1. Teaching is an occupation known for_______.
A) high status              
B) low salary            
C) good welfare          
D) great ability
2. What's the key factor to Strengthenachievement for a school?
A) A good teacher.         
B) The class size.        
C) Finance.              
D) Textbooks.
3. Merit pay attempts to pay teachersaccording to_________.
A) the length of working year                         
B) number of titles attained
C) their working performance                            
D) profit they made for school
4. Student test scores have become the keymeasure of teachers' performance due to __
A) the lack of well-accepted standards                 
B) the absence of federal funding
C) strong theoretical support                           
D) past successful experience
5. How does Hillary Clinton think about themerit pay?
A) She is planning to cancel the merit payprogram.
B) She advocates the merit pay forindividual teachers.
C) She agrees the school staff should bepaid based on performance.
D) She supports that teachers are paidbased on working experience.
6. What has been the result of the meritpay program in Florida and Houston?
A) It has improved the quality ofinstruction.           
B) It has provided more professionaltrainings.
C) It has had an positive effect oneducation.           
D) It has turned out to be a failure.
7. Merit-pay movements in the past didn'tsucceed because __
A) the schools couldn't decide how muchshould a good teacher be paid
B) more and more schools were run bybusiness-minded people
C) unfairness was created when deciding whoshould get the extra money
D) the government didn't give enoughsupport to the movement
8. The annual tests for students bring anew, ______way to measure the teaching quality.
9. Based on the test results in Tennessee,Sanders devised a way to measure how a teacher to student progress.
10. Sanders' method was at first created asa management tool for administrators rather than __________