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Education begins with teachers. Yet teaching seems to be losing its appeal for many of the best and brightest college students.

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问题     Education begins with teachers. Yet teaching seems to be losing its appeal for many of the best and brightest college students. In high school, many of the best students decide that they want to be teachers, but their relatives and friends soon convince them to change their minds. One student’s mother kept reminding her of the relatively skimpy salaries teachers currently earn until the student changed to another major. Another student took computer science courses because his father thought that teachers were at the bottom of the social ladder. One said that none of her friends looked upon teaching as a worthwhile career, so she came to think of teaching as not noble enough and went into pharmacy instead. According to several recent reports on the shortcomings of American public schooling, teaching’s lack of appeal for the brightest college students is one of the teaching profession’s most worrisome problems.
    Many articles on teaching, currently popular in newspapers, magazines, and professional education journals, concentrate on the negative aspects of teaching. The expression "teacher burnout" is commonly ascribed to thousands of thoughtful and dedicated teachers who are leaving the profession. Teacher burnout is caused by such problems as violence in the classroom, vandalism, inadequate salaries, involuntary transfers, interfering parents, oversized classes, and excessive paperwork. Even the best teachers cannot solve a child’s problems, but many of them believe the public expects them to, and they give up teaching in despair.
    Despite the more limited financial prospects, the deterioration of the American public’s attitude toward teachers, and the problems caused by disruptive students, many of the best students conclude that they want to pursue careers in the classroom after all. The three students mentioned above discovered that they wanted personal fulfillment from their life’s work more than they wanted material rewards. Each eventually chose to become a teacher. However, a growing body of evidence shows that such students are exceptions, rather than the rule, in America’s more than 1,200 teacher-training programs. Many teacher-training schools are beginning to look at ways to recruit the kind of people who would be inclined toward the positive aspects of teaching. The teaching profession has to become more attractive to good students.
    Prospective teachers will see increased emphasis by national teacher organizations, state certification agencies, and local districts on improving the status of the profession, as well as on improving teacher salaries. Continued efforts to eliminate jobs teachers do that are not teacher— such as policing the restrooms, hallways, and cafeterias— are important for upgrading the profession.
    While teaching is not a wise career choice for all, teaching is a noble and rewarding profession for those who indeed seek personal fulfillment from their life’s work. The first year of teaching is frequently the most frustrating year in a teacher’s life. The experience of solving problems that deal with instruction, students, parents, administrators, and fellow teachers is of immeasurable value for future success.
It is implied in the passage that______.
选项 A、the expression "teacher burnout" does not reflect the reality of the teaching profession
B、most teachers are not willing to do jobs which have little to do with teaching
C、personal fulfillment is of extreme importance for most students to choose their future careers
D、no articles in professional education journals pay attention to the positive aspects of teaching
答案B
解析 这是一道推论题。文章第四段指出：未来的教师会看到，全国教师组织、州文凭管理部门以及各个地方行政机关越来越重视提高教师的地位、增加教师的工资：这些机构还在继续努力，取消教师所做的那些与教学无关的事，这对于提高教书这一职业的声望很重要。由此可知，教师以前做过与教书无关的事情，而这些事情并不是他们愿意做的。B说“大多数教师不愿意干与教书无关的事情”，这与文章的意思相符。文章第二段第二句话指出：“教师流失”这一说法普遍把责任推给那些正在离开教书行业的教师，而随后的事实说明这一说法不对，不必推论就可知结果，所以A不对。文中提到personal fulfillment时是说“对于那些真正寻求在工作中实现自己抱负的人来说，教书是高尚的、值得从事的职业”，不必推论就可知结果，所以C不对。文章第二段第一句话说“在报纸、杂志和专业教育刊物上流行的许多有关教书的文章，大多把焦点集中在教书的消极面上”，不必推论就可知结果，所以D也不对。
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