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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. "
Which of the following is true about "gateway test"?
选项 A、Its validity and accuracy are still in strong dispute.
B、It has been adopted in 42 states of America.
C、It is still not very mature in countries like China.
D、It is the only standard for students to go next grade.
答案A
解析 事实细节题。由题干关键词“gateway test”定位到第四段和最后一段。第四段第一句提到报道中推荐“要求学生进行等级水平考试”这一做法，但很可能会引起争议；最后一段提到很多国家对考试是否能充分地判定学生对知识和技能的掌握依然持怀疑态度，其准确性和及时性仍待验证，故[A]符合文意。第五段第一句提到42个州已经实施美国共同核心州课程新标准，并不是gateway test，[B]属张冠李戴；第四段第三句提到其他国家的gateway test设题规范、考查全面而且非常标准，可见已处于成熟阶段，China也是其他国家的一分子，[C]与文意相悖；同段第四句提到学生要掌握所学的内容才能通过考试，但并没有提及gateway test是唯一的升级标准，[D]与文意不符。
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