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The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the

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问题     The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s, but especially【1】the Depression of the 1930’s, the United States experienced a【2】birth rate. Then with the prosperity【3】on by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed it, young people married and【4】households earlier and began to【5】larger families than had their【6】during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955.【7】economics was probably the most important【8】, it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed【9】the idea of the family also helps to【10】this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming【11】the first grade by the mid-1940’s and became a【12】by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself【13】The wartime economy meant that few new schools were buih between 1940 and 1945.【14】, large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for better-paying jobs elsewhere.
    【15】, in the 1950’s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and inadequate school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the 1930’s no longer made【16】; keeping youths ages sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high【17】for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators【18】turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and【19】. The system no longer had much【20】in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to older youths.
选项 A、accelerating
B、strengthening
C、declining
D、fluctuating
答案C
解析 此处需要根据下文判断：随着第二次世界大战带来的经济繁荣，这个时代的年轻 人比起他们经历过的大萧条的前辈，结婚更早，并且生育的子女也更多。出生率上升到……因此此处关于大萧条时期的婴儿出生率应该填declining。
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