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  3. In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、

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问题 In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list (A、B、C、D、E、F、G……) to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are several extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. (10 points)

    The great American melting pot(熔炉) is beautifully simple in theory: colors, creeds and cultures stirred together in the land of the free. But the daily details are more difficult. (41)______.  There are 43.6 million children attending public schools in America, and 2.6 million of them don’t speak English, an increase of 76% in the past decade. (42)______. Citing the close Quebec secession vote in Canada as a warning signal, U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said last week, "We should insist on English as a common language. That’s what binds us together." Senate majority leader and Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole recently made it an element of his campaign, declaring, "We must stop the practice of multilingual education as a means of instilling (渗透) ethnic pride or as a therapy for low self-esteems." Dole last week endorsed legislation to make English the "official language" of the U.S. (43)______.
    (44)______. But many critics of polyglot(多语言的) America are more direct than Dole: two pending proposals would virtually dismantle the Federal Government’s 27-year support for bilingual schooling, congressional budget cuts under consideration would slash present funding ’as much as two-thirds. Behind these moves lies a backlash against immigration and affirmative action programs to help minorities as well as an impatience with the failures and ideological strictures of some bilingual programs.
    (45)______. New York City classes, for example, are now taught in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Polish, Bengali and French. In California the demographic(人口统计学的) change has been the most breathtaking. Thirty years ago, the state’s schools were more than three-quarters filled with white, non-Latino children. Today that proportion has dropped to 44%. A quarter of California’s 5 million public school students "do not speak English well enough to understand what is going on in a classroom" according to a 1993 report of a state watchdog agency. The agency charged that California’s bilingual bureaucracy had "calcified into a self-serving machine—an ideologically based program more concerned with the intrinsic values of bilingualism and biculturalism than with teaching English."

A. Whether these students should be taught in their parental language, in the English of their new home or in bilingual classes has suddenly become a national issue.
B. Bilingual education refers to using two languages in some proportion in order to facilitate learning by students who have a native proficiency in one language and are acquiring proficiency in the other.
C. For a start, in explaining this concept to a child growing up in the U.S. racial mix, what language should be used?
D. A "timely fashion" is a difficult expression for someone wrestling with English.
E. He says he would not seek to ban the country’s many bilingual education programs, provided they "ensure people learn English in a timely fashion."
F. A polyglot is a person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
G. The biggest test of the language melting pot, is in the five states where three-quarters of the young newcomers live: California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois.

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答案G
解析 空白后面提到纽约市的教学，现在使用西班牙语、中文等语言。而G提到包括纽约的5个州的情况。纽约是举例说明。
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