The U.S. Department of Education is making efforts to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education. Today it is (36)_____ the launch of the Excellent Educators for All Initiative. The initiative will help states and school districts support great educators for the students who need them most.

    “All children are (37)_____ to a high-quality education regardless of their race, zip code or family income. It is (38)_____ important that we provide teachers and principals the support they need to help students reach their full (39)_____,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said. “Despite the excellent work and deep (40)_____ of our nation’s teachers and principals, students in high-poverty, high-minority schools are unfairly treated across our country. We have to do better. Local leaders and educators will (41)_____ their own creative solutions, but we must work together to (42)_____ our focus on how to better recruit, support and (43)_____ effective teachers and principals for all students, especially the kids who need them most.”

    Today’s announcement is another important step forward in improving access to a quality education, a (44)_____ of President Obama’s year of action. Later today, Secretary Duncan will lead a roundtable discussion with principals and school teachers from across the country about the (45)_____ of working in high-need schools and how to adopt promising practices for supporting great educators in these schools.

[解析]

名词

challenges 挑战

commitment 投入

component 组成部分

contests 比赛

potential 潜能

动词

announcing 宣布

develop 制定

distributing 分发

enhance 提高

entitled 使……有权利

retain 留用

形容词

beneficial 有益的

qualified 胜任的

副词

critically 很大程度上

properly 正确地

36. announcing。此处需要填入动词的现在分词形式。其中distribute无法和launch搭配，故排除。句意为：今天，美国教育部将要宣布“卓越教育家服务所有人”项目的启动。

37. entitled。此处需要填入动词的现在分词形式、被动形式或形容词。此句后半句有regardless of their race...（不论他们的种族……），就比较容易联想到前半句话应为：“孩子们都应有权受到高质量的教育”。

38. critically。此处需要填入副词，properly一般不能用来修饰important。

39. potential。此处需要填入名词。原文说的是help students reach their full _____（帮助学生充分发挥……），由此可知，此处填入potential最佳。句意为：为需要帮助的老师和校长提供帮助是非常重要的，这样他们才能帮助学生发挥最大的潜力。

40. commitment。此处需要填入名词。需要注意的是，此句中有despite，也就是说，主句和从句成对比关系，由此可推知此处需要填入含有积极意义的词汇，与后半句的“学生没有得到公正对待”形成对比。句意为：虽然我们国家的老师和校长既专业又负责，但是全国都可以看见那些贫困地区的和少数民族多的学校里，孩子们被不公平对待的情况。

41. develop。此处需要填入动词原形，且这个词需要能跟solutions（解决办法或方案）搭配，因此选择develop。句意为：地方官员和教育学家们要因地制宜开发解决当地问题的方法。

42. enhance。此处需要填入动词原形，且这个词需要能跟focus（注意力）搭配，由此可联想到：提高注意力、分散注意力……等等，因此选enhance。

43. retain。此处需要填入动词原形，因为这个词需要与前面的recruit和support形成并列关系，retain意为保留，可以与后面的effective teachers and principals搭配。以上两题所在句的意思是：但我们必须要共同努力，集中精力在如何为孩子招聘、扶持和留住专业的老师和校长，尤其是为了那些急需这些老师和校长的孩子。

44. component。此处需要填入可数名词。由这句话中的another important step和year of action可知，这个声明是年度举措的一部分，因此选择component。句意为：今天宣布的内容是迈向高质量教育的重要一步，是奥巴马行动年的重要组成部分。

45. challenges。此处应填名词。此空比较难选，因为commitment和potential似乎都能填到这里，可是这句话的后半句说how to adopt...，可知这个圆桌会议讨论的是比较难办到或困难的事情，因此选challenges。句意为：今天晚些时候，参议员Duncan将会主持一场有全国各地老师校长参会的圆桌会议，讨论在急需改善条件的学校里工作的挑战性，以及如何在这些学校里采取行之有效的办法帮助这些教育工作者。