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【单选题】Questions 44-50As the twentieth century began, the importance of formal education in the UnitedStates increased The frontier had mostly disappeared and by 1910 mostAmericanslived in towns and cities. Industrialization and the bureaucratization of economicline life combined with a new emphasis upon credentials and expertise to make schooling increasingly important for economic and social mobility. Increasingly, too, schoolswere viewed as the most important means of integrating immigrants intoAmericansociety.The arrival of a great wave of southern and easternEuropean immigrants at the turnof the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling.By 1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in moststates, nd the school year was greatly lengtheneD、Kindergartens, vacation schools,extracurricular activities, and vocational education and counseling extended theinfluence of public schools over the lives of students, many of whom in the largerindustrial cities were the children of immigrants.Classes for adult immigrants were sponsored by public schools, corporations, unions, churches, settlement houses, andother agencies.Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs shouldsuit the needs of specific populations. Immigrant women were one such population.Schools tried to educate young women so they could occupy productive places in theurban industrial economy, and one place many educators considered appropriate forwomen was the home.Although looking after the house and family was familiar to immigrant women,American education gave homemaking a new definition. In preindustrial economies,homemaking had meant the production as well as the consumption of goods, and it commonly included income-producing activities both inside and outside the home,in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States, however,overproduction rather than scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the idealAmericanhomemaker was viewed as a consumer rather than a producer. Schools trained womento be consumer homemakers cooking, shopping, decorating, and caring for children "efficiently" in their own homes, or if economic necessity demanded, as employeesin the homes of others. Subsequent reforms have made these notions seem quiteout-of-date. According to the passage, one importantchange in United States education by the1920’s was that
A、most places required children to attendschool

B、the amount of time spent on formaleducation was limited

C、new regulations were imposed onnontraditional education
D．adults and children studied in the sameclasses

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