首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
South Korea’s hagwon(private tutoring academies)crackdown is one part of a larger quest to tame the country’s culture of educati
South Korea’s hagwon(private tutoring academies)crackdown is one part of a larger quest to tame the country’s culture of educati
admin
2014-02-22
58
问题
South Korea’s hagwon(private tutoring academies)crackdown is one part of a larger quest to tame the country’s culture of educational masochism. At the national and local levels, politicians are changing school testing and university admissions policies to reduce student stress and reward softer qualities like creativity. " One-size-fits-all, government-led uniform curriculums and an education system that is locked only onto the college-entrance examination are not acceptable," President Lee Myung-bak vowed at his inauguration in 2008.
But cramming is deeply embedded in Asia, where top grades — and often nothing else — have long been prized as essential for professional success. Modern-day South Korea has taken this competition to new extremes. In 2010, 74% of all students engaged in some kind of private after-school instruction, sometimes called shadow education, at an average cost of $ 2, 600 per student for the year. There are more private instructors in South Korea than there are schoolteachers, and the most popular of them make millions of dollars a year from online and in-person classes. When Singapore’s Education Minister was asked last year about his nation’s reliance on private tutoring, he found one reason for hope: "We’re not as bad as the Koreans. "
In Seoul, legions of students who fail to get into top universities spend the entire year after high school attending hagwons to improve their scores on university admissions exams. And they must compete even to do this. At the prestigious Daesung Institute, admission is based(diabolically enough)on students’ test scores. Only 14% of applicants are accepted. After a year of 14-hour days, about 70% gain entry to one of the nation’s top three universities.
From a distance, South Korea’s results look enviable. Its students consistently outperform their counterparts in almost every country in reading and math. In the U. S. , Barack Obama and his Education Secretary speak glowingly of the enthusiasm South Korean parents have for educating their children, and they lament how far U. S. students are falling behind. Without its education obsession, South Korea could not have transformed into the economic powerhouse that it is today. But the country’s leaders worry that unless its rigid, hierarchical system starts to nurture more innovation, economic growth will stall. "You Americans see a bright side of the Korean system," Education Minister Lee Ju-ho tells me, "but Koreans are not happy with it. "
South Koreans educational system______.
选项
A、gives much weight to exams
B、stresses students’ creativity
C、shames the country’s culture
D、offers easy admissions
答案
A
解析
细节事实题。根据题干关键词South Koreans,educational system定位到原文首段尾句。原句中的is locked only onto the college—entrance examination与选项A对应。故答案为A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/xPQO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
It’sallannualback-to-schoolroutine.Onemorningyouwavegoodbye,andthat【56】eveningyou’reburningthelate-nightoilins
Duringthenormaldevelopmentofself,achildisaffectedbycertaininfluentialfactors.1._____.Infantsformanattachmentwi
Nobodyknows______howmanypeoplearetobeblameforthecoal-mineaccident,sothegovernmentistryingtofindoutthewhole
Hepeeredoveratthewrithingblacknessthatjerkedconvulsivelywiththejerkingnerves.Itgrewquieter.Thereweresmalltwi
Hepeeredoveratthewrithingblacknessthatjerkedconvulsivelywiththejerkingnerves.Itgrewquieter.Thereweresmalltwi
Hepeeredoveratthewrithingblacknessthatjerkedconvulsivelywiththejerkingnerves.Itgrewquieter.Thereweresmalltwi
WhenDonaldarrivedforhisfirstgroup-therapysessionhewasinawheelchair,sufferingfrommalignantmelanomaandseverelyd
WhenDonaldarrivedforhisfirstgroup-therapysessionhewasinawheelchair,sufferingfrommalignantmelanomaandseverelyd
Thedoctorshavetried______tosavehislife.
随机试题
下列不能构成工业产品外观设计的要素的是()
A.胰高血糖素B.胰岛素C.血管升压素D.促黑激素E.褪黑素胰岛B细胞产生的激素是
()适用于桥隧施工过程的应力(应变)监测。
测算房屋建筑面积时,需要全部计算建筑面积的有()。
某工程项目,建设单位未按合同约定的时间支付监理酬金。监理单位在应当获得监理酬金之日起30日内未收到支付单据,且建设单位又未提出任何书面解释,监理单位按合同规定保护自己合法权益可以采取的措施是()。
下列选项中,属于施工组织总设计编制依据的是( )。
石油化工企业消防站的设置位置应便于消防车迅速通往工艺装置区和罐区,宜位于生产区全年()且避开工厂主要人流道路。
教育目的是衡量教学实施效果的根本依据和标准。这体现了教育目的的()作用。
文明执勤的要点是()。
某金矿公司预计三个月后将出售黄金,故先卖出黄金期货,价格为298美元,出售黄金时的市价为308美元,同时以311美元回补黄金期货,其有效黄金售价为()。
最新回复
(
0
)