The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift i

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问题    The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s, but especially in the Depression of the 1930’s, the United States experienced a 【C1】______  birth rate.  Then with the prosperity 【C2】______  by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed, young people married and 【C3】______  households earlier and began to 【C4】______  larger families than had their 【C5】______  during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. 【C6】______  economics was probably the most important 【C7】______  , it is not the only explanation for the baby boom.  The increased value placed 【C8】______  the idea of the family also helps to 【C9】______  this rise in birth rates. The  baby  boomers  began  streaming 【C10】______  the first grade by the mid-1940s and became a 【C11】______  by 1950. The public school  system  suddenly  found  itself 【C12】______  The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945. 【C13】______ , large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for better-paid jobs elsewhere.
【C14】______  , in the 1950s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and 【C15】______  school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the
1930s no longer made 【C16】______  ; keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high 【C17】______  for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators 【C18】______  turned toward the lower grades and back to basic  academic  skills  and 【C19】______  The system no longer had much 【C20】______  in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to the older youths. [br] 【C15】

选项 A、deficient
B、incomplete
C、inadequate
D、partial

答案 C

解析形容词辨析题。inadequate意思是“不足的，不充分”，特指没有足够的能力来实现某种需求或达到某种要求的；deficient表示“有缺陷的，缺乏某种重要品质或要素的；或者在数量或程度方面不足的”，与此处所强调的重心不一样；而incomplete则指从宏观上、整体上看“不完全的，不完整的”；partial意思是“部分的，不完全的”，也可以表示“偏爱的，有偏见的”，不合题意。

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