单选题Until recently, the main villains of the piece had seemed to be the teachers" unions, who have opposed any sort of reform or accountability. Now they face competition from an unexpectedly destructive force: the court. Fifty years ago, it was the judges who forced the schools to desegregate through Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Now the courts have moved from broad principles to micromanagement, telling schools how much money to spend and where - right down to the correct computer or textbook. Twenty four states are currently Stuck in various court cases to do with financing school systems, and another 21 have only recently settled various suits. Most will start again soon. Only five states have avoided litigation entirely. Nothing exemplifies the power of the courts better than an 11-year-old case that is due to be settled (sort of) in New York City, the home of America"s biggest school system with 1. lm students and a budget nearing $13 billion. At the end of this month, three elderly members of the New York bar serving as judicial referees are due to rule in a case brought By the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a leftish advocacy group, against the state of New York: they will decide how much more must Be spent to provide every New York City pupil with a "sound basic" education. Rare is the politician willing to argue that more money for schools is a bad thing. But are the courts doing any good? Two suspicions arise. First, judges are making a lazy assumption that more money means better schools. As the international results show, the link between "inputs" and "outputs" is vague--something well documented by, among others, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York. Second, the courts are muddling an already muddled system. Over time, they have generally made it harder to get rid of disruptive pupils and bad teachers. The current case could be even worse. The courts have already said that, in order to determine the necessary spending, they may consider everything from class size to the availability of computers, textbooks and even pencils. This degree of intervention is all the more scandalous because the courts have weirdly decided to ignore another set of "inputs"--the archaic work practices of school teachers and janitors. David Schoenbrod and Ross Sandier of New York Law School reckon the demands of the court will simply undermine reform and transform an expensive failure into a more expensive one. And of course, the litigation never ends. Kentucky, for example, is still in court 16 years after the first decision. A lawsuit first filed against New Jersey for its funding of schools in 1981 was "decided" four years later--but it has returned to the court nine times since, including early this year, with each decision pushing the court deeper into the management of the state"s schools. Bad iudges are even harder to boot out of school than bad pupils.

单选题(2005)At last the girl_____my invitation.

单选题选出应填入下面一段英语中______内的正确答案。 When the system upon which a transport entity is running fails and subsequently restarts, the (1) information of all active connections is lost. The affected connections become half-open, as the side that did not fail does not yet realize the problem. The still active side of a half-open connections can close the connection using a (2) timer. This timer measures the time transport machine will continue to await an (3) of a transmitted segment after the segment has been retransmitted the maximum number of times. When the timer (4) the transport entity assumes that either the other transport entity or the intervening network has failed. As a result, the timer closes the connection, and signals an abnormal close to the TS user. In the event that a transport entity fails and quickly restart, half-open connections can be terminated more quickly by the use of the RST segment. The failed side returns an RST i to every segment i that it receives. When the RST i reaches the other side, it must be checked for validity based on the (5) number i, as the RST could be in response to an old segment. If the reset is valid, the transport entity performs an abnormal termination.

单选题I have been keeping that photo ______ I can see it every day, as it always reminds me of my college days.A. whichB. whereC. whetherD. when

单选题According to the passage, Bob Nadkami is ______

单选题Sons of high-ranking females may remain at the center of the troop while others are driven to the ______. A. periphery B. predict C. propitiatory D. peripheral

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单选题To reach a correct conclusion, they had debated the subject ______.

单选题 1 summary of the physical and chemical 2 of life must begin, not on the Earth, but 3 the Sun; in fact, 4 the Sun"s very center. 5 is here that is to be found the 6 of the energy that the Sun constantly 7 space 8 light and heat. This energy is liberated at the center of the Sun as billions upon billions of nuclei hydrogen atoms 9 each other and 10 to form nuclei of helium, and, 11 doing so, 12 some of the energy that is stored in the nuclei of atoms. The output of light and heat of the Sun 13 that some 600 million tons of hydrogen 14 helium in the Sun every second. This the Sun 15 for several thousands of millions of years.

单选题—Have you visited the Science Museum? —No, but I really wish I ______ . A．will B．have C．did D．had

单选题In the second paragraph "straight" means ______.

单选题3 Kevin Rogers used to be my boss. At that time he was a hard-working, up-and-coming businessman and a real slave-driver, always telling us we had to sell more and more. As soon as I could, I got a job with another company. The last time I saw Rogers was more than ten years ago. At least that's what I thought until last Thursday. But now I'm not so sure. I was on my way back to my office in the center of town. There is a small park nearby which I sometimes walk through after lunch. It is empty, except for an unshaven, shabby looking man on one of the benches. He looked about fifty years old and was wearing an old, gray overcoat. It was a cold, wintry day, and he was shivering. "It's been a long time since I had a meal. Can you help me?" he said. There was some thing about his voice that sounded familiar. I gave him a few coins and he mumbled some thing about being grateful. As he stumbled past me, I looked at his face closely. I won dered where I had seen him before. Then it hit me. Could it possibly be...? No! Impossible, I thought. I watched him walking away. He was the same height as Rogers but looked a lot thinner than I remembered. Then, as he left the park and turned down the street, I caught sight of his face again, this time in profile. The nose was the same as Rogers', too. I al most followed him but something made me stop. I just couldn't be sure. But the resem- blance was very close. Yesterday I ran into someone who had worked for Rogers at the same time I did, and had stayed on longer. I started telling him about the man I had seen in the park. For a mo ment I thought it was our old boss. The voice, the nose, and even the face were just like Rogers, but it couldn't have been. "Rogers must be the director of a big company by now," I said. My ex-colleague shook his head. "I thought you knew. " "Knew? Knew what? What are you talking about?" "Rogers was sent to prison six years ago. He's probably out by now. For all I know he's sleeping on park benches and begging money from passers-by. /

单选题We are, therefore, ______ to claim on you to ______ us for the loss of $27500, which we have sustained by the damage to the goods. A．compensate, compelled B．compensated, compelled C．compelled, compensate D．compel, compensate

单选题Nazism and Fascism were ______ to be thrown into the dump of history.

单选题When you're ready, I'll take you to ______ airport. A. / B. the C. a D. an

单选题The market has changed in character because now ______.

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