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第 44 題
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Reading 5 Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides developed, in part, to take into consideration the state's “Don’t Say Gay” Laws. The changes to the Hillsborough County Public Schools' curriculum guides were made with Florida's new laws prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in mind. Other reasons included revised state standards and an effort to get students to read a wide variety of books for new state exams, the school district said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. Several Shakespeare plays use suggestive puns and innuendo, and it is implied that the protagonists have had premarital sex in "Romeo and Juliet." Shakespeare's books will be available for checkout at media centers at schools, said the district, which covers the Tampa area. "First and foremost, we have not excluded Shakespeare from our high school curriculum. Students will still have the physical books to read excerpts in class," the statement said. "Curriculum guides are continually reviewed and refined throughout the year to align with state standards and current law." In Lake County, outside Orlando, the school district reversed a decision, made in response to the legislation, to restrict access to a popular children's book about a male penguin couple hatching a chick. The School Board of Lake County and Florida education officials last week asked a federal judge to toss out a First Amendment lawsuit that students and the authors of "And Tango Makes Three" filed in June. Their complaint challenged the restrictions and Florida's new laws. The lawsuit is moot because age restrictions on "And Tango Makes Three" were lifted following a Florida Department of Education memo that said the new law applied only to classroom instruction and not school libraries, according to motions filed Friday by Florida education officials and school board members.
Reading 5 Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides developed, in part, to take into consideration the state's “Don’t Say Gay” Laws. The changes to the Hillsborough County Public Schools' curriculum guides were made with Florida's new laws prohibiting classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in mind. Other reasons included revised state standards and an effort to get students to read a wide variety of books for new state exams, the school district said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. Several Shakespeare plays use suggestive puns and innuendo, and it is implied that the protagonists have had premarital sex in "Romeo and Juliet." Shakespeare's books will be available for checkout at media centers at schools, said the district, which covers the Tampa area. "First and foremost, we have not excluded Shakespeare from our high school curriculum. Students will still have the physical books to read excerpts in class," the statement said. "Curriculum guides are continually reviewed and refined throughout the year to align with state standards and current law." In Lake County, outside Orlando, the school district reversed a decision, made in response to the legislation, to restrict access to a popular children's book about a male penguin couple hatching a chick. The School Board of Lake County and Florida education officials last week asked a federal judge to toss out a First Amendment lawsuit that students and the authors of "And Tango Makes Three" filed in June. Their complaint challenged the restrictions and Florida's new laws. The lawsuit is moot because age restrictions on "And Tango Makes Three" were lifted following a Florida Department of Education memo that said the new law applied only to classroom instruction and not school libraries, according to motions filed Friday by Florida education officials and school board members.
In response to the new state laws mentioned in the passage, the school district of the Tampa area
- A filed law suits against the author of the book "And Tango Makes Three"
- B assured the public that students will still be reading the excerpts of Shakespeare’s plays
- C reaffirmed the importance of gender diversity
- D proclaimed the importance of "Romeo and Juliet"
- E suppressed the teachers’ union in Florida
思路引導 VIP
若你現在是該學區的官方發言人,當大眾質疑你們因為新法規而徹底『禁掉』了莎士比亞的作品時,你會指著文中的哪一段話來向家長解釋,孩子們在課堂上實際上『依然』被允許閱讀什麼樣的內容?這份正式聲明提到的具體做法是什麼?
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
非常好!你能從內容豐富的新聞報導中精準擷取關鍵資訊,這展現了你優異的**細節定位(Scanning)**能力。這題的關鍵在於將題目中的「坦帕(Tampa)地區」與文中提到的「希爾斯伯勒郡公立學校(Hillsborough County Public Schools)」建立連結。
文本細節的精準對應
文中第四段明確引用了學區的官方聲明:「最重要的是,我們並未將莎士比亞排除在高中課程之外。學生在課堂上仍會有實體書來閱讀摘錄(excerpts)。」這段話直接印證了選項 (B) 的描述,即學區向大眾保證學生仍會接觸到這些經典文學的選段,而非完全移除。此外,文中也提到這些更動是為了符合州政府的新法律規範。
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