[单项选择] Take the case of public education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils. This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. In view of the technological improvements in the last few years, business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still further raising of the legal age for going into employment, and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained. If we cannot put our children to work, we must put them in school. We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since the depression began
A. The trend toward a shorter workday.
B. Raising of the legal age for going to work.
C. The requirement of educated workers by business.
D. People’’s concern for the future of the next generation.

[单项选择] Take the case of public education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils. This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. In view of the technological improvements in the last few years, business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still further raising of the legal age for going into employment, and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained. If we cannot put our children to work, we must put them in school. We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since the depression began
A. How to improve the public education system.
B. How to solve the rising unemployment problem.
C. How to persuade local communities to provide more funds.
D. How to cope with the shortage of funds for public education.

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Take the case of public education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils. This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. In view of the technological improvements in the last few years, business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still further raising of the legal age for going into employment, and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained. If we cannot put our children to work, we must put them in school.
We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swam
A. should allocate Federal funds for public education
B. should demand that local communities provide support
C. should raise taxes to meet the needs of public education
D. should first of all solve the problem of unemployment

[填空题] Education is too important to take seriously. When people take anything too seriously, they put on blinders, which cause them to miss the important (36) ___________ of what is going on around them. They develop "tunnel vision," which limits and (37) ___________their perception of (38) ___________. Education is too important to be limited by those who have (39)___________to wear blinders and develop tunnel vision. I believe the accountability movement has (40) ___________many educators to take education too seriously. When we take education too seriously, we put (41) ___________tests scores above children, we put lesson plans above teachers, and we put on our blinders, only to see a (42)___________small segment of the child—that segment that can be (43) ___________easily rather than looking at the child as a whole. (44)________________________. How can we take off our blinders How can we eliminate tunnel vision to see the whole child How can we not take everything so ser