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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

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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. Only by appropriating adequate Federal funds for education can the next generation have a bright future.
B. Citizens of all parts of the country agree that the best way to support education is to use Federal funds.
C. People all over the country should make contributions to education in the interest of the next generation.
D. Educated people are determined to use part of the Federal funds to help the poor.

[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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Psychologists take opposite views of how external rewards, from warm praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, who study the relation between actions and their consequences, argue that rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, maintain that rewards often destroy creativity by encouraging dependence on approval and gifts from others.
The (26) view had gained many supporters, especially among (27) . But the careful use of small monetary rewards (28) creativity in grade-school children, (29) that properly presented inducements indeed aid (30) , according to a (31) in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
"If kids know they’re working for a reward and can (32) on a relatively challenging task, (33) show the most creativity," says Robert Eisenberger of the
A. continuously
B. continually
C. ceaselessly
D. incessantly