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Selective New York City public high schools are supposed to make it easy for families to see their detailed admission criteria,

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问题     Selective New York City public high schools are supposed to make it easy for families to see their detailed admission criteria, but only a fraction of schools do so, according to a new report from Fordham Law School. Just 20 of 157 screened high-school programs put their rubrics for evaluating applicants online or gave them to researchers upon request, the report said Tuesday. At a time when selectivity in admission to public schools is under scrutiny, the report said families deserve far more information on exactly how students are judged.
    In the city’s complex system, eighth-graders competing for seats rank up to 12 choices, selective schools rank applicants, and an algorithm makes matches. The city Department of Education website and high-school directory show general requirements for each school. But the agency has said each school should make available a rubric showing the precise weighting of admission criteria, such as test scores, course grades, attendance and punctuality. Those details help students determine whether they are viable candidates and avoid wasting their picks on programs where they have no shot.
    More transparency "could go far in helping some families better navigate the process and level the playing field," said Dora Galacatos, executive director of Fordham’s Feerick Center for Social Justice, which issued the "Screened Out" report. George Westinghouse High School in Brooklyn was one of the few to provide rubrics. It gave 15％ of points for attendance, 15％ for punctuality, 7.5％ for each of the four core course grades, and 40％ for state test scores in math and reading.
    Department of Education officials said they instruct screened schools annually to make rubrics available, and would remind principals in their next newsletter. "We’re committed to a fair and transparent admissions process," said spokeswoman Katie O’Hanlon. Screening faces critics who say it aggravates segregation by race and income, partly because affluent families have more resources to deal with the system and pay for tutoring. Supporters of screening say it helps high-performing students learn at a faster pace.
    Researchers at the Feerick Center hunted for admissions rubrics on school websites, sent letters to principals asking for rubrics, and made two rounds of phone calls to high schools, between June 2018 and February. Most of the roughly 77,000 students who applied to high school sought to get into at least one screened program, which offered about 15,700 seats in 2017, the report said.
According to Paragraph 2, the precise admission criteria being made available can________.
选项 A、help students become eligible candidates
B、make students give up wrong programs in time
C、select suitable programs for potentially viable students
D、raise the bar of fair play for families
答案B
解析 根据题干关键信息Paragraph 2可定位至原文第二段。该段第三句指出each school should make available a rubric showing the precise weighting of admission criteria(每所学校都应提供一套规则，展示入学标准的精确权重)，接着第四句说明Those details help students determine whether they are viable candidates and avoid wasting their picks on programs where they have no shot. (这些详细信息可帮助学生确定自己是否是可行的候选人，以避免在没有录取机会的招生计划上浪费其选择机会)。由此可知，精确的入学标准可以帮助学生确认自己是否是某所高中的合适人选，以避免其浪费选择的机会，因此B项make students give up wrong programs in time (使学生及时放弃不适合的招生计划)是正确答案。由第二段第四句可知Those details help students determine whether they are viable candidates (这些详细信息可帮助学生确定自己是否是可行的候选人)，而不是帮助学生成为合适的候选人，故A项错误，应排除；C项select suitable programs for potentially viable students(为有潜力的学生选择合适的招生计划)是对原文信息的误解，是学生去选择合适的招生计划，而不是为学生选择合适的招生计划，应排除；第三段第一句提出More transparency “could go far in helping some families better navigate the process and level the playing field”(更高的透明度“大大有助于一些家庭更好地处理这一过程，营造公平的竞争环境”)，而非D项raise the bar off air play for families(增加家庭公平竞争的难度)，故该选项应排除。
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