单选题 Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers—now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Youses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine (巴勒斯坦), visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they'd hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Harmon, and he was the first teacher hired.
The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and it's a partnership between Chicago Public Schools and the U.S. Government. Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1-B visas. The Government grants these visas only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can't be filled with available U,S, workforce.
Through the GEO, the school district has hired dozens of teachers from 22 different countries. Applicants must pass an English language test and specialize in math, science, world language or bilingual (双语的) education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year.
What do the GEO teachers think of the American classroom? Harmon, who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School, says classrooms in Chicago are very different from those in Palestine. For one thing, he says, the fixed schedule that forces students to attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dull. In Palestine, the class schedule changes each week. He says in Palestine, the culture forces students to work hard because if they don't they'll be kicked out and put in vocational schools, which limits their career options. There is not nearly as much pressure for American students to do well He says he has to do double the amount of work just to get his students interested.

单选题 Chicago Public Schools began to employ foreign teachers because ______.
A. there were not enough American teachers
B. a program for foreign teachers was started.
C. the school board was interested in foreign teachers
D. foreign teachers taught better than American teachers

单选题 The American Government is involved in the program because ______.
A. the schools are public schools
B. the Government is to finance the program
C. the Government grants visas to the foreign teachers
D. the program involves bilingual education

单选题 It seems that the Global Educator Outreach will ______.
A. be difficult to continue
B. last a limited period of time
C. pose a threat to U.S. workforce
D. be extended to other cities

单选题 Chicago Public Schools do not seem to, lack teachers of ______.
A. English B. math C. science D. world language

单选题 Hannon, as a GEO teacher, has found that ______.
A. class schedules in America and Palestine are very much the same
B. fixed class schedules make it easy for teachers to prepare lessons
C. vocational schools offer a good career option for American students
D. American students do not work as hard as Palestinian students