【正确答案】 1、正确答案：The National Education Association is endeavoring to increase teachers" basic salary up to 40, 000 dollars a year. Why not? These teachers can teach six-year-old children to do addition and enable teenagers to understand algebra. Naturally we should make a calculation carefully, thus paying the teachers salaries commensurate with their devotion. Now that the entrepreneurs, also the wealthiest, benefit most from the well-educated people, a National Talent Foundation should be established to increase teachers" salaries by using the taxes paid by profitable corporations. Or such a clause should be added in the regulations of all states and communities, that the upward ratio of congressmen"s salaries should not be higher than that of teachers. In recent years, if it"s admitted that there is an increase in teachers" salaries, the growth rate is lower than that of other occupations, and lags far behind that of inflation. Besides, teachers should be backed by the strongest supporters in this country, not the Teachers Union, but us, their former students. Thanks to their encouragement, we are able to become writers. Of course, most Americans may have the same feeling that it is teachers who give them a hand to surpass themselves.