Unit 79
Largely for "spiritual reasons," Nancy Manos started home-schooling her children five years ago and has studiously avoided public schools ever since. 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. Manos still wants to handle the basics, but likes that Eagleridge offers the extras, "things I couldn't teach." One doubt, though, lingers in her mind: why would the public school system want to offer home-school families anything?
A big part of the answer is economics. The number of home-schooled kids nationwide has risen to as many as 1.9 million from an estimated 345,000 in 1994, and school districts that get state and local dollars per child are beginning to suffer. In Maricopa County, which includes Mesa, the number of home-schooled kids has more than doubled during that period to 7,526; at about $4,500 a child, that's nearly $34 million a year in lost revenue.
Not everyone's happy with these innovations. Some states have taken the opposite tack. Like about half the states, West Virginia refuses to allow home-schooled kids to play public-school sports. And in Arizona, some complain that their tax dollars are being used to create programs for families who, essentially, eschew participation in public life. "That makes my teeth grit,'' says Daphne Atkeson, whose 10-year-old son attends public school in Paradise Valley. Even some committed home-schoolers question the new programs, given their central irony: they turn home-schoolers into public-school students, says Bob Parsons, president of the Alaska Private and Home Educators Association. "We've lost about one third of our members to those programs. They're so enticing.''
Mesa started Eagleridge four years ago, when it saw how much money it was losing from home-schoolers——and how unprepared some students were when they re-entered the schools. Since it began, the program's enrollment has nearly doubled to 397, and last year the district moved Eagleridge to a strip mall （between a pizza joint and a laser-tag arcade）. Parents typically drop off their kids once a week; because most of the children qualify as quarter-time students, the district collects $911 per child. "It's like getting a taste of what real school is like,'' says 10-year-old Chad Lucas, who's learning computer animation and creative writing.
Other school districts are also experimenting with novel ways to court home schoolers. The town of Galena, Alaska, （pop. 600） has just 178 students. But in 1997, its school administrators figured they could reach beyond their borders. Under the program, the district gives home-schooling families free computers and Internet service for correspondence classes. In return, the district gets $3,100 per student enrolled in the program——$9.6 million a year, which it has used partly for a new vocational school. Such alternatives just might appeal to other districts. Ernest Felty, head of Hardin County schools in southern Illinois, has 10 home-schooled pupils. That may not sound like much——except that he has a staff of 68, and at $4,500 a child, "that's probably a teacher's salary,'' Felty says. With the right robotics or art class, though, he could take the home out of home schooling.
注（1）：本文選自Newsweek，11/06/2000，p62
注（2）：本文習(xí)題命題模仿對象2005年Text 1.
1．In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by
[A]posing a contrast
[B]justifying an assumption
[C]explaining a phenomenon
[D]making a comparison
2．The statement "That makes my teeth grit,''（Line 4, Paragraph 3） implies that
[A]I wanted to eat something.
[B]I was angry and dissatisfied.
[C]I was in favor of what the public school had done.
[D]I wanted not to bring my children to that school.
3．The public school system wants to offer home-school families something, because
[A]it does not want to lose much money from the increasing home-schoolers.
[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
本文采用提出問題——分析問題的模式，指出在家受教育的人對公立學(xué)校造成的經(jīng)濟威脅，以及公立學(xué)校對這一現(xiàn)象的不同反應(yīng)和做法。文中第一段以在家受教育的人為例，來說明教育中存在的在家受教育這一現(xiàn)象；第二段分析公立學(xué)校不愿意放棄這些人的主要原因；第三段指出有些州不同的做法；第四段具體指出Eagleridge這一做法的目的以及給在家受教育的人帶來的好處；第五段指出一些公立學(xué)校的成功做法。
詞匯注釋
studiously [5stju:dIEslI ; （?@） 5stu:-]adv.有意地, 故意地
tack[tAk]行動方針；策略
eschew [Is5tFu:]vt.避開, 遠(yuǎn)避
grit [^rIt]v.咬（牙）把（牙齒）緊咬在一起
enticing [In`taIsIN]adj.引誘的, 迷人的
難句突破
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.
主體句式：she was… enrolling her 8-year-old daughter… in sign language and modern dance classes
結(jié)構(gòu)分析：這句話是個簡單句。其中“enroll in”意為“在…方面注冊,報名參加”;Olivia是daughter的同位語；a program是Eagleridge Enrichment的同位語，過去分詞run和taught做定語來修飾program.
句子譯文：然而上周，她卻急切地給她八歲的女兒奧利維亞報名參加在Eagleridge Enrichment舉辦的手語課和現(xiàn)代舞蹈課的學(xué)習(xí)。
題目分析
1． 答案為C，屬事實細(xì)節(jié)題。文中第一段以Nancy Manos為例，來說明現(xiàn)在越來越多的人
傾向于在家受教育這一現(xiàn)象。
2． 答案為B，屬推理判斷題。第三段第一句話“Not everyone's happy with these innovations.”
是本段的主題句，意為“并不是所有人都認(rèn)同這些舉措?！焙竺媾e出的例子用以說明這一論點。其中“refuse”和“complain”都用來表示這些人的態(tài)度和反應(yīng)。又給出的這個例子也是這一用意，故猜出此意。
3．答案為A,屬事實細(xì)節(jié)題。第一段后一句提出問題“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． 答案為C，屬推理判斷題。第二段的主題句是“A big part of the answer is economics.”然
后作者給出了一系列的數(shù)據(jù)來使這一論點更有可信性。
5． 答案為B，屬推理判斷題。第五段第一句話“Other school districts are also experimenting
with novel ways to court home schoolers.“是本段的主題句。后面舉出的例子是為了更好的說明這一點，同時也說明了這一做法給它們帶來的好處。
參考譯文
主要是由于“精神方面的原因”，南希?馬諾斯五年前開始自己在家里教育孩子，并從此以后有意避開公立學(xué)校。然而上周，她卻急切地給她八歲的女兒奧利維亞報名參加在Eagleridge Enrichment舉辦的手語課和現(xiàn)代舞蹈課的學(xué)習(xí)。Eagleridge Enrichment項目是由亞利桑那州的梅薩公立學(xué)校舉辦的，并由學(xué)區(qū)的老師授課。馬諾斯還想繼續(xù)教基礎(chǔ)課，但她希望Eagleridge教授其余的“我教不了的東西”。但是她的腦海里一直有一個疑問：為什么公立學(xué)校愿意為進行家教的家庭提供他們所需要的一切呢？
答案的主要部分是經(jīng)濟方面的原因。全國在家受教育的孩子的數(shù)量已經(jīng)從1994年估計的34.5千人上升到了190萬人。那些靠按孩子人數(shù)從州政府和當(dāng)?shù)卣@得財政支持的學(xué)區(qū)開始受到損害。在梅薩所在的馬利柯帕縣，在家受教育孩子的數(shù)量在這期間增長了兩倍，達(dá)到了7,526人。按一個孩子4,500美元計算，這意味著一年所損失的收入將達(dá)到近3.4億美元。
并不是每個人都對這些舉措感到高興。有些州采取了與之相反的策略。同占半數(shù)的其它州的做法一樣，西弗吉尼亞拒絕讓在家受教育的孩子參加公立學(xué)校的運動比賽。在亞利桑那州，有人抱怨他們繳納的稅金被用來設(shè)立一些專門為那些實際上逃避社會生活的家庭參加的項目?！斑@真使我恨得咬牙切齒?！边_(dá)夫妮?阿特基森這樣說。他十歲的兒子在帕拉代斯瓦利公立學(xué)校上學(xué)。甚至那些堅持在家接受教育的人也對此新計劃嗤之以鼻，表示疑問：這些項目旨在把受家庭教育的人變成公立學(xué)校的學(xué)生，阿拉斯加個人和家庭教育者協(xié)會會長鮑勃?帕森斯說，“這些計劃已挖走了我們?nèi)种坏臅T。這些計劃實在是太誘人了?！?BR> 四年前，當(dāng)意識到從那些在家接受教育的人身上損失了那么多的錢，并且當(dāng)這些人重新入學(xué)時他們又是那么的毫無準(zhǔn)備，梅薩便率先發(fā)起了Eagleridge項目。從它成立之日起，前來注冊的人數(shù)幾乎翻了一番，達(dá)到397人。去年，學(xué)區(qū)將Eagleridge項目遷移到一家商鋪密集的商業(yè)廣場（在一家比薩餅店與一個帶巨大標(biāo)記的拱廊之間）。孩子的父母一般每周只需送。由于大多數(shù)孩子只取得四分之一學(xué)生的資格，所以學(xué)區(qū)對每個孩子只收911美元的學(xué)費?！斑@只是讓你體會一下去真正的學(xué)校上學(xué)是什么滋味。”十歲的查德?盧卡斯這樣說道。他正在學(xué)習(xí)電腦動畫制作和寫作。
其它學(xué)區(qū)也在嘗試新辦法來獲取這些在家接受教育人的支持。阿拉斯加州的加利納鎮(zhèn)（人口600）只有178名學(xué)生。但是在1997年，學(xué)校負(fù)責(zé)人認(rèn)為他們可以（使學(xué)生人數(shù)）超過這個數(shù)。按照學(xué)校計劃，學(xué)區(qū)為在家從事家庭教育的家庭免費提供函授課程所用的電腦和互連網(wǎng)業(yè)務(wù)。作為回報，學(xué)區(qū)在這個項目中對每個注冊的學(xué)生收費3,100美元——一年合計960萬。學(xué)區(qū)把其中的一部分資金用來再建一所新的職業(yè)學(xué)校。這樣的方案對其他學(xué)區(qū)還是很有吸引力的。歐內(nèi)斯特?費爾提是伊利諾斯州南部哈丁縣縣屬學(xué)校的負(fù)責(zé)人。他負(fù)責(zé)10個在家接受教育的小學(xué)生。這聽起來沒什么大不了的——除了他有68位員工和每個學(xué)生收取4,500美元的學(xué)費以外。費爾提說：“那差不多相當(dāng)于一個老師的工資”。憑借合適的機器人技術(shù)或美術(shù)課，他能夠讓那些在家接受教育的人不在家上課了。
Largely for "spiritual reasons," Nancy Manos started home-schooling her children five years ago and has studiously avoided public schools ever since. 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. Manos still wants to handle the basics, but likes that Eagleridge offers the extras, "things I couldn't teach." One doubt, though, lingers in her mind: why would the public school system want to offer home-school families anything?
A big part of the answer is economics. The number of home-schooled kids nationwide has risen to as many as 1.9 million from an estimated 345,000 in 1994, and school districts that get state and local dollars per child are beginning to suffer. In Maricopa County, which includes Mesa, the number of home-schooled kids has more than doubled during that period to 7,526; at about $4,500 a child, that's nearly $34 million a year in lost revenue.
Not everyone's happy with these innovations. Some states have taken the opposite tack. Like about half the states, West Virginia refuses to allow home-schooled kids to play public-school sports. And in Arizona, some complain that their tax dollars are being used to create programs for families who, essentially, eschew participation in public life. "That makes my teeth grit,'' says Daphne Atkeson, whose 10-year-old son attends public school in Paradise Valley. Even some committed home-schoolers question the new programs, given their central irony: they turn home-schoolers into public-school students, says Bob Parsons, president of the Alaska Private and Home Educators Association. "We've lost about one third of our members to those programs. They're so enticing.''
Mesa started Eagleridge four years ago, when it saw how much money it was losing from home-schoolers——and how unprepared some students were when they re-entered the schools. Since it began, the program's enrollment has nearly doubled to 397, and last year the district moved Eagleridge to a strip mall （between a pizza joint and a laser-tag arcade）. Parents typically drop off their kids once a week; because most of the children qualify as quarter-time students, the district collects $911 per child. "It's like getting a taste of what real school is like,'' says 10-year-old Chad Lucas, who's learning computer animation and creative writing.
Other school districts are also experimenting with novel ways to court home schoolers. The town of Galena, Alaska, （pop. 600） has just 178 students. But in 1997, its school administrators figured they could reach beyond their borders. Under the program, the district gives home-schooling families free computers and Internet service for correspondence classes. In return, the district gets $3,100 per student enrolled in the program——$9.6 million a year, which it has used partly for a new vocational school. Such alternatives just might appeal to other districts. Ernest Felty, head of Hardin County schools in southern Illinois, has 10 home-schooled pupils. That may not sound like much——except that he has a staff of 68, and at $4,500 a child, "that's probably a teacher's salary,'' Felty says. With the right robotics or art class, though, he could take the home out of home schooling.
注（1）：本文選自Newsweek，11/06/2000，p62
注（2）：本文習(xí)題命題模仿對象2005年Text 1.
1．In the opening paragraph, the author introduces his topic by
[A]posing a contrast
[B]justifying an assumption
[C]explaining a phenomenon
[D]making a comparison
2．The statement "That makes my teeth grit,''（Line 4, Paragraph 3） implies that
[A]I wanted to eat something.
[B]I was angry and dissatisfied.
[C]I was in favor of what the public school had done.
[D]I wanted not to bring my children to that school.
3．The public school system wants to offer home-school families something, because
[A]it does not want to lose much money from the increasing home-schoolers.
[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
本文采用提出問題——分析問題的模式，指出在家受教育的人對公立學(xué)校造成的經(jīng)濟威脅，以及公立學(xué)校對這一現(xiàn)象的不同反應(yīng)和做法。文中第一段以在家受教育的人為例，來說明教育中存在的在家受教育這一現(xiàn)象；第二段分析公立學(xué)校不愿意放棄這些人的主要原因；第三段指出有些州不同的做法；第四段具體指出Eagleridge這一做法的目的以及給在家受教育的人帶來的好處；第五段指出一些公立學(xué)校的成功做法。
詞匯注釋
studiously [5stju:dIEslI ; （?@） 5stu:-]adv.有意地, 故意地
tack[tAk]行動方針；策略
eschew [Is5tFu:]vt.避開, 遠(yuǎn)避
grit [^rIt]v.咬（牙）把（牙齒）緊咬在一起
enticing [In`taIsIN]adj.引誘的, 迷人的
難句突破
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.
主體句式：she was… enrolling her 8-year-old daughter… in sign language and modern dance classes
結(jié)構(gòu)分析：這句話是個簡單句。其中“enroll in”意為“在…方面注冊,報名參加”;Olivia是daughter的同位語；a program是Eagleridge Enrichment的同位語，過去分詞run和taught做定語來修飾program.
句子譯文：然而上周，她卻急切地給她八歲的女兒奧利維亞報名參加在Eagleridge Enrichment舉辦的手語課和現(xiàn)代舞蹈課的學(xué)習(xí)。
題目分析
1． 答案為C，屬事實細(xì)節(jié)題。文中第一段以Nancy Manos為例，來說明現(xiàn)在越來越多的人
傾向于在家受教育這一現(xiàn)象。
2． 答案為B，屬推理判斷題。第三段第一句話“Not everyone's happy with these innovations.”
是本段的主題句，意為“并不是所有人都認(rèn)同這些舉措?！焙竺媾e出的例子用以說明這一論點。其中“refuse”和“complain”都用來表示這些人的態(tài)度和反應(yīng)。又給出的這個例子也是這一用意，故猜出此意。
3．答案為A,屬事實細(xì)節(jié)題。第一段后一句提出問題“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． 答案為C，屬推理判斷題。第二段的主題句是“A big part of the answer is economics.”然
后作者給出了一系列的數(shù)據(jù)來使這一論點更有可信性。
5． 答案為B，屬推理判斷題。第五段第一句話“Other school districts are also experimenting
with novel ways to court home schoolers.“是本段的主題句。后面舉出的例子是為了更好的說明這一點，同時也說明了這一做法給它們帶來的好處。
參考譯文
主要是由于“精神方面的原因”，南希?馬諾斯五年前開始自己在家里教育孩子，并從此以后有意避開公立學(xué)校。然而上周，她卻急切地給她八歲的女兒奧利維亞報名參加在Eagleridge Enrichment舉辦的手語課和現(xiàn)代舞蹈課的學(xué)習(xí)。Eagleridge Enrichment項目是由亞利桑那州的梅薩公立學(xué)校舉辦的，并由學(xué)區(qū)的老師授課。馬諾斯還想繼續(xù)教基礎(chǔ)課，但她希望Eagleridge教授其余的“我教不了的東西”。但是她的腦海里一直有一個疑問：為什么公立學(xué)校愿意為進行家教的家庭提供他們所需要的一切呢？
答案的主要部分是經(jīng)濟方面的原因。全國在家受教育的孩子的數(shù)量已經(jīng)從1994年估計的34.5千人上升到了190萬人。那些靠按孩子人數(shù)從州政府和當(dāng)?shù)卣@得財政支持的學(xué)區(qū)開始受到損害。在梅薩所在的馬利柯帕縣，在家受教育孩子的數(shù)量在這期間增長了兩倍，達(dá)到了7,526人。按一個孩子4,500美元計算，這意味著一年所損失的收入將達(dá)到近3.4億美元。
并不是每個人都對這些舉措感到高興。有些州采取了與之相反的策略。同占半數(shù)的其它州的做法一樣，西弗吉尼亞拒絕讓在家受教育的孩子參加公立學(xué)校的運動比賽。在亞利桑那州，有人抱怨他們繳納的稅金被用來設(shè)立一些專門為那些實際上逃避社會生活的家庭參加的項目?！斑@真使我恨得咬牙切齒?！边_(dá)夫妮?阿特基森這樣說。他十歲的兒子在帕拉代斯瓦利公立學(xué)校上學(xué)。甚至那些堅持在家接受教育的人也對此新計劃嗤之以鼻，表示疑問：這些項目旨在把受家庭教育的人變成公立學(xué)校的學(xué)生，阿拉斯加個人和家庭教育者協(xié)會會長鮑勃?帕森斯說，“這些計劃已挖走了我們?nèi)种坏臅T。這些計劃實在是太誘人了?！?BR> 四年前，當(dāng)意識到從那些在家接受教育的人身上損失了那么多的錢，并且當(dāng)這些人重新入學(xué)時他們又是那么的毫無準(zhǔn)備，梅薩便率先發(fā)起了Eagleridge項目。從它成立之日起，前來注冊的人數(shù)幾乎翻了一番，達(dá)到397人。去年，學(xué)區(qū)將Eagleridge項目遷移到一家商鋪密集的商業(yè)廣場（在一家比薩餅店與一個帶巨大標(biāo)記的拱廊之間）。孩子的父母一般每周只需送。由于大多數(shù)孩子只取得四分之一學(xué)生的資格，所以學(xué)區(qū)對每個孩子只收911美元的學(xué)費?！斑@只是讓你體會一下去真正的學(xué)校上學(xué)是什么滋味。”十歲的查德?盧卡斯這樣說道。他正在學(xué)習(xí)電腦動畫制作和寫作。
其它學(xué)區(qū)也在嘗試新辦法來獲取這些在家接受教育人的支持。阿拉斯加州的加利納鎮(zhèn)（人口600）只有178名學(xué)生。但是在1997年，學(xué)校負(fù)責(zé)人認(rèn)為他們可以（使學(xué)生人數(shù)）超過這個數(shù)。按照學(xué)校計劃，學(xué)區(qū)為在家從事家庭教育的家庭免費提供函授課程所用的電腦和互連網(wǎng)業(yè)務(wù)。作為回報，學(xué)區(qū)在這個項目中對每個注冊的學(xué)生收費3,100美元——一年合計960萬。學(xué)區(qū)把其中的一部分資金用來再建一所新的職業(yè)學(xué)校。這樣的方案對其他學(xué)區(qū)還是很有吸引力的。歐內(nèi)斯特?費爾提是伊利諾斯州南部哈丁縣縣屬學(xué)校的負(fù)責(zé)人。他負(fù)責(zé)10個在家接受教育的小學(xué)生。這聽起來沒什么大不了的——除了他有68位員工和每個學(xué)生收取4,500美元的學(xué)費以外。費爾提說：“那差不多相當(dāng)于一個老師的工資”。憑借合適的機器人技術(shù)或美術(shù)課，他能夠讓那些在家接受教育的人不在家上課了。