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Education begins with teachers. Yet teaching seems to be losing its appeal for many of the best and brightest college students.

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问题     Education begins with teachers. Yet teaching seems to be losing its appeal for many of the best and brightest college students. In high school, many of the best students decide that they want to be teachers, but their relatives and friends soon convince them to change their minds. One student’s mother kept reminding her of the relatively skimpy salaries teachers currently earn until the student changed to another major. Another student took computer science courses because his father thought that teachers were at the bottom of the social ladder. One said that none of her friends looked upon teaching as a worthwhile career, so she came to think of teaching as not noble enough and went into pharmacy instead. According to several recent reports on the shortcomings of American public schooling, teaching’s lack of appeal for the brightest college students is one of the teaching profession’s most worrisome problems.
    Many articles on teaching, currently popular in newspapers, magazines, and professional education journals, concentrate on the negative aspects of teaching. The expression "teacher burnout" is commonly ascribed to thousands of thoughtful and dedicated teachers who are leaving the profession. Teacher burnout is caused by such problems as violence in the classroom, vandalism, inadequate salaries, involuntary transfers, interfering parents, oversized classes, and excessive paperwork. Even the best teachers cannot solve a child’s problems, but many of them believe the public expects them to, and they give up teaching in despair.
    Despite the more limited financial prospects, the deterioration of the American public’s attitude toward teachers, and the problems caused by disruptive students, many of the best students conclude that they want to pursue careers in the classroom after all. The three students mentioned above discovered that they wanted personal fulfillment from their life’s work more than they wanted material rewards. Each eventually chose to become a teacher. However, a growing body of evidence shows that such students are exceptions, rather than the rule, in America’s more than 1,200 teacher-training programs. Many teacher-training schools are beginning to look at ways to recruit the kind of people who would be inclined toward the positive aspects of teaching. The teaching profession has to become more attractive to good students.
    Prospective teachers will see increased emphasis by national teacher organizations, state certification agencies, and local districts on improving the status of the profession, as well as on improving teacher salaries. Continued efforts to eliminate jobs teachers do that are not teacher— such as policing the restrooms, hallways, and cafeterias— are important for upgrading the profession.
    While teaching is not a wise career choice for all, teaching is a noble and rewarding profession for those who indeed seek personal fulfillment from their life’s work. The first year of teaching is frequently the most frustrating year in a teacher’s life. The experience of solving problems that deal with instruction, students, parents, administrators, and fellow teachers is of immeasurable value for future success.
The main idea of the first paragraph is that______.
选项 A、teachers are indispensable to education
B、teaching is not a worthwhile career
C、teaching is losing its appeal for the best college students
D、teaching profession is looked down on by most parents
答案C
解析 这是一道主旨题。文章第一段指出：对于许多最优秀、最聪明的大学生来说，教书好像失去了吸引力；根据几份最新的报告可知，教书缺乏对最聪明大学生的吸引力，这是最令教育界焦虑的问题之一。这说明，第一段主要是讲教书这一职业失去了吸引力这个问题。C说“教书正在失去对最优秀的大学生的吸引力”，可以表达第一段的主题。文章第一段第一句话提到了教师的重要性，但是，随后讲的是教师这一职业所面临的问题，所以A不能表达第一段的中心意思：“教书不是一个值得从事的职业”只是一名学生朋友的观点，看不起教书这一职业也只是一些学生家长的观点，都不是文章第一段要表达的重点，所以B和D不对。
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