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] 【C17】

选项 A、notoriety
B、compatibility
C、proximity
D、priority

答案 D

解析名词词义题。句意为：通过让十六岁及以上年龄的年轻人呆在学校，以使他们不进入劳动力市场的方法已经不再是教育机构优先考虑的问题了。notoriety意思是“恶名，臭名昭著”； compatibility表示“兼容性”；proximity表示“接近”，不合题意。答案为priority"优先”。

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