单选题 What does the author think of the traditional taxi service?
A．It will be replaced by Uber soon.
B．It will become a tourist attraction.
C．It will not be a promising career any more.
D．It will become a symbol of the old England.
由题干中的taxi service定位至文章最后一段第二至五句。
观点态度题。定位句提到，格列佛及家人在美国把乘坐出租车当成了一个旅游项目，而在实际的代步工具上还是选择了优步，可见，作者认为出租车的实用性不如优步，表达了对出租车行业的担忧，并在该段最后一句指出，再过多久他也会仅仅成为那些想要领略“旧日英伦”风情的人们心目中的稀奇物?
可见，作者认为这个行业前景不佳，故答案为C。A“它将很快被优步取代”，说法过于绝对，作者虽然认为优步现在的发展很快，但也没有说它可以很快取代传统的出租车行业，故排除；B“它将成为一个旅游项目”，虽然作者提到格列佛因女儿的要求将乘坐出租车当成了旅游项目，但并没有说整个出租车行业将来会被人们当成旅游项目，推理比较牵强，故排除；D“它将成为旧日英伦的象征”，这是对文章最后一句的曲解，这里是表达作者的担忧，他怕出租车行业未来将会过时，从日常生活服务中消失，故排除。
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1Questions are based on the following passage.
Education in most of the developing world is shocking. Half of children in South Asia and a third of those in Africa who complete four years of schooling cannot read properly. Most governments have promised to provide universal primary education and to promote secondary education. But even when public schools exist, they often fail.
The failure of state education, combined with the shift in emerging economies from farming to jobs that need at least a modicum (少量) of education, has caused a private-school boom. According to the World Bank, across the developing world a fifth of primary-school pupils are enrolled in private schools, twice as many as 20 years ago. So many private schools are unregistered that the real figure is likely to be much higher.
By and large, politicians and educationalists are unenthusiastic. Governments see education as the state's job. NGOs tend to be ideologically opposed to the private sector. The U. N. special rapporteur (报告人) on education, Kishore Singh, has said that "for-profit education should not be allowed in order to safeguard the noble cause of education".
This attitude harms those whom educationalists claim to serve: children. The boom in private education is excellent news for them and their countries, for three reasons.
First, it is bringing in money--not just from parents, but also from investors, some in search of a profit.
Most private schools in the developing world are single operators that charge a few dollars a month, but chains are now emerging.
Second, private schools are often better value for money than state ones. Measuring this is hard, since the children who go to private schools tend to be better off, and therefore likely to perform better. But a rigorous four-year study of 6,000 pupils in Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, suggested that private pupils performed better in English and Hindi than public-school pupils, and the private schools achieved these results at a third of the cost of the public schools.
Lastly, private schools are innovative. Since technology has great (though as yet mostly unrealized. potential in education, this could be important. Bridge gives teachers tablets linked to a central system that provides teaching materials and monitors their work. Such robo-teaching may not be ideal, but it is better than lessons without either materials or monitoring.
The private sector has problems. But the alternative is often a public school that is worse--or no school at all. The growth of private schools is a manifestation of the healthiest of instincts: parents' desire to do the best for their children. Governments should therefore be asking not how to discourage private education, but how to boost it. Ideally, they would subsidize (以津贴补助) private schools, preferably through a voucher (凭证) which parents could spend at the school of their choice and top up; they would regulate schools to ensure quality; they would run public exams to help parents make informed choices.
According to the author, the state governments in developing countries fail to ________.
A．provide proper education for all the school age children
B．fulfill their promises by establishing enough public schools
C．improve education quality of the existing public schools
D．speed up the social shift from farming to manufacturing
