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importance of formal education in the United States increased. The frontier had
mostly disappeared and by 1910 most Americans lived in towns and cities.
Industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life combined with a new
emphasis upon credentials and expertise to make schooling increasingly important
for economic and social mobility. Increasingly, too, schools were viewed as the
most important means of integrating immigrants into American society. The arrival of a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling. By 1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in most states, and the school year was greatly lengthened. Kindergartens, vacation schools, extracurric A. the growing number of schools in frontier communities B. an increase in the number of trained teachers C. the expanding economic problems of schools D. the increased urbanization of the entire country [单项选择]Until the twentieth century, pendulum clocks were calibrated against the rotation of earth by taking astronomically measurements.
[单项选择]Task 7
Life in the twentieth century demands preparation. Today, all individuals in a country must have adequate schooling to prepare them for their work as well as for their responsibilities as citizens. With this in mind, national leaders everywhere are placing more emphasis on the education of the young. In the United States, government officials, parents, and teachers are working hard to give the children -tomorrow’s decision makers -the best preparation available. There is no national school policy in the United States. Each of the fifty states makes its own rules and regulations for its schools, but there are many similarities among the fifty school systems. Public schools in all states are supported by taxes paid by the citizens of the individual state. In most states the children are required to attend school until they reach the age of six. When they become six years old, children begin elementary school. After six years in elementary school, they go into A. 16. B. 6. C. 8. D. 7. [单项选择]
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