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An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students’ career prospects and those a

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问题     An invisible border divides those arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students’ career prospects and those arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical educational reform. Very few writers on the subject have explored this distinction—indeed, contradiction—which goes to the heart of what is wrong with the campaign to put computers in the classroom.
    An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job is a technical education, justified for reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law. It is not simply to raise everyone’s job prospects that all children are legally required to attend school into their teens. Rather, we have a certain conception of the American citizen, a character who is incomplete if he cannot competently assess how his livelihood and happiness are affected by things outside of himself. But this was not always the case; before it was legally required for all children to attend school until a certain age, it was widely accepted that some were just not equipped by nature to pursue this kind of education. With optimism characteristic of all industrialized countries, we came to accept that everyone is fit to be educated. Computer-education advocates forsake this optimistic notion for a pessimism that betrays their otherwise cheery outlook. Banking on the confusion between educational and vocational reasons for bringing computers into schools, computered advocates often emphasize the job prospects of graduates over their educational achievement.
    There are some good arguments for a technical education given the right kind of student. Many European schools introduce the concept of professional training early on in order to make sure children are properly equipped for the professions they want to join. It is, however, presumptuous to insist that there will only be so many jobs for so many scientists, so many businessmen, so many accountants. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.
    But, for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not. Of course, the basics of using any computer these days are very simple. It does not take a lifelong acquaintance to pick up various software programs. If one wanted to become a computer engineer, that is, of course, an entirely different story. Basic computer skills take—at the very longest—a couple of months to learn. In any case, basic computer skills are only complementary to the host of real skills that are necessary to becoming any kind of professional. It should be observed, of course, that no school, vocational or not, is helped by a confusion over its purpose.
Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 2?
选项 A、Technical education justified the education universally required by law.
B、All children are legally required to attend school to raise job prospects.
C、A complete American citizen should know the real meaning of happiness.
D、Some children are not equipped by nature to pursue education.
答案C
解析 根据题目要求，本题定位到第二段。第二段第三句称我们对美国公民有一个既定的理解，即如果一个人不能充分地评价外在因素对自身的生活和幸福(happiness)的影响，那么他是不完整的(incomplete)，也就是说，幸福的真正意义是受到外界因素的影响的，并不是一个人努力奋斗就一定幸福，因此选项C与原文是相同含义，是正确选项。选项A出自第一句，但原文并没提及职业教育能证明法律广泛要求的教育是合理的，原文强调的是职业教育与法律所规定的普及教育之间是完全不同的(radically different)，因此选项A偷换概念。选项B正反混淆，第二段第二句说，法律要求所有儿童在十几岁必须接受教育的目的并非单纯地(not simply to)要加强他们的就业能力。选项D偷换概念，第二段第四句话是过去时，it was widely accepted that some were just not equipped by nature to pursue this kind of education，也就是说，当时人们认为某些孩子天生不适合接受教育，但现在并不这样认为，因为第五句话用的现在时everyone is fit to be educated，因此选项D偷换了时态，也与原文相反。
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