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Americans have never had nationaI education standards.Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards. Their members are often elected.
But some Americans say the lack of national standards is wrong in a competitive global economy. Former president Bill Clinton said it was as if somehow school boards "could legislate differences in algebra or math or reading. "
President George W. Bush and Congress expanded federal intervention. His education law, still in effect, required states to show yearly progress in student learning as measured by the states’ own tests.
Now, the Obama administration supports what are known as the Common Core State Standards. These were developed in a yearlong process led by state governors and chief state school officers. Texas and Alaska were the only states not to take part.
The standards are in two subject areas, English-language arts and mathematics. They establish goal
A. Chief state school officers.
B. Local Schoolmasters.
C. Local and state school boards.
D. Local education bureau.

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Americans have never had nationaI education standards.Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards. Their members are often elected.
But some Americans say the lack of national standards is wrong in a competitive global economy. Former president Bill Clinton said it was as if somehow school boards "could legislate differences in algebra or math or reading. "
President George W. Bush and Congress expanded federal intervention. His education law, still in effect, required states to show yearly progress in student learning as measured by the states’ own tests.
Now, the Obama administration supports what are known as the Common Core State Standards. These were developed in a yearlong process led by state governors and chief state school officers. Texas and Alaska were the only states not to take part.
The standards are in two subject areas, English-language arts and mathematics. They establish goal
A. Algebra and mathematics.
B. Mathematics and arts.
C. English-language arts and mathematics.
D. English-language arts and algebra.

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative liter ature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much p
A. just as scientists can dissect a frog, so analysts can dissect humor
B. detailed, scientific analysis is not appropriate for humor, for it may make humor lose its aesthetic value
C. some people’s analysis of humor are too scientific
D. analysts’ attempts at humor are not instructive enough to interest the author

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Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards (内在部分) are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragil
A. they give vent to their sorrows in a laughable way
B. they have much trouble in their life and they are melancholy
C. they are more sensible of the sadness of life and they endure and express the pain cheerfully
D. they are mostly clowns with a breaking heart