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  3. All Americans are at least vaguely【C1】______ with the plight of the America

All Americans are at least vaguely【C1】______ with the plight of the America

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问题      All Americans are at least vaguely【C1】______ with the plight of the American Indian. Cutbacks in federal programs for Indians have made their problems【C2】______ more severe in recent years. Josephy reports," 【C3】______ 1981 it was estimated that cutbacks in federal programs for Indians totaled about $ 500 million" or more than ten times the cuts affecting their【C4】______ fellow Americans.  Additional cuts seem to be threatened in the future.  This reduced funding is affecting almost all【C5】______ of reservation life,【C6】______ education. If the Indians could【C7】______   their【C8】______ problems, solutions to many of their other problems might not-be far behind. In this paper the current status of Indian education will be described and【C9】______  and some ways of improving this education will be proposed.
     Whether to【C10】______ with the dominant American culture or to【C11】______ Indian culture has been a longstanding issue in Indian education. After the Civil War full responsibility for Indian education was turned over by the government to churches and missionary groups. The next fifty years became a period of【C12】______ assimilation in all areas of Indian culture, but especially in religion and education .
     John Collier, a reformer who agitated【C13】______ Indians and their culture【C14】______ the early 1920s until his death in 1968, had a different idea. He believed that instead of effacing native culture, Indian schools should encourage and【C15】______ it.
     Pressure to assimilate remains a potent force today,【C16】______ More and more Indians are graduating from high school and college and becoming【C17】______ for jobs in the non-Indian society. "When Indians obtain the requisite skills, many of them enter the broader American society and succeed." 【C18】______ approximately 90 percent of all Indian children are educated in state public school systems. How well these children compete with the members of the dominant society,【C19】 ______  , is another【C20】______ . [br] 【C11】
选项 A、preserve
B、keep up with
C、acknowledge
D、confess
答案 A
解析 从文章的内容来看，这里讲的是要不要“保留”印第安文化的问题，故A项preserve“保留，维持”符合题意，B项keep up with“跟上”不符题意，acknowledge及confess“承认”不符题意。
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