Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers — now the school district recruits teachers from other countr

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问题     Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers — now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Youses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine(巴勒斯坦), visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they’d hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Hannon, and he was the first teacher hired.
    The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and it’s a partnership between Chicago Public Schools and the U. S. Government, Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1-B visas. The Government grants these visas only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can’t be filled with available U.S. workforce.
    Through the GEO, the school district has hired dozens of teachers from 22 different countries. Applicants must pass an English language test and specialize in math, science, world language or bilingual(双语的)education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year.
    What do the GEO teachers think of the American classroom? Hannon, who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School, says classrooms in Chicago are very different from those in Palestine. For one thing, he says, the fixed schedule that forces students to attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dull. In Palestine, the class schedule changes each week. He says in Palestine, the culture forces students to work hard because if they don’t they’ll be kicked out and put in vocational schools, which limits their career options. There is not nearly as much pressure for American students to do well. He says he has to do double the amount of work just to get his students interested.
Hannon, as a GEO teacher, has found that______.

选项 A、class schedules in America and Palestine are very much the same
B、fixed class schedules make it easy for teachers to prepare lessons
C、vocational schools offer a good career option for American students
D、American students do not work as hard as Palestinian students

答案D

解析 细节题。从“Hannon,who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School,says classrooms in Chicago are very different from those in Palestine.”可以判断A选项不正确。B、C两选项在文中并未出现,可排除。所以D选项是正确答案,依据为最后一段倒数第三句:在巴勒斯坦,文化逼迫学生努力学习,否则就会被踢到职业学校,职业选择也会由此受限。故D正确。
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