[B]home-schoolers have some difficulty in getting some particular knowledge.
[C]home-schoolers are eager to have a taste of what a real school is like.
[D]it has the responsibility to help the home-schoolers.
4. The statistics in Paragraph two helps us draw a conclusion that
[A]economics is greatly influenced by so many home-schoolers.
[B]the number of the home-schoolers is steadily increasing.
[C]it is a great loss for the public school system to have so many home-schoolers.
[D]home-schooling has an incomparable advantage over the public school system.
5. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
[A]The tuition the home schoolers have to pay for the public school is very high.
[B]Public school system gains much profit from the home schoolers.
[C]Home schoolers do not want to receive education at home any more.
[D]Public school system tries to attract the home schoolers back to school.
答案:CBACB
篇章剖析
本文采用提出问题——分析问题的模式,指出在家受教育的人对公立学校造成的经济威胁,以及公立学校对这一现象的不同反应和做法。文中第一段以在家受教育的人为例,来说明教育中存在的在家受教育这一现象;第二段分析公立学校不愿意放弃这些人的主要原因;第三段指出有些州不同的做法;第四段具体指出Eagleridge这一做法的目的以及给在家受教育的人带来的好处;第五段指出一些公立学校的成功做法。
词汇注释
studiously [5stju:dIEslI ; (?@) 5stu:-]adv.有意地, 故意地
tack[tAk]行动方针;策略
eschew [Is5tFu:]vt.避开, 远避
grit [^rIt]v.咬(牙)把(牙齿)紧咬在一起
enticing [In`taIsIN]adj.引诱的, 迷人的
难句突破
1.Yet last week, she was enthusiastically enrolling her 8-year-old daughter, Olivia, in sign language and modern dance classes at Eagleridge Enrichment--a program run by the Mesa, Ariz., public schools and taught by district teachers.
主体句式:she was… enrolling her 8-year-old daughter… in sign language and modern dance classes
结构分析:这句话是个简单句。其中“enroll in”意为“在…方面注册,报名参加”;Olivia是daughter的同位语;a program是Eagleridge Enrichment的同位语,过去分词run和taught做定语来修饰program。
句子译文:然而上周,她却急切地给她八岁的女儿奥利维亚报名参加在Eagleridge Enrichment举办的手语课和现代舞蹈课的学习。
题目分析
1.答案为C,属事实细节题。文中第一段以Nancy Manos为例,来说明现在越来越多的人倾向于在家受教育这一现象。
2.答案为B,属推理判断题。第三段第一句话“Not everyone's happy with these innovations.”是本段的主题句,意为“并不是所有人都认同这些举措。”后面举出的例子用以说明这一论点。其中“refuse”和“complain”都用来表示这些人的态度和反应。又给出的这个例子也是这一用意,故猜出此意。
3.答案为A,属事实细节题。第一段最后一句提出问题“why would the public school system want to offer home-school families anything?”在第二段第一句作者做出了回答:“A big part of the answer is economics.”
4.答案为C,属推理判断题。第二段的主题句是“A big part of the answer is economics.”然后作者给出了一系列的数据来使这一论点更有可信性。
5.答案为B,属推理判断题。第五段第一句话“Other school districts are also experimenting with novel ways to court home schoolers.”是本段的主题句。后面举出的例子是为了更好的说明这一点,同时也说明了这一做法给它们带来的好处。
参考译文
主要是由于“精神方面的原因”,南希•马诺斯五年前开始自己在家里教育孩子,并从此以后有意避开公立学校。然而上周,她却急切地给她八岁的女儿奥利维亚报名参加在Eagleridge Enrichment举办的手语课和现代舞蹈课的学习。Eagleridge Enrichment项目是由亚利桑那州的梅萨公立学校举办的,并由学区的老师授课。马诺斯还想继续教基础课,但她希望Eagleridge教授其余的“我教不了的东西”。但是她的脑海里一直有一个疑问:为什么公立学校愿意为进行家教的家庭提供他们所需要的一切呢?
答案的主要部分是经济方面的原因。全国在家受教育的孩子的数量已经从1994年估计的34.5千人上升到了190万人。那些靠按孩子人数从州政府和当地政府获得财政支持的学区开始受到损害。在梅萨所在的马利柯帕县,在家受教育孩子的数量在这期间增长了两倍,达到了7,526人。按一个孩子4,500美元计算,这意味着一年所损失的收入将达到近3.4亿美元。
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