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A home school is a school in which parents educate their children at home instead of sending them out to a public or private school. Home schooling is legal throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America, Hong Kong, and South Africa. Home schooling is most popular in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Home schooling is legally accepted in all 50 states of the U.S., but each state has its own laws that a family must adhere to. Currently, it is estimated that over one million families school their children at home. Most of these families include a breadwinner and a stay-at-home parent who does most of the teaching, although there are single parent families and double career families.

Home schooling education models range from unschooling to traditional classroom schooling. Unschooling is based on interest-based learning in which the child expresses interest in a particular subject, and the parents take steps to provide the materials for that subject.

    In some places, the home school group shares in hiring a professional teacher to teach a particular subject. The group may also arrange field trips and sports activates with local private schools. These activities are intended to provide social skills for the students.

Home school families take advantage of technology and the Internet to supplement （补充） traditional teaching. Some home school families enroll （注册） their children in an online school or course as a supplement to their own teaching.

Some home school families teach their children through high school graduation. Others teach their children until they feel they are mature（成熟）enough to live independently.

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    In America colleges do recognize a home school diploma （文凭）, but most are more interested in high school transcripts （成绩报告单） and SAT and ACT scores. There are currently over 800 colleges that accept home – schooled graduates including Harvard. Yale, and Stanford.

1．A home school is school where          .

       A．parents provide social skills for their children

       B．children needn’t take any tests

       C．parents teach their children at home

       D．children can go home every day

2．In most of the home school families,          .

       A．one parent goes to work and the other stays at home

       B．one parent is a worker and the other is a teacher

       C．both of the parents stay at home

       D．both of the parents go to work

3．In the education model of unschooling,           .

      A．children are taught in traditional ways

       B．children don’t need any textbooks

       C．special attention is paid to children’s interest

       D．everything is decided by children’s parents

4．We can know from the passage that         .

       A．home schooling is only popular in developed countries

       B．children in a home school have no contacts with other students

       C．a home school diploma is not accepted by colleges in America

       D．some children in a home school also take courses online

5．Famous universities like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford          .

       A．are only interested in accepting public school graduates

       B．also take in students with a home school diploma

       C．never enroll home – schooled graduates

D．also provide home school education

Answer 1

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