All Americans are at least vaguely【C1】______ with the plight of the American Indian. Cutba

All Americans are at least vaguely (1)_____ with the (2)_____ of the American Indian. Cutbacks in federal programs for Indians have made their problems (3)_____ more severe in recent years. Josephy reports," (4)_____ 1981 it was estimated that cut, backs in federal programs for Indians totaled about $500 million" (5)_____ mole than ten times the cuts affecting their (6)_____ fellow Americans. This reduced funding is affecting almost all aspects of reservation life, (7)_____ education. If the Indians could solve their (8)_____ problems, solutions to many of their other problems might not be far behind. In, this paper the current status of Indian education will be described and (9)_____ and some ways of improving this education will be proposed.

Whether to (10)_____ with the dominant American culture or to (11)_____ Indian culture has been a longstanding issue in Indian education. The next fifty years became a period of (12)_____ assimilation in all areas of Indian culture, but especially in religion and education.

John Collier, a reformer who agitated. (13)_____ Indians and their culture from the early 1920s until his death in 1968, had a different idea. He believed that instead of effacing native culture, Indian schools (14)_____ encourage and (15)_____ it.

Pressure to assimilate remains a potent force today, (16)_____. More and more Indians are graduating from high school and college and becoming (17)_____ for jobs in the non-Indian society." When Indians obtain the requisite skills, many of them enter the broader American society and succeed." (18)_____ approximately 90 percent of all Indian children are educated in state public school systems (Taylor 136, 155). (19)_____ these children compete with the members of the dominant society, however, is another (20)_____.

A．agreeable

B．regardless

C．familiar

D．sympathetic

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A．at least

B．in the least

C．at the least

D．least of all

______ Americans owned a bathtub as early as 1895.

A. Many

B. Not all

C. All

D. Few

Americans owned a bathtub as early as 1895.

[A] Many

[B] Not all

[C] All

[D] Few

________ Americans owned a bathtub as early as 1895

[A] Many

[B] Not all

[C] All

[D] Few

Americans use their cars for nearly 90 per cent of all personal ______.

A．trips

B．travels

C．voyage

D．journey

Americans do not care at all whether you are on time or not.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Doesn't say