A．从下列单词中选择恰当的词填空，每个词只能用一次。

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Education is one of the biggest and most important jobs of government in the United States. However, it is a task  51 is carried out by local governments rather than the federal government. Help from Washington  52  comes in the form of money and research. There are no national educational standards or regulations,    53   there are in many other countries. Local areas-states or cities or counties - have kept control  54  their own school systems. In spite of local control, school systems throughout the country  55  very similar. A child can transfer from a school in one state to a school in  56  without meeting any serious difficulty. Different books may be required or different  57  may be offered, but the same basic subjects are  58  throughout the country.

The normal school system in the United States consists of six years of  59    

school and six years of high school. In many areas, high school is  60  into three years of junior high school and three of senior. Each school year is called a grade.

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