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  • Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

    As the twentieth century began, the importance of formal education in the United States increased. The frontier had mostly disappeared and by 1910 most Americans lived in towns and cities. Industrialization and the bureaucratization of economic life combined with a new emphasis upon credentials and expertise to make schooling increasingly important for economic and social mobility. Increasingly, too, schools were viewed as the most important means of integrating immigrants into American society.

    The arrival of a great wave of southern and eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century coincided with and contributed to an enormous expansion of formal schooling. By 1920 schooling to age fourteen or beyond was compulsory in most states, and the school year was greatly lengthened. Kindergartens, vacation schools, extracurricular activities, and vocational education and counseling extended the influence of public schools over the lives of students, many of whom in the larger industrial cities were the children of immigrants. Classes for adult immigrants were sponsored by public schools, corporations, unions, churches, settlement houses, and other agencies.

    Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs should suit the needs of specific populations. Immigrant women were once such population. Schools tried to educate young women so they could occupy productive places in the urban industrial economy, and one place many educators considered appropriate for women was the home.

    Although looking after the house and family was familiar to immigrant women, American education gave homemaking a new definition. In pre-industrial economies, homemaking had meant the production as well as the consumption of goods, and it commonly included income-producing activities both inside and outside the home, in the highly industrialized early-twentieth-century United States, however, overproduction rather than scarcity was becoming a problem. Thus, the ideal American homemaker was viewed as a consumer rather than a producer. Schools trained women to be consumer homemakers cooking, shopping, decorating, and caring for children "efficiently" in their own homes, or if economic necessity demanded, as employees in the homes of others. Subsequent reforms have made these notions seem quite out-of-date.

    Câu hỏi:

    According to the passage, early-twentieth century education reformers believed that _______.

    • A. corporations and other organizations damaged educational progress
    • B. special programs should be set up in frontier communities to modernize them
    • C. different groups needed different kinds of education
    • D. more women should be involved in education and industry

    Lời giải tham khảo:

    Đáp án đúng: C

    Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

    Giải thích:

    Theo đoạn văn, các nhà cải cách giáo dục đầu thế kỷ XX tin rằng _______.

    A. các tập đoàn và tổ chức khác đã làm hỏng tiến trình giáo dục

    B. các chương trình đặc biệt nên được thiết lập trong các cộng đồng biên giới để hiện đại hóa chúng

    C. các nhóm dân số khác nhau cần các kiểu giáo dục khác nhau

    D. nhiều phụ nữ nên tham gia vào nền giáo dục và nền công nghiệp

    Thông tin: Reformers early in the twentieth century suggested that education programs should suit the needs of specific populations.

    Tạm dịch: Các nhà cải cách đầu thế kỷ XX cho rằng các chương trình giáo dục phải phù hợp với nhu cầu của các nhóm dân số cụ thể.

    Chọn C

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Môn học: Tiếng Anh

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