大学英语四级-95pmc
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
A new report relead by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) reminds us of a topic education writers almost never address—the indecent side of the recruitment of teachers abroad for U.S. schools. The AFT report, "Importing Educators: Caus and Conquences of International Teacher Recruitment," has some shocking disclosures, and derves a clo reading.
The report says that one recruiter for overas-educated teachers in Newark, N.J., forced recruits to sign a contract obligating them to kick back 25 percent of their salaries to the recruiter. Other recruiters claimed that they would help the teachers to get loans at 60 percent interest rate. Some forbade them to own cars. Some placed the newly arrived teachers in overcrowded, unfinished housing, the report said.
The AFT was smart to start their press relea on the report with this true statement: "The growing number of overas-educated teachers in U.S. schools has put many talented educators in classrooms." Then it added the concerns that the immoral recruiting has raid.
This is something for school boards and citizens to investigate in cities that have recruited many teachers from abroad. It is another reason why we should celebrate groups like Teach For America that are working hard to persuade more Americans to consider teaching in tho districts that have the greatest shortages.
The best teacher I ever saw in action, the man who turned me into an education reporter, was educated in Bolivia, and taught there until he moved to the U.S. when he was 34. He was not recruited by anyone. His wife hoped that moving him to America would persuade him to stop teaching, which she thought was beneath him. His name is Jaime Escalante. If anyone had tried any of the recruiter tricks on him, they would have regretted it for the rest of their lives. He was, and still is in retirement, a tough guy, who spent 10 years l
earning English and redoing his college education so he could teach here. I am sure the AFT will be very happy ff we get more like him, and stop this exploitation of people who want to help kids.
1. What issue has long been ignored by education writers?
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A. Many overas teachers wanted to work in the American schools.
B. There was dirty work in the process of recruiting overas teachers.
C. The American schools recruited unqualified overas teachers.
D. Overas teachers did not enjoy any welfare in the United States.
2. What is the AFT report mainly concerned about?
A. The low salaries of the overas teachers.
B. The recruiting process of the overas teachers.
C. The need for more overas teachers in the U.S.
D. The living conditions of the overas teachers.
3. The author is most likely to agree that "districts that have the greatest shortages" ______.
A. can"t afford to hire local American teachers章制作
B. do not appeal to local American teachers at all新生入学登记表
C. have a flawed education system
D. are in great need of teachers
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4. It is implied in the last paragraph that Mrs. Escalante thought that ______.
A. teachers were not highly respected in the U.S.
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B. overas teachers were usually unfairly treated
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C. her husband derved a better job than teaching
D. her husband had always wanted to change his job
5. According to the passage, what is AFT?
A. A non-government organization of teachers.
B. A rearch institute on teachers" issues.
C. A government branch administering teachers.
D. A scholarly journal issued by teachers.
Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not all will be saved, and perhaps not all derve to be saved. There are low-quality schools just as there are low-quality business. We have no obligation to save them simply becau they exist.
But many thriving institutions that derve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financial squeeze, with no way to reduce rising costs or increa revenues significantly. Raising tuition doesn"t bring in more revenue, for each time tuition goes up, the enrollment goes down, or the amount that must be given away in student aid goes up. Schools are bad business, whether public or private, not usually becau of mismanagement but becau of the nature of the enterpri. They lo money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt either from too few students or too many students. Even a very good college is a very bad business.
工作感悟短句It is such colleges, thriving but threatened, I worry about. Low enrollment is not their chief problem. Even with full enrollments, they may go under. Efforts to save them, and preferably to keep them private, are a national necessity. There is no basis for arguing that private schools areinherently(固有地) better than public schools. Examples to the contrary abound. Anyone can name state universities and colleges that rank as the finest in the nation and the world. It is now inevitable that public institutions will be dominant, and therefore diversity is a national necessity. Diversity in the way we support schools ten
ds to give us a healthy diversity in the forms of education. In an imperfect society such as ours, uniformity of education throughout the nation could be dangerous. In an imperfect society, diversity is a positive good. Enthusiastic supporters of public higher education know the importance of sustaining private higher education.
