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        The world is changing and people are going to have to learn to get along. Being exposed to and buildingrelationships with people who look different can help us to have better attitudes and be more positive about otherraces and cultures. In 2017, researchers from UCLA published research showing a wide range of personal andsocial benefits for students of all races and ethnicities from attending ethnically diverse schools. The study foundthat middle school students from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds feel safer, less lonely and less bulliedif they attend schools that are more diverse. The study also found that students in diverse schools—those withmultiple ethnic groups of relatively equal size—reported more tolerance and less prejudice toward students ofother ethnicities and believe teachers treat all students more fairly and equally.
        Underscoring the importance of these findings, the study’s authors point out that the nation’s population hasbecome significantly more diverse and will become even more so. According to the National Center forEducation Statistics, as of 2015 more than half of school-age youth in the United States were ethnic minority. By 2040 White students will no longer be the majority in our nation’s public schools. Yet today, U.S. schools havebecome more segregated than at any time in the past 40 years. Immigration is changing everything. We need torealize it is in everybody’s interest for schools and classrooms to be more racially diverse. Diversity enhanceslearning because divergent points of view challenge students’ own beliefs.
【題組】46. What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) Being in a racially diverse environment benefits the students.
(B) More and more private schools are racially diverse in the U.S.
(C) The world is changing but schools should stay the same.
(D) Gender equality is the most important issue in education.