[填空题]Young people in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading, maths and science, President Barack Obama said on Saturday, calling education reform an essential part of economic recovery.
In his weekly radio and video address, Obama said as many as a quarter of American students are not (36) high school and far too few young people are getting college degrees.
"It is an (37) fact that countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. Businesses will hire wherever the highly skilled, highly trained workers are located," the Democrat said. "We have to (38) up our game and raise our standards."
With the 2012 campaign for the US presidency heating up, Obama is speaking (39) often about education, a key issue for his political base.
His $447 billion job creation plan includes money for hiring teachers and school repairs, and on Friday he announced a (40) of "No Child Left

[填空题]Young people in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading, maths and science, President Barack Obama said on Saturday, calling education reform an essential part of economic recovery.
In his weekly radio and video address, Obama said as many as a quarter of American students are not (36) high school and far too few young people are getting college degrees.
"It is an (37) fact that countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow. Businesses will hire wherever the highly skilled, highly trained workers are located," the Democrat said. "We have to (38) up our game and raise our standards."
With the 2012 campaign for the US presidency heating up, Obama is speaking (39) often about education, a key issue for his political base.
His $447 billion job creation plan includes money for hiring teachers and school repairs, and on Friday he announced a (40) of "No Child Left

[单项选择]In the United States, 36 states currently allow capital punishment for serious crimes such as murder. Americans have always argued about the death penalty. Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors--i, e. , under the age of 18--to receive the death penalty
In most other countries of the world, there is no capital punishment for minors. In the United States, though, each state makes its own decision. Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.
In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor. In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends brutally murdered three people. Roach’s lawyer fought the decision to execute him. The young murderer remained on Death Row (a separate part of prison for
A. asked the governor for help
B. stopped the execution
C. let the courts do their job
D. fought with the governor

[单项选择]The United States is a confederation of states．Each state has the (26) to make laws with regard to the state． (27) , based on public opinion，states can (28) policies regarding education, and they may (29) a state income tax; they also determine the speed (30) , housing codes and the drinking age．
In most parts of the United States, you (31) be 21 years old to buy alcohol in a liquor store, bar (32) restaurant．In some states you may buy beer in a grocery store．If a store sells alcohol to a minor,the (33) of the store is usually (34) a large sum of money．
(35) many areas have an open-container law, (36) means that people may not drink alcohol on the street or in a car．Anyone (37) with an open container of alcohol may be arrested．
(38) with all these laws, the (39) of alcohol is a serious (40) in the United
A. condition
B. crisis
C. question
D. problem