Section B
Passage One
[26]Americans who remember "the good old days" are not alone in complaining about the educational system in this country. Immigrants complain, too. Lately a German friend was filled with anger when he learned that the first mathematics test given to his son as a college freshman included multiplication and division. Japanese businessmen in Los Angeles send their children to private schools staffed by teachers imported from Japan who teach mathematics at more advanced level.
[27]But I wonder: If American education is so poor, why is it that this is still the country of innovation? When I was 12 in Indonesia, I had to memorize the name of all the world's major cities. At the same age, my son, who was brought up a Californian, thought that Buenos Aires was Spanish for good food. However, unlike children of his age in Asia and Europe, my son had studied creative geography. When he was only 6, he drew a map of the route that he traveled to get to school, including the streets, the traffic signs and the houses that he passed. Dissatisfied American parents forget that in this country their children are able to experiment freely with ideas; without this they will not be able to think or to believe in themselves. Critics of American education cannot grasp one thing: freedom. [28]America, I think, is the only country that extends even to children the license to freely speak, write and be creative. Our public education is not perfect, but it is better than any other.

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you just heard.
26. Who is dissatisfied with the quality of American education?
正確答案：C
解析：細節(jié)題。錄音提到，那些懷念過去美好時光的美國人并不是唯一抱怨美國教育體系的人，移民們也在抱怨。故C為正確答案。A、D在文中均有所提及，但并未提及其對美國教育體系的觀點；B中包含speaker，而他對美國教育體系持支持態(tài)度，因此不能選B。
27. What does the speaker wonder?
正確答案：D
解析：細節(jié)兼推斷題。短文中說話者提出了這樣的質(zhì)疑：“如果美國的教育真的那么差，那為什么美國仍然是一個以創(chuàng)新自居的國家？”然后說話者進一步以自己和兒子之間的比較說明了美國教育的優(yōu)越性。由此不難推斷D為正確答案。A、B、C均涉及美國教育體系的某些問題，但太片面。
28. What do we know about American children from this passage?
正確答案：C
解析：推斷題。短文最后說話者表明了觀點“我們的教育體系不是完美的，但卻是最好的”。抓住短文大意后，不難判斷只有C才與說話者的觀點相符。