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From West Virginia to Arizona, public-school teachers are in revolt. They are demanding better pay, and they deserve it-so long as their salaries are tied to their performance.
It's not that U.S. teachers are underpaid; the median income for the country's l million high-school teachers, for example, is more than 50 percent higher than that of the general population. But relative to peers with similar levels of education, teachers are falling behind. In 1994, public-school teachers made only 2 percent less than college graduates in other fields; by 2015, the gap was 17 percent.
Cuts in state education budgets have made the problem WOfse. In more than half of the country, aftcr adjusting for inflation, average teacher salaries have declined since the start of the century. In West Virginia, where pay has dropped by 8.9 percent since 2000, teachers went on strike in late February, forcing Iawmakers to pass a 5 percent pay increase for the next school year, Teachers' unions in Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky plan similar walkouts if their demands aren't met.
To avoid such an outcome-which hurts students the most-both sides need to compromise.
Teachers shouldn't have to work second and third jobs to make ends meet, as many say they do, even in states with low are fiercely defended by teachers' uuions. But they reduce the funds available for other priorities-like encouraging teachers to relocate to rural and low-income districts and addressing shortages of teachers in STEM subjects.
Across-the-board pay increases for teachers may go some way toward improving student
performance, but not far enough. Despite opposition from unions, school districts in at least 30 states have introduced performance-based bonuses for teachers. In schools where teacher pay is tied to student performance, test scores have nsen by the equivalent of three additional weeks oflearning. Districts with merit pay are better able to hire strong entry-level candidates and prevent high-performing teachers from leaving.
Intemational comparisons bear out a basic, if self-evident, truth: how well students perform depends on how well they're taught. The U.S. should pay its teachers more-and give the best ones incentives to show how much they're worth.
21. Which of the following statements is true about U.S. teachers' salaries?

A. High-school teachers are considered to be overpaid.
B. Private-school teachers generally get higher income.
C. Public-school teachers' salaries depend on their perfornance.
D. High-school teachers' peers with a college education are much better paid.

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From West Virginia to Arizona, public-school teachers are in revolt. They are demanding better pay, and they deserve it-so long as their salaries are tied to their performance.
It's not that U.S. teachers are underpaid; the median income for the country's l million high-school teachers, for example, is more than 50 percent higher than that of the general population. But relative to peers with similar levels of education, teachers are falling behind. In 1994, public-school teachers made only 2 percent less than college graduates in other fields; by 2015, the gap was 17 percent.
Cuts in state education budgets have made the problem WOfse. In more than half of the country, aftcr adjusting for inflation, average teacher salaries have declined since the start of the century. In West Virginia, where pay has dropped by 8.9 percent since 2000, teachers went on strike in late February, forcing Iawmakers to pass a 5 percent pay increase for the next school year, Teachers' unions in Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky plan similar walkouts if their demands aren't met.
To avoid such an outcome-which hurts students the most-both sides need to compromise.
Teachers shouldn't have to work second and third jobs to make ends meet, as many say they do, even in states with low are fiercely defended by teachers' uuions. But they reduce the funds available for other priorities-like encouraging teachers to relocate to rural and low-income districts and addressing shortages of teachers in STEM subjects.
Across-the-board pay increases for teachers may go some way toward improving student
performance, but not far enough. Despite opposition from unions, school districts in at least 30 states have introduced performance-based bonuses for teachers. In schools where teacher pay is tied to student performance, test scores have nsen by the equivalent of three additional weeks oflearning. Districts with merit pay are better able to hire strong entry-level candidates and prevent high-performing teachers from leaving.
Intemational comparisons bear out a basic, if self-evident, truth: how well students perform depends on how well they're taught. The U.S. should pay its teachers more-and give the best ones incentives to show how much they're worth.
22. The word "walkouts" (Para. 3) most probably means

A. tactics.
B. strikes.
C. decisions.
D. attacks.

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From West Virginia to Arizona, public-school teachers are in revolt. They are demanding better pay, and they deserve it-so long as their salaries are tied to their performance.
It's not that U.S. teachers are underpaid; the median income for the country's l million high-school teachers, for example, is more than 50 percent higher than that of the general population. But relative to peers with similar levels of education, teachers are falling behind. In 1994, public-school teachers made only 2 percent less than college graduates in other fields; by 2015, the gap was 17 percent.
Cuts in state education budgets have made the problem WOfse. In more than half of the country, aftcr adjusting for inflation, average teacher salaries have declined since the start of the century. In West Virginia, where pay has dropped by 8.9 percent since 2000, teachers went on strike in late February, forcing Iawmakers to pass a 5 percent pay increase for the next school year, Teachers' unions in Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky plan similar walkouts if their demands aren't met.
To avoid such an outcome-which hurts students the most-both sides need to compromise.
Teachers shouldn't have to work second and third jobs to make ends meet, as many say they do, even in states with low are fiercely defended by teachers' uuions. But they reduce the funds available for other priorities-like encouraging teachers to relocate to rural and low-income districts and addressing shortages of teachers in STEM subjects.
Across-the-board pay increases for teachers may go some way toward improving student
performance, but not far enough. Despite opposition from unions, school districts in at least 30 states have introduced performance-based bonuses for teachers. In schools where teacher pay is tied to student performance, test scores have nsen by the equivalent of three additional weeks oflearning. Districts with merit pay are better able to hire strong entry-level candidates and prevent high-performing teachers from leaving.
Intemational comparisons bear out a basic, if self-evident, truth: how well students perform depends on how well they're taught. The U.S. should pay its teachers more-and give the best ones incentives to show how much they're worth.
23. According to the text, teachers' educational backgrounds and length of service are related to

A. merit pay.
B. across-the-board pay.
C. seniority salaries.
D. performance-based incentives.

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From West Virginia to Arizona, public-school teachers are in revolt. They are demanding better pay, and they deserve it-so long as their salaries are tied to their performance.
It's not that U.S. teachers are underpaid; the median income for the country's l million high-school teachers, for example, is more than 50 percent higher than that of the general population. But relative to peers with similar levels of education, teachers are falling behind. In 1994, public-school teachers made only 2 percent less than college graduates in other fields; by 2015, the gap was 17 percent.
Cuts in state education budgets have made the problem WOfse. In more than half of the country, aftcr adjusting for inflation, average teacher salaries have declined since the start of the century. In West Virginia, where pay has dropped by 8.9 percent since 2000, teachers went on strike in late February, forcing Iawmakers to pass a 5 percent pay increase for the next school year, Teachers' unions in Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky plan similar walkouts if their demands aren't met.
To avoid such an outcome-which hurts students the most-both sides need to compromise.
Teachers shouldn't have to work second and third jobs to make ends meet, as many say they do, even in states with low are fiercely defended by teachers' uuions. But they reduce the funds available for other priorities-like encouraging teachers to relocate to rural and low-income districts and addressing shortages of teachers in STEM subjects.
Across-the-board pay increases for teachers may go some way toward improving student
performance, but not far enough. Despite opposition from unions, school districts in at least 30 states have introduced performance-based bonuses for teachers. In schools where teacher pay is tied to student performance, test scores have nsen by the equivalent of three additional weeks oflearning. Districts with merit pay are better able to hire strong entry-level candidates and prevent high-performing teachers from leaving.
Intemational comparisons bear out a basic, if self-evident, truth: how well students perform depends on how well they're taught. The U.S. should pay its teachers more-and give the best ones incentives to show how much they're worth.
24. Performance-based pay has the following advantages except

A. better performance of students.
B. higher quality of teachers.
C. keeping excellent teachers staying.
D. improving teacher's research standard.

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Google or, technically, Alphabet, the holding company that the firm established in 2015, has its fingers in many fields. But the company's main business, which pays for all ofits spending elsewhere, is digital advertising, which in 2017 accounted for more than 86% ofits $lllbn revenue. It may seem odd, then, that Google's latest move is to aid ad-blocking. On February 15th, Chrome, its web browser, which has a 59% market share, switched on code to block certain online advertisements. In doing so it joins an established trend.
Third-party ad-blocking software is available already for Chrome but only for its desktop version. As well as being built in and thus on by default, the new blocker will work on smartphones. Web publishers will not welcome another threat to the efficacy of advertising, their main source ofincome. Google at least promises that only pages which display the most annoying ads-those that automatically play videos with sound, for instance-will fall foul ofits new filter. What counts as annoying is defined by the Coalition for Better Ads, a group of advertisers, technology firms and other companies of which Google is a member.
The online-ad industry has over the years developed an unusually hostile relationship with those to whom its products are served. In the early days of the internet, jiggling, brightly coloured animations were common. Pop-up advertisements, some of them uncloseable, became so prevalent that browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were modified to try to stop them. Ads may be more sophisticated now but still find ways to irritate. Dodgy ones are a popular delivery route for malware.
The ad industry, indeed, is in an arms race with blocker-writers. Many sites now try to detect ad-blockers, and force users to disable them if they want to visit websites. The ad-blockers have retaliated with techniques to dodge the detectors, and so on. Google's move thus looks like an attempt to save online advertising from itself. It is also launching a service called "Funding Choices" that is designed to allow website operators to invite people who use ad-blockers to pay small amounts to view their pages instead.
Its new products could land it in trouble. Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's competition chief, tweeted last year that she would be "closely" following the firm's ad-filtering efforts. The worry is that by defining what counts as an acceptable ad Google will amass still more power over online advertising. The European Commission fined it 2.4bn ($2.9bn) in 2017 for giving its price-comparison shopping service preferential treatment in search results over rival offerings. It was unclear that users of such services lost out much. Consumers also have lots to gain if Chrome can help stem the ad onslaught.
26. Technically speaking, the author would agree that

A. Google is a holding company that set up by Alphabet in 2015.
B. Google's holding company benefits from lots ofbusinesses.
C. Google's business is mainly in the field of digital advertising.
D. Google has given up blocking certain online ads recently.

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