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More than one million children in the United States do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home.
They are taught by adults, like tutors (家庭教师). 1 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.
They also say that some home-schooled children do not get a good education. 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 child
ren. 4
Home-schooling expert Linda Dobson says many people have helped the movement grow. She says
some parents began teaching their children at home after changes in tax laws forced some private religious schools to close. That happened in the
1980s. And, most recently, 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. So a number of parents began home-schooling.
B. They are mainly rich people.
C. However, all fifty American states and the District of Columbia permit home-schooling.
D. She says these include rich people and poor people.
D. Home-schooling is not accepted by all the people.
E. Parents choose home-schooling for several reasons.
F. Most often, their parents are their teachers.
More than one million children in the United States do not go to school. Instead, they learn at home.
They are taught by adults, like tutors (家庭教师). 1 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.
They also say that some home-schooled children do not get a good education. 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 child
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Home-schooling expert Linda Dobson says many people have helped the movement grow. She says
some parents began teaching their children at home after changes in tax laws forced some private religious schools to close. That happened in the
![](http://thumb2018.1010pic.com/pic1/upload/papers/g03/20121012/20121012154350845143.png)
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. So a number of parents began home-schooling.
B. They are mainly rich people.
C. However, all fifty American states and the District of Columbia permit home-schooling.
D. She says these include rich people and poor people.
D. Home-schooling is not accepted by all the people.
E. Parents choose home-schooling for several reasons.
F. Most often, their parents are their teachers.
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land the best job in the world; others writes to all sorts of places, and never seem to get a reply at all,and
then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the
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thinking that he might one day sail one of them.One day, on his usual wandering, he heard the captain of
a ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick. Without stopping to
think, the young man offered to take his place. 3
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man had gone home to ponder(考虑) his decision for a week, he might have missed his chance. It is one
thing to be offered an opportunity. 4
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company to which you are applying. 5 And within a year this person had become general manager of
the company.
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faults.
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