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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. "
Why does the author say what the Common Core does is gamble in Paragraph 5?
选项 A、Because it far lags behind gateway tests as for the advantages.
B、Because it has not been expanded to other subjects.
C、Because it proves insufficient readings for students’ achievements.
D、Because it needs further evidence as for its accuracy, timeliness, etc.
答案D
解析 事实细节题。由题干关键词the Common Core和gamble定位到第五段。该段末句提到该准则完全依赖于计算机打分系统来判定学生的成绩具有冒险性；紧接着第六段对其原因进行了说明，对这一准则是否能充分地判定学生对技能和知识的掌握程度依然抱有怀疑态度，而且美国需要在准确性、及时性等方面努力获得优势，故[D]符合文意。文章第四段和第五段分别对gate-way test和common core进行了论述，但并没有提及二者的领先性，[A]属捕风捉影；第五段提到common core仍然需要向历史和自然等学科扩展，但这并不是作者认为它具有风险的原因，故排除[B]；文中没有提及common core是否为学生成绩提高提供了足够的阅读材料，故排除[C]。
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