阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
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Stagnant(停滞的) scientific education endangers U.S. economic leadership, says a report by leading business and science figures.
Released at a congressional meeting attended by senators(参议员) and Congress members of both parties, the report updates a 2005 science education report that led to moves to double federal research funding.
Nevertheless, the Rising Above the Gathering Storm review finds little improvement in U.S. elementary and secondary technical education since then.
“Our nation’s future has worsened,” concludes the report panel headed by former Lockheed chief Martin Norman Augustine. The report “paints a discouraging future for America if it were to continue on the perilous path it has been following’’:
● U.S. K-12 education in mathematics and science ranks 48th worldwide.
● 49％of U.S. adults don’t know how long
