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4.When Carla Fisher and her husband announced plans to travel the globe with their young daughters for a year,some friends called them crazy.Seven years later,with wonderful memories and a book documenting their world travel,the Fishers now seem like global trailblazers (先驱者).
"It's really encouraging to hear that many other people want to educate their kids in that manner,"said Fisher.
Some parents are trying to raise knowledgeable and open-minded"world citizens".Others want to give their children the skills they'll need to compete globally.
"There is a huge amount of interest in spending time abroad at all stages of life and increasingly,as a family with children,"said Maya Frost,author of"The New Global Student…".She knows American families in every corner of the globe who have made that choice.
"There's so much more to education than school,"said Tessa Hill,who recently returned to her Houston-area home,after driving her family across North and Central America and Europe in a motor home for 13months."World travel is an education in people,cultures,language,travel skills,street smarts and in how lucky we are to live in the United States."
When Hill and her husband began considering extended global travel,their middle child,Charles,13,was surprised."My first reaction was‘well,are we really going to do this?'"Charles said."But it did sound like great fun."
Charles said missing his friends was the hardest part.He stayed in touch via e-mail and made some new friends along the way,playing soccer with kids in France and learning about rugby from youths in Ireland.
"I'd definitely recommend this to other kids,"Charles said."It was such a great opportunity to see different countries and learn geography a different way."
To make re-entry smoother,most school officials prefer that families work out an educational plan before they leave town.
"It sounds out-of-date,but it really opens up your mind and your eyes to the world,"said Robbin Goodman,17,a senior student who spent his junior year skateboarding across Beijing,China,when he wasn't studying Chinese history and other core subjects.
Had he not already taken a school-sponsored spring break trip with his mom to China in 2007,Robbin said he probably would not have been able to convince his parents to let him go alone for a year."I knew I would learn Chinese and all that,but my goal was to have a great time,"Robbin said.
"The biggest problem for those seriously considering going abroad is dealing with those who are against the idea,"said Frost.
"They gain the ability to take risks and to have confidence in themselves,"said Liz Pearlstein,founder of a global education consulting firm."When we came home from London,my daughter,who had been painfully shy before we left,said‘Mom,now I know there's nothing I can't do.'"
No one knows exactly how many American families are choosing the global education path,
but global education consultants say a growing number of parents are traveling for a year or more with their children.
Title:A real global(71)education:traveling abroad with kids for a year | |
Travelers'experiences and feelings | |
Carla Fisher | ●Courage is needed to take the(72)global/world travel for there are different voices. ●It is encouraging to hear more parents make such a similar (73)decision/choice/plan. |
Tessa Hill and Charles | ●World travel can help people learn more about cultures,languages and travel skills,etc. ●Charles made new friends along his way and (74)e-mailed his friends back home. |
Robbin Goodman | ●One-year (75)stay/study in China alone can serve the purpose of having a good time. |
Liz Pearlstein | ●World travel (76)enables kids to take risks and builds up confidence in themselves. |
Opinions and suggestions | |
Maya Frost | ●There is an (77)increasing number of family traveling abroad with kids.Parents should take it into consideration how to deal with the opposite idea. |
School officials | ●Parents had better help kids work out educational plans to make it (78)smoother/easier for them to return to school. |
(79)Conclusion | |
Generally,more families in the USA(80)plan/choose/tendto travel abroad with kids for a year or more. |
分析 本文主要讲述现在越来越多的家庭去外国旅游,通过旅游教育孩子.
解答 71.education 72.global/world 73.decision/choice/plan
74.e-mailed 75.stay/study 76.enables 77.increasing
78.smoother/easier 79.Conclusion 80.plan/choose/tend
71.education 根据文章第六段World travel is an education in people,cultures,language,travel skills,street smarts and in how lucky we are to live in the United States."可知世界旅游在很多方面教育人们:文化,语言,旅游技巧等.
72.global/world 根据文章第一段When Carla Fisher and her husband announced plans to travel the globe with their young daughters for a year,some friends called them crazy.可知Carla Fisher 夫妇带女儿去全球循环旅游让人们感觉很惊讶.
73.decision/choice/plan根据文章第三段"It's really encouraging to hear that many other people want to educate their kids in that manner,"said Fisher可知听到很多其他人决定用这种方式去教育孩子,很令人鼓舞.
74.e-mailed 根据文章第八段He stayed in touch via e-mail and made some new friends along the way他通过email告诉他回家.
75.stay/study 根据文章倒数第六段Robbin said he probably would not have been able to convince his parents to let him go alone for a year."I knew I would learn Chinese and all that,but my goal was to have a great time,可知在中国待一年和学习可以让他玩的很开心.
76.enables根据文章倒数第三段They gain the ability to take risks and to have confidence in themselves,"国外旅行可以让他们获得冒险的能力和自信心.enable sb to do 使某人能做某事.
77.increasing根据文章最后一段global education consultants say a growing number of parents are traveling for a year or more with their children.可知越来越多的父母带孩子去国外旅游一年或多年.growing 的意思和increasing一样.
78.smoother/easier根据文章To make re-entry smoother,most school officials prefer that families work out an educational plan before they leave town.可知让重新入学更顺利,学校官员认为家庭应该在旅游之前制定学习计划.
79.Conclusion 根据文章最后一段 global education consultants say a growing number of parents are traveling for a year or more with their children.可知经过这些调查可以得出结论:越来越多的父母带孩子去国外旅游一年或多年.
80.plan/choose/tend根据文章最后一段 global education consultants say a growing number of parents are traveling for a year or more with their children.可知经过这些调查可以得出结论:越来越多的父母带孩子去国外旅游一年或多年.计划去国外旅游,因此填plan/choose/tend
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Parents in low-income countries fail to invest(投资)in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family:girls grow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children.Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy (预言) becomes self-fulfilling,trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.
An educated mother,on the other hand,has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices.She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children,ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance.The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls,as well as of boys,will be educated and healthy.
Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits.But it has enormous economic advantages as well.Most obviously,there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers.Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling.Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments,but they are just the beginning.Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices,including family planning.
Topic:The significance of female (76)educationin developing countries
Opinion | Educating girls in more(77)beneficial/rewarded/valuablethan any other investment. | |
Families | From low-income families | From educated mothers'families |
Attitudes | Girls are of less(78)value/importance/significancethan boys. | Development should be for all(79)children. |
(80)Practices/Measures | There is(81)no/littleinvests ment in daughters. Girls are made to may at home,(82)doinghousework. | Girls and boys have(83)fair/equal/samechances. |
Significance | Educating girls(84)contributes/leadsto social benefits,conceit advantages and health practices,including faruly planning. | |
(85)Conclusion | Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. |
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