Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates recently told the nation’s governors that American high school education is “obsolete”. He said, “When I compare our high schools to what I see when I’m traveling abroad, I am terrified for our workforce of tomorrow. In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor’s degrees as the U.S. and has six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. America is falling behind.”
　　Gates was describing a global economy in which the chance to move up into a better economic life is slipping overseas, along with jobs that can be performed anywhere--manufacturing in China, technology support in India ,online order fulfillment across borders. The Internet brings Bhutan and Bangalore just as close to our offices and living rooms as Boise .Maybe closer.
　　Our children’s competitors are not the other schools in the district or the state or even the nation.
　　They ate the technologically literate young people in Taiwan, India, Korea, and other developing nations. For today’s American students, learning and retraining will be a lifelong experience.
　　In The World is Flat, a recent book analyzing the shift in the global economy, Thomas Friedman points out that the dot.com bubble inspired a massive outlay of capital to connect the continents.Undersea cable, universal software, high-tech imagery, and Google have erased geography. College graduates in Latin America, Central Asia, India, China, and Russia can do the information work Americans used to count on ---in many cases better and in all cases cheaper.
　　We are burning through reliable careers for our young people at high speed as technology relieves us of the tedium of repetitive work. The robots that vacuum our floors today will be filling our teeth tomorrow. Even jobs at Wal-Mart are endangered. Have you seen the self-check-out lanes? No cashiers required.
　　To be competitive now, U.S. Students must develop sophisticated critical thinking and analytical skills to manage the conceptual nature of the work they will do. They will need to be able to recognize patterns, create narrative, and imagine solutions to problems we have yet to discover. They will have to see the big picture and ask the big questions. How many high schools do you know that are nurturing minds like that?
　　Are we supplying the conditions in our schools to create a new crop of original thinkers? Are we making sure our curricula and instructional programs are not relegated for repetitive practice, gathering and organizing information, remediation, and test preparation? Are we requiring all students to use their learning?
　　1. Bill Gates believes that the American high schools are “obsolete” in ______.
　　A. graduating less students than schools in many other countries
　　B. providing insufficient workforce for American economy
　　C. offering low-standard education conditions compared with foreign schools
　　D. bringing out students with poor capabilities
　　2. According to the author, the challenge on American schools is come from______.
　　A. the progression of globalization of economy
　　B. the improvement of education in other countries
　　C. the development of science and technology
　　D. the flooding of foreign students
　　3. By saying that “Undersea cable, universal high-tech imagery, and Google have erased geography”, the author means that ______.
　　A. the development of information technology has made traveling around the world easier
　　B. the development of technology has led the world to share the source of information
　　C. the information technology has promoted the cooperation between workers in various areas
　　D. the information technology has enabled many jobs to be done anywhere
　　4. In order to compete with overseas students, American children will probably have to ______.
　　A. Learn to work with diverse groups
　　B. Master more practical skills
　　C. Have broader knowledge
　　D. Strengthen the ability of innovation
　　5. What does the last paragraph tell us about the education in US?
　　A. It is successful in helping the students pass various exams.
　　B. It encourages the students in conceptual thinking.
　　C. It nurtures the ability in solving complex problems.
　　D. It aims to train skilled workers for the society.
　　答案：A A D D D

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