SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND—A British teaching union famous for strange ideas has supported a plan to employ dogs as classroom assistants.
At the yearly conference of the Professional Association of Teachers in Southport, northwest England, one person suggested properly trained dogs be able to keep order in primary schools. They can round up lost children and protect those who experience unfortunate “accidents”. Wendy Dyble, a Sheetland Islands woman who teaches children up to age seven, made it clear to her fellow friends that she was not “barking mad”. They obviously believed her, supporting her idea by 16 votes to 13, with a total of 63 abstentions（弃权）.
She said big dogs could help round up children, keep them in line, lick up the milk they spill on the floor and provide the extra eyes that a teacher needs to keep order. “A big dog would also be helpful for stopping flights and look for lost property, like gym shoes or dolls,” Dyble said at the conference. “The dog will also be useful in sniffing out(find out) smells that children do not own up to,” she added. “It would be nice for the teacher not to have to go round sniffing each child to find the criminal.”
The idea was weled by the Dog Defense League but less by bigger teaching unions. A spokesman for Education Secretary, David Blunkett, who is blind, said his guide dog was always popular with pupils when he visited schools. The Professional Association of Teachers, with around 35,000 members, is the smallest teaching union in Britain. It has an honor for occasional strange ideas.
Earlier this week, its yearly conference here suggested stopping exams because they lead to stress and introducing selection at the age of 12 based on physical coordination（调整）and manual（手工的）skill.
【小题1】According to the writer’s opinion, to employ dogs as classroom assistants .A．is not a good ideaB．can improve the relation between children and animalsC．is beyond ordinary people’s imaginationD．can make some teachers lose jobs【小题2】What Dyble said at the conference .A．gained some support from the membersB．frightened everyone presentC．interested everyone presentD．caused some trouble to trained dogs【小题3】The last paragraph of this passage .A．has nothing to do with the topic of this passageB．shows there are too many exams in British schoolC．provides further facts about the teaching unionD．shows the writer’s anger to the unionC
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(答案→)C
解析：
【小题1】第一段是全文的主题段，介绍英国一个教学组织提出的一个“怪异的”教学设想：雇佣狗作为教学助手。根据倒数第二段第一句得知，这种观点没有受到大多数人的欢迎。
【小题2】由第二段最后一句得知。
【小题3】联系前几段就会发现最后一段是进一步提供该教学组织的相关背景。