freedom Network, a non-profit group that monitors public education. " What millions of Texas kids learn in their public schools is determined too often by the political ideology of partisan board members, rather than facts and sound scholarship. "
    Such debates reflect fierce discussions across the US and around the world, as researchers, policymakers, teachers and students step up demands for a greater focus on teaching about the facts of climate change in schools.
    A study last year by the National Center for Science Education, a non-profit group of scientists and teachers, looking at how state public schools across the country address climate change in science classes, gave barely half of US states a grade B + or higher. Among the 10 worst performers were some of the most populous states, including Texas, which was given the lowest grade (F) and has a disproportionate influence because its textbooks are widely sold elsewhere.
    Glenn Branch, the centre’s deputy director, cautions that setting state-level science standards is only one limited benchmark in a country that decentralises decisions to local school boards. Even if a state is considered a high performer in its science standards, " that does not mean it will be taught" , he says.
    Another issue is that while climate change is well integrated into some subjects and at some ages—such as earth and space sciences in high schools—it is not as well represented in curricula for younger children and in subjects that are more widely taught, such as biology and chemistry.  It is also less prominent in many social studies courses.
    Branch points out that, even if a growing number of official guidelines and textbooks reflect scientific consensus on climate change, unofficial educational materials that convey more slanted perspectives are being distributed to teachers. They include materials sponsored by libertarian think-tanks and energy industry associations.
It is implied in the last paragraph that climate change teaching in some schools_________.
选项 A、agrees to major public demands
B、reflects teachers’ personal biases
C、may misrepresent the energy sector
D、can be swayed by external forces
答案D
解析 根据题干中的last paragraph和climate change teaching定位到最后一段，其中提到“即使越来越多的官方指导方针和教科书反映了关于气候变化的科学共识，但是非官方教育材料正在发放给教师”，也就是说气候变化教学很有可能会受外力影响，故正确答案为D。文中并未提到major public demands（主要的公众需求），A选项属于无中生有，故排除。文中提到的发放给教师的非官方教育材料会有偏向性，并不代表老师有个人的偏见，属于对文义的扭曲，故排除B选项。文中只是提到“帕特·哈迪与能源部门的观点产生了共鸣”，而“气候变化教学可能会曲解能源部门的观点”属于无稽之谈，故排除 C选项。
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