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of ______________. A. the expansion of the contents of libraries B. the development of special libraries C. the entertaining function of libraries D. the recording service in libraries44. In the last paragraph, the word patrons probably means ____________. A. professional people B. academic researchers C. librarians D. readers45. The information provided in this passage may help us _____________. A. make better use of the library as a useful service institution B. pay more attention to uptodate news provided in libraries C. better understand librarians and appreciate their hard work D. save more time for entertainment in library activities太奇1月MBA英語閱讀每日一練(7)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 Rouses 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 foreignborn teachers like Hannon, 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 . Government. Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1B visas. The Government grants these vise only to skilled foreignborn citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can’ t be filled with available . 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(雙語的) education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 20002001 school year.What do the GEO teachers think of the American classroom?Hannon, 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 bees 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 amounts of work just to get his students interested.36. Chicago Public Schools began to employ foreign teachers because _______.A. there were not enough American teachers B. a program for foreign teachers was startedC. the school board was interested in foreign teachersD. foreign teachers taught better than American teachers37. The American Government is involved in the program because _______.A. the schools are public schools B. the Government is to finance the programC. the Government grants visas to the foreign teachersD. the program involves bilingual education38. It seems that the Global Educator Outreach will _______.A. be difficult to continue B. last a limited period of timeC. pose a threat to US workforce D. be extended to other cities39. Chicago Public Schools do not seem to lack teachers of _______.A. English B. mathC. science D. world language40. Hannon, as a GEO teacher, has found that _______.A. class schedules in America and Palestine are very much the sameB. fixed class schedules make it easy for teachers to prepare lessonsC. vocational schools offer a good career option for American studentsD. American students do not work as hard as Palestinian students12 / 1