在职攻硕英语考试

【单选题】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), visitedChicago. He read about the teacher shortage atChicago 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 Harmon, and he was the first teacher hire
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The program is called the GlobalEducator Outreach or GEO, and it’s a partnership betweenChicago Public Schools and the U.S. Government.Because the teacher shortage inChicago 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 anEnglish 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 theAmerican classroom Harmon, who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School, says classrooms inChicago 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 forAmerican students to do well He says he has to do double the amount of work just to get his students intereste
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Hannon, as a GEO teacher, has found that ______.
A、class schedules inAmerica 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 forAmerican students
D、American students do not work as hard as Palestinian students
网考网参考答案：D
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