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根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项.选项中有两项为多余选项.

1. Instead, they learn at home. They are taught by adults, more often ,their parents are their teachers. Educational companies, libraries and the Internet provide many families with teaching material.

2. Some choose it because of their religious beliefs. Others say it provides more time for the family to be together. They say home offers a better place for learning. Some parents believe home-schooling avoids problems of traditional schools. These include classes that have too many students. Critics, however, say children need to attend school with other children.

3. Some states(州)do not require much preparation made by parents or testing of children. Other states have more requirements for home-schooling. Home-schooling in the United States began when the country was established. In farm areas, people often lived far from a school. Widespread home-schooling took place until about the middle of the 19th century. Then, in 1852, the state of Massachusetts passed the first law requiring children to attend school.

Over the years, the American public education system strengthened and grew. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, some Americans believed that traditional education was not helping their children. 4.

Home-schooling expert Linda Dobson says many people have helped the movement grow. She says many kinds of people have joined the movement. 5. They represent many races, religions and political beliefs. Ms. Dobson says the number of home-schooled children has increased by an estimated fifteen to twenty percent each year during the last fifteen years.

A. Parents choose home-schooling for several reasons.

B. Home-schooling is not accepted by all the people.

C. More than one million children in the United States do not go to school.

D. So a number of parents began home-schooling.

E. All fifty American states and the District of Columbia permit home-schooling.

F. She says these include rich people and poor people.

G. They are mainly rich people.

Answer 1