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The International Community Textbook Makes Selection a Mode Different It’s often been said that history is written by the wi

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问题         The International Community Textbook Makes Selection a Mode Different
    It’s often been said that history is written by the winners. This was never more true than on March 12, when the Texas board of education voted 10-5 in favor of curriculum standards that would promote conservative takes on controversial issues in the pages of the state’s textbooks. The changes, expected to win final approval in May, include an increased emphasis on and sympathetic treatment of such Republican standards as the National Rifle Association and the Moral Majority. They also boast the advantage of capitalism and the role of Christianity in the nation’s founding. Even Thorn as Jefferson’s profile will be reduced; some board members were less than fond of his ideas about the division of church and state.
    This is not Texas’ first such skirmish. Since the 1970s, the state has tried to drop books that were seen as too liberal or anti-Christian, to omit passages on the gay-rights movement and to tone down global-warming arguments. But the nation’s battle over textbooks stretches back almost half a century earlier. In 1925, Tennessee’s Butler Act (which was abolished in 1967 ) made it illegal to teach"any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible. "The Scopes monkey trial" famously followed. In 1974, a clash erupted in Kanawha County, West Virginia, over the controversial writings of such authors as George Orwell, Arthur Miller and Alien Ginsberg. Opposition was so heated that some schools were threatened with explosions.
    As one of America’s largest textbook buyers, the Longhorn State has a good deal of sway over what is sold to schools nationwide. And while Napoleon may have maintained that " history is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon", getting Texans to come together on the past may prove to be their Waterloo.
The word "skirmish" ( Line 1, Para. 2) most probably means______.
选项 A、accident
B、conflict
C、challenge
D、disaster
答案B
解析 语义理解题。由题干提示定位到第二段。根据第一段讲述的德州教育委员会对于教科书的选择进行投票的案例以及在其他方面的纷争，第二段第一句承接上文说This is not Texas’first such skirmish．这并非德州第一次出现这种……同时结合下文对德州和其他地方在历史上就教科书内容选择的争斗，可以推断skirmish为“斗争，冲突"之意，故选[B]。
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