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It’s time for America to start following other countries’ leads when it comes to education, according to a new report by the Nat

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问题     It’s time for America to start following other countries’ leads when it comes to education, according to a new report by the National Center on Education and the Economy(NCEE), an organization that researches education systems around the world. The report studied the overall education systems in Canada, China, Japan, and Singapore, discovering education achievement in the U. S. has fallen to the middle of the pack among developed nations, but said that America can solve this educational crisis by looking at it like it looked at manufacturing at the turn of the 20th century.
    "We took the best ideas in steelmaking, industrial chemicals and many other fields from England and Germany and others and put them to work here on a scale that Europe could only imagine," the report says. By using the educational strategies of successful nations, NCEE says, the U. S. can catch up.
    "The most effective way to greatly improve student performance in the United States is to figure out how the countries with top student performance are doing it, build on their achievements and then, by building on our unique strengths, figure out how to do it even better," Marc Tucker, NCEE’s CEO, said in a statement.
    The report’s recommendation requiring students to pass tests at certain grade levels before continuing their education is likely to be controversial. Hypothetically, students would have to pass a " gateway test" at the end of middle school and again at the end of 10th grade in order to move on to the next grade. NCEE says gateway tests in other countries are well-designed, comprehensive, and standardized throughout the nation. "Because the exams are very high quality, they cannot be ’ test prepped;’ the only way to succeed on them is to actually master the material," NCEE says.
    The report praises the new Common Core State Standards, a state-led initiative launched last year that set guidelines for student achievement in math and English and has been adopted in 42 states. But it also says America needs to go further by expanding the system to the rest of the core curriculum with subjects such as history and science. NCEE also worries that relying on computer-scored exams to provide readings on student achievement, which the Common Core does, is a gamble.
    Other countries "are deeply skeptical that computer-scored tests or examinations can adequately measure the acquisition of the skills and knowledge they are most interested in," NCEE says. "If the United States is right about this, we will wind up with a significant advantage over our competitors in the accuracy, timeliness and cost of scoring. If we are wrong, we will significantly hamper our capacity to measure the things we are most interested in measuring. "
By citing "steelmaking, industrial chemicals..."(Line 1, Para. 2), the author intends to show
选项 A、America has taken the leads in such fields.
B、American is superior to European countries.
C、American education has the ability to catch up.
D、American has a strong economic foundation for education.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。由题干提示定位到第二段。该段提到，美国曾经从英国、德国以及其他国家学习炼钢、化工以及其他诸多领域的经验，并且在国内应用，规模之大让欧洲国家望洋兴叹，因此美国的教育也是可以像以前那样赶上其他国家，可见，作者引用steelmaking，industrial chemicals的例子是为了类比说明，美国有能力在教育上赶超他国，故[C]符合文意。通读全文可知，本文主旨是美国教育如何发展的问题，不是单纯地为了说明它处于领先地位或比欧洲国家优越，故排除[A]和[B]；文中没有提及这些行业为教育发展提供经济基础，[D]属无中生有。
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