The founders, （）, were long on exhortation and rhetoric regarding the value of civic education, but they left it to the textbook writers to distill the essence of those values for school children.

单项选择题To paraphrase the noted eighteenth-century scholar, Samuel Johnson, despite all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, it is by the common sense and compassion of readers that are uncorrupted by the prejudices of some opinionated scholars who the characters and situations in medieval and Elizabethan literature, as in any other literature, can best be judged.（）

A. despite
B. that
C. who
D. as

单项选择题In the American family, the husband and wife usually share important decision making. When the children are old enough, they take part （）.

A. also
B. though
C. as well
D. either