单项选择题The expenditure in American public schools is guided or decided by ______.
单项选择题The second concern seems to be contradictory to the first one in that it argues ______.
单项选择题The Great Gatsby was written by ______.
单项选择题The solidarity-with-housewives strand of feminist thought (the first sentence in the fourth paragraph) refers to ______.
单项选择题The word strand ( the first sentence in the second paragraph) is closest in meaning to the word ______.