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Just seven years ago, the Texas Legislature prescribed that all high schoolers must pass two math courses and geometry to gradua

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问题     Just seven years ago, the Texas Legislature prescribed that all high schoolers must pass two math courses and geometry to graduate. This summer, the state reversed course, easing its【C1】________math, science, and social-studies requirements to【C2】________class time for job training.
    Texas legislators want to create a more【C3】________system that helps students who aren’t headed to four-year colleges enter the workforce. But that【C4】________carries some risks.【C5】________it’s true that not all students will go on to college, pulling back on college preparatory coursework has to be【C6】________carefully in a state like Texas, with its hundreds of thousands of low-income and【C7】________students. They’re the students who would benefit from college the most.
    New laws in Texas, as well as in Florida, de-emphasize the math class required for【C8】________to four-year colleges. Knowledge of these subjects is considered an indicator of college readiness【C9】________the Common Core standards, which have been【C10】________by 45 states, including Florida.
    More than half of public-school students in both states are nonwhite and from low-income families. It’s particularly【C11】________that these Hispanic and African-American students leave high school qualified to further their e-ducation—【C12】________they don’t plan on doing so right away. A college【C13】________is the most important driver of social mobility. By 2020, 65 percent of all jobs will require some kind of postsecondary education according to surveys.
    【C14】________speaking, Texas’s earlier college-prep course-work recommendations didn’t fit reality.【C15】________the high bar, only about half of the state’s high school graduates immediately headed off to college of any kind. "We wanted to give students and parents more flexibility, to not only be college-prepared—which I think we’re doing a pretty good job of—but perhaps to【C16】________that preparation to folks who may not be going to college," Representative Jimmie Don Aycock, who【C17】________the Texas House’s Public Education Committee, says of the revision. The goal isn’t to dumb down the curriculum, he says, but to let kids【C18】________a path that might not have been【C19】________ to them before. The state’s educational system still rewards schools when students【C20】________college readiness.
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选项 A、special
B、vital
C、strict
D、absurd
答案C
解析 空格前的easing(放松)暗示之前的要求很严格，而首句提到德州七年前要求所有中学生必须通过两门数学和几何学课程才能毕业，可知原来的要求较严格，故选C项strict“严格的”。A项special“特殊的，特别的”指某物具有区别于同类事物的不同点，但上下文并未说明原来的课程要求与众不同。B项vital“极重要的，不可缺少的”代入后，表明原来的课程要求对于成功或生存而言非常必要，这有悖于常理。上下文也没有相关的语义提示说明原来的课程要求是“荒谬的，可笑的”，故D项absurd不正确。
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