2015考研英语阅读理解精读P18—医学 Passage 18(Doctor-assisted Suicide：Is It Ever an Option?) Should doctor-assisted suicide ever be a legal option? It involves the extreme measure of taking the life of a terminally ill patient when the patient is in extreme pain and the chances for recovery appear to be none.Those who argue against assisted suicide do so by considering the roles of the patient，the doctor，and nature in these situations. Should the patient take an active role in assisted suicide? When a patient is terminally ill and in great pain，those who oppose assisted suicide say that it should not be up to that patient to decide what his or her fate will be.There are greater powers at work that determine when a person dies，for example，nature.Neither science nor personal preference should take precedence over these larger forces. What role should the doctor have? Doctors，when taking the Hippocratic oath，swear to preserve life at all costs，and it is their ethical and legal duty to follow both the spirit and the letter of this oath.It is their responsibilities to heal the sick，and in the cases when healing is not possible，then the doctor is obliged to make the dying person comfortable.Doctors are trained never to hasten death.Those who oppose assisted suicide believe that doctors who do help terminally ill patients die are committing a crime，and they should be dealt with accordingly.Doctors are also，by virtue of their humanness，capable of making mistakes.Doctors could quite possibly say，for instance，that a cancer patient was terminal，and then the illness could later turn out not to be so serious.There is always an element of doubt concerning the future outcome of human affairs. The third perspective to consider when thinking about assisted suicide is the role of nature.Life is precious.Many people believe that it is not up to human beings to decide when to end their own or another’s life.Only nature determines when it is the right time for a person to die.To assist someone in suicide is not only to break criminal laws，but to break divine 1aws as well. These general concerns of those who oppose assisted suicide are valid in certain contexts of the assisted suicide question.For instance，patients cannot always be certain of their medical conditions.Pain clouds judgment，and so the patient should not be the sole arbiter of her or his own destiny.Patients do not usually choose the course of their medical treatment，so they shouldn’t be held completely responsible for decisions related to it.Doctors are also fallible，and it is understandable that they would not want to make the final decision about when death should occur.Since doctors are trained to prolong life，they usually do not elect to take it by prescribing assisted suicide. I believe that blindly opposing assisted suicide does no one a service.If someone is dying of
高一英语阅读理解满分攻略 阅读理解概述： 阅读理解全面考查考生的理解、分析、比较、概括和解决问题的能力。阅读理解的语篇选材覆盖面广，保持了题材、体裁的多样性。选材语言地道，文体特征鲜明。试题难易适当，有合理的梯度，将细节判断、理解判断和推理判断融会贯通。 阅读理解举足轻重，占用时间长，分值大，失分多。高考150满分，阅读理解占40分。总共5篇阅读，每篇阅读设题数量不一，共20道题，每题2分。如何能够在35分钟内读完长达2000-2200词的五篇文章，并且能够正确回答所有的问题，从而得到满意的分数是一个关键却也较难的问题。要想解决这个问题就必须下决心抓阅读，提高阅读能力和阅读理解题的应试能力。 距离期中考试还剩几天如何突击复习得高分： 今天距离北京市期中考试还有一个多星期，我们就学生们提出的几个关于阅读理解的问题做一个解答，希望对高一的学生有些帮助。 1、如何应对高中英语阅读中的长难句？ 影响阅读速度，降低了解题的信心。 近年来，英语阅读解题加强了对长，难句的考察，阅读材料中出现了不少省略句，复合句和特长句，给正确理解全文造成了很大困难。实际上，一般情况下，不在长难句中设题。文章难，题不难。一旦考到长，难句，大家也不要心慌。 应对长难句的解题技巧： 1利用还原法恢复句型的原貌。例如：Betty shrugs. Talk? We're friends.(2001全国，C) 该句为省略句，根据上文Harold对妻子长时间跟女友谈话而感到纳闷的情况，该剧课补充还原为：Betty shrugs. Why are we talking so long? We're friends. 2 利用结构引导词进行结构和功能分析及单句重拍，准确理解复合句。 3 成分分析法。这是较常用的方法。以上两种方法较难，这里暂不做举例说明。 2、高中期中考试考前如何进行实战操练才最有效： 临考一周： 做到每天五篇，养成考场习惯。每天保证阅读量，最好是一天一套5篇阅读。并根据自己的情况，设定时间完成，逐渐缩短阅读时间。可以按照，50分钟，45分钟，40分钟，35分钟的规律递减。摸索阅读速度，确定阅读方法，保持做题惯性。考前模拟，创造黑马。 临考一天： 完成五篇一天任务，总结一周阅读技巧。当你拿出一周的35篇阅读文章时，相信你的内心一定是充满了喜悦感，成就感。好!保持这种感觉！你便可突出重围！、
1. The latest was a panel from the National Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the White House, to tell us that the Earth’s atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely man-made. (2005. 阅读. Text 2) 【译文】最近的行动是由白宫召集了一批 来自国家科学院的专家团，他们告诉我 们，地球气候毫无疑问正在变暖，而这个问题主要是人为造成的。【析句】句子的主干是The latest was a panel from the National Academy of Sciences to tell us that...and that...。主系表容易辨认，to tell us作目的状语，两个并列的that引导tell的宾语从句。令整个 句子略显复杂的是插入语enlisted by the White House，割裂了这句话的整体性。 2. But science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that our nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions. (2005. 阅读. Text 2) 【译文】但是科学确实为我们的未来提供了最好的指导，关键是我们的国家和整个的世界在做重要决策时，应该以科学能够提供的关于人类现在的行为对未来影响最好的判断作为依据。【析句】首先，句子的主干science does provide us...future and it is critical...。and连接两个并列的句子，前句是个简单句，容易理解；后句中，it是形式主语，真正的主语是后面的that从句，因为从句很长，若放在句首，句子则显得头重脚轻。that主语从句中，our nation and the world 是主语，base是谓语，important policies是宾语，on the best judgments 是宾语补足语，而judgments后有that引导的定语从句。注意，concerning the futrue...actions中的concerning此处是介词，意
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阅读40分高分研究(较长但务必认真读完收获一定良多以后做到阅读就不怕) 本人花万元报名参加北京一内部考研辅导班，该辅导班考前会发布押题，押题命中率百分之90左右，去年该培训班考生全部高分过线。如果需要发布的押题可以联系我QQ673351717免费索取来者不拒一一发布希望大家都能顺利高分通过研考 考研与高考、各类出国考试（TOEFL、GRE、GMA T等）被认为是改变中国学生人生命运的三大考试。英语一直是筛选学生人选硕士研究生的最权威尺度，考研外语录取最低分数线（50~60分）的通过率被严格地控制在15~18%，一个的命运与其外语能力，在这里更确切地说是与考研英语能力（注意，有人的外语水平不低，但考研英语成绩却不理想）息息相关。阅读理解与考研英语 长期以来考研英语阅读理解部分的教与学总是处于一种尴尬状态之中。 一方面，人人知道它的重要性：阅读理解占研究生入学考试英语总分的50%，每道阅读题分值为2分，往往因一念之差，选错一题，就会痛失2分，需要提醒大家注意的是，有的时候半分就能决定成败。 站在更深的层次，考研英语虽然从形式上分为词汇、语法、改错、完形填空、阅读理解、翻译和作文等几部分，但归根结底都是在变相地考阅读理解。所谓完形填空无非是把阅读理解的文章去掉若干个词，要求您在阅读理解的基础上补缺；翻译就是把阅读理解文章选出几句话来，同样需要您在阅读理解的前提下，用通顺甚至是华丽的汉语表达一下而已；词汇和语法都要求在对题干句阅读理解的基础上，再结合词汇及语法的具体特点才能作出最佳选择，而我们许多同学做词汇、语法题目时，非常重视词汇和语法的自身特点，却忽视了对于题干句语义的理解，这是非常简单而又常见的错误，当然也是这类题目准确率不高的一个主要原因；阅读理解不过关，作文也受到直接影响。阅读是别人写的文章让您读，而作文是自己写文章让别人看，别人写的文章您看不懂，头脑里没有素材、没有模型，自己笔下何来好文章。对于广大考生而言，阅读理解部分完成的好坏关系研究生入学考试的成败，阅读理解过关等于研究生入学考试轻松了一大半。 但另一方面，考生大量背诵篇章，拼命作题，外加分析、总结，经过长期不懈的努力后，结果收效甚微。通常情况下，有很多考生阅读理解分数可以达到20至25分，但超过35分的同学却廖廖无几。 新与旧 我认为一本书的新旧不在于其形式、不在于是否在其封面上打上2000年版或3000年版的标志，而在于其内容，在于其思想是否领先于那个时代，一个伟大思想辉煌时代的到来往往是在这个思想的创造者死后的半个或一个世纪——这就是人类的历史！ 本书力排对着答案讲题、将阅读当成翻译来讲解的传统弊端，从分析应试高手心得出发，精研历年考研阅读理解试题，深入体会和理解真题的题型与思路；充分考虑到中国学生的实际水平和常见错误，针对各类题型为考生提供一套实用操作性很强的技巧和方法，提高考生临场实战能力，为未来的考试做好准备，这是同类书籍中的独家做法！同时也避免了考研讲解传统上的事后明白——“马后炮”的缺陷。要知道看了答案，再查词典，人人都会讲考研。 考生难点分析 根据考生水平的水同，一般存在如下三种问题： *部分考生读不懂文章，对于复杂句尤其是长句、多义词及难词理解有误。这些考生的英语阅读的基本功还有待提高。
考研英语阅读理解精读100篇之经济类
考研英语阅读理解精读100篇之经济类 unit1 unit1 Some of the concerns surrounding Turkey’s application to join the European Union, to be voted on by the EU’s Council of Ministers on December 17th, are economic-in particular, the country’s relative poverty. Its GDP per head is less than a third of the average for the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU. But it is not far off that of one of the ten new members which joined on May 1st 2004 (Latvia), and it is much the same as those of two countries, Bulgaria and Romania, which this week concluded accession talks with the EU that could make them full members on January 1st 2007. Furthermore, the country’s recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, "stunning". GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13.4% higher than a year earlier, a rate of growth that no EU country comes close to matching. Turkey’s inflation rate has just fallen into single figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country reached agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion economic programme that will, according to the IMF’s managing director, Rodrigo Rato, "help Turkey... reduce inflation toward European levels, and enhance the economy’s resilience". Resilienc e has not historically been the country’s economic strong point. As recently as 2001, GDP fell by over 7%. It fell by more than 5% in 1994, and by
语文阅读理解24个满分秘笈 （一）文章开头的作用 1、引起下文，为下文作铺垫（记叙文） 2、开篇点题，提出中心（中心论点） 3、用故事或典故引出论点或论题（说明对象），激起读者阅读兴趣。 （二）文章结尾的作用 1、深化中心，升华感情 2、篇末点题，提出中心或中心论点 3、总结上文，提出倡议，发出号召 （三）一句话或一段话的作用 1、结构上的作用是：总起全文、引起下文、打下伏笔、作铺垫、承上启下（过渡）、前后照应、首尾呼应、总结全文、点题、推动情节发展。 2、语句在表情达意方面的作用：渲染气氛、烘托人物形象（或人物感情）、点明中心（揭示主旨）、突出主题（深化中心）。 ①、充当事实论据，证明前（后）一句话，进而证明中心论点；②充当道理论据，证明前（后）一句话，进而证明中心论点；③说明了前（后）一话（说明事物的特征）（四）常见写作方法、表现手法 联想、想像、象征、比较、对比、衬托、烘托、反衬、欲扬先抑、先抑后扬、以小见大、托物言志、借物喻理、寓理于物、借物喻人、状物抒情、借景抒情、情景交融、借物抒情、借古喻今、运用典故、直接抒情、动静结合、虚实结合、正面描写、侧面描写等。 （五）“这”、“它们”等指代什么 1、一般是往前找，不会超出前三句； 2、找到之后，将找到的内容放在指代词所在句中读一读，看是否适合。 （六）仿句 1、话题。首先，仿句在话题上要与例句保持一致，做到材料紧扣中心，事例典型合理。如例，画线句列举的是“春光里的花”“秋风里的叶”，再依据句末的“永远伴随着你”，可以判定仿句应扣住夏、冬两季的特征来写。 2、句式。仿句句式要与例句相同。句式包括陈述句、疑问句、祈使句、感叹句，主动句、被动句，长句、短句，散句、整句，单句、复句，等等。 3、修辞。仿句时应当运用与例句相同的修辞方法，所以应仔细研读例句所用的辞格，如比喻、排比、对比、拟人、反复、设问、反问、引用等。 4、结构。仿句的成分组合方式、修饰限制语的构成方式，均应与例句保持一致。 5、表达。仿写的句子应做到语言通顺、用词得当、简洁明确，不能出现不合逻辑、牵强附会、浅薄幼稚的说法。 6、色彩。这里“色彩”包括语体色彩和感情色彩。比如例中洋溢着欢快、喜悦的感情，仿句时就不能违背这一点。 7、字数。对于某些仿句题，仿写时还应注意，字数上应与例句完全相当。 （七）语句特色评价 用词准确、严密、生动、形象、深入浅出、通俗易懂、语言简练、简洁明了、言简意赅、富有感染力、节奏感强、委婉含蓄、意味深长、发人深省、寓意深刻、引发阅读兴趣、说理透彻、有说服力 （八）限字题的解答 1、根据题目要求作完全准确的表述（此时不要过多地考虑字数的多少）； 2、对照字数要求进行简缩：①去除无关紧要的修饰语，②多音节词改为单音节词，③用简称（尤其是地名）。 3、将符合题意和字数要求的句子连起来读一遍，是否有语病，有，必须修改。要做到句子简明、完整、通顺、明确。
UNIT SIX TEXT ONE Maintaining internal E-mail systems has long been the bane of the university information-technology director. Servers are unwieldy and unreliable, and in the past several years, the number of student complaints has grown exponentially as forward-moving providers like YahooMail, Hotmail, and Gmail have increased expectations of what E-mail should offer. The solution for a number of colleges has been to wave the white flag and outsource E-mail hosting to the experts. Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, and Google (Gmail) are the biggest players in the educational E-mail hosting market. Along with the neat-o peripheral gizmos like messaging, calendars, and collaboration tools, the outsourced systems are more stable, have better spam filters, and provide much more storage space than the typical university's in-house system. At the University of Pennsylvania, its old E-mail service gave students 60 megabytes of storage, just 3 percent of the 2 gigabytes Windows Live now provides. In return, Google and Microsoft get almost nothing, at least monetarily and in the short term. Microsoft's Windows Live @ edu and the Google Apps Education Edition are free of charge for schools. Eliminating another source of revenue, the two tech giants stripped their respective services of advertising in an effort to accommodate educators' concerns. Microsoft breaks even on the venture (it does run ads on non-E-mail services like instant messaging), while Google, which makes almost all its money through advertising, runs at a loss. But what money they don't make at the moment will—the companies hope—pay great dividends in the form of lifelong users in the future, says Google's Jeff Kelter. As quickly as they shuffle out of commencement, graduates see their E-mail transition to the traditional ad-based formats of Gmail and Hotmail. And unlike before, when universities couldn't afford to host thousands of alumni, Google and Microsoft can maintain every account indefinitely, retaining customers as long as customers still want them. Not all schools are ready to outsource their tech dirty work, with privacy and security topping the list of concerns. Critics worry that by handing over the responsibility of E-mail hosting, colleges also relinquish the freedom to keep the information safe in the best way they see fit. Even in the corporate world, there is great skepticism of consumer technologies like Google Apps. Yet most university IT managers agree that outsiders would do a better job protecting individual E-mail from viruses and spam than their own small operations, and strong word-of-mouth praise has done wonders to supplement the almost nonexistent marketing budgets for these Microsoft and Google
TEXT 2 He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first published in a book called “The Hawk in the Rain” when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughes's ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs. These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices—symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink. It was not only England that thought so either. Hughes's book was also published in America, where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide. Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died, Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poe ms called “Birthday Letters”.In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters, Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife's death, which he calls his “big and unmanageable event”. He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten. The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware. For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes's early poetry.
超精读——全面提升英语阅读能力 作者：丁晓钟来源：点点英语 经常有同学问我：有没有什么捷径能够顺利地通过四六级、考研或者其它英语考试? 我的回答总是：没有。但是，帮助同学们找到一套科学的学习方法，不仅可以提高英语能力，而且对考试也有切实的帮助，是我一直所追求的。在国内这样的非母语学习环境里，如何在英语学习上少走弯路，最为行之有效和直接的提高英语水平的办法就是大量阅读，并作精细阅读，这样才能带动“听说写译”等其它能力的突破。结合我个人的学习体会，并经过长时间的思考和教学中的摸索，我总结出了一套以阅读为突破口，提高英语综合能力和突破四六级和考研等等英语考试的“超精读”方法，希望能对同学们有所帮助。 对大部分中国学生来说，欠缺的不是泛读，而是精读。总的来说，同学们在超精读文章的时候要对文章和考点、干扰项等进行详细的分析、总结。这时要仔细体会文章中精彩的语言，注意词语的内涵、使用、扩展和搭配，代词和名词的指代，对精彩句型的模仿，以及对重要语法现象、长句、难句、文章结构的分析。另外，还要注意分析句子和句子之间的关系，是因果、递近、转折还是什么？尤其要注意文章的第一句和最后一句，以及每段的第一句和最后一句与其它句子的关系，体会每句话在文章中的作用。在阅读过程中，要培养自己对文章主要讨论对象、关键词，作者和专家的观点，以及语气的把握。特别注意作者和专家的观点，专家和专家之间的观点是否相同或相反或互补，以及作者和专家的语气是赞成还是反对，是关注还是乐观等等。如果是真题，还要仔细分析考点和正确、干扰选项的规律、特征。在此过程中，可把文章尽可能的多读几遍，甚至翻译一下，提高对文章中单词、短语、句型等的反应速度，阅读速度自然也就提高了。 如果能做到上面几点，那么你才能说真正地理解了文章，阅读理解能力以及综合英语能力都会得到很大的提高，其结果是对考试中的每个题型的把握都会更上一层楼。先从听力说起，据研究，一个人的阅读理解能力和听力水平是成正比关系的。试想，有的同学连听力原文都看不懂，怎么可能听懂呢。另外，在超精读的过程中，所积累的词汇能力，对词汇题也有很大帮助，我曾做过统计，如果对10套左右的四六级、考研阅读真题中的词汇进行过深入学习，大纲中的重点词汇就已经囊括大半。最好的词汇记忆方法是通过阅读来学习，可以记得又牢又准确。对翻译、完形、改错、简短回答问题等小题型，你就会觉得得心应手，因为你对这些题型的解题能力和你的阅读、词汇能力最相关。关于作文，许多同学喜欢背模版，其实模版作文千篇一律，很难拿到高分。如果在读英语报刊和真题的过程中，我们有意识地摘抄积累一些精彩地道的词汇和句型，考试时信手拈来，无疑会使评卷老师眼睛为之一亮。实际上，我们所阅读的英语文章就是一篇篇精彩的作文范文。如果我们能在早晨、傍晚朗读或背诵英语报刊文章或真题阅读文章，经常进行翻译练习，耳濡目染接触到的都是地道的英语，坚持下去，我们的听说读写译能力很自然地就会得到提高。 第一步：准备好阅读材料，训练阅读速度，捕捉文章大意。不要查字典、看译文。 在阅读英语报刊（推荐阅读Time, Newsweek, the Economist等）或者真题的时候，第一遍都必须首先注意提高阅读速度。对报刊上的文章，第一遍读的时候不要查字典，记下起止时间，计算单位时间的阅读量。对真题，更加要控制在规定的时间内完成，阅读时就要随时对可能的考点作出标记，最后结合解题技巧来解题。这时的重点放在训练速度，掌握文章大意、结构，以及作者和专家等的观点。 第二步：总结文章中词汇使用的准确性、形象性、多样性和感情色彩及语气，复合词的使用，总结各类重要搭配，对各类重要词汇进行扩展，正确识别代词与抽象名词的指代，并记忆和运用可以在作文中使用的词汇。 1.从文章中词汇使用的准确性、形象性、多样性和感情色彩及语气角度，复合词的使用进行总结。
考研英语英译汉高分攻略 1.近年英译汉考题内容 英译汉短文内容大体上涉及当前人们普遍关注的社会生活、政治、经济、历史、文化、科普等方面的一般常识或社会、自然科学与技术常识的题材。体裁多为议论文。科学常识性的题材占了相当大的比重。 平均值：短文词数：370词；要求翻译的词数：160词 从英译汉试题内容分析，考生就应明确认识到，要想在英语考试中取得成功，必须在基本训练上狠下工夫。首先要扩大知识面，提高自身文化素质。考生如果熟悉试题内容，将有助于对短文的深入理解，增强信心，提高翻译水平。考生应利用各种渠道，特别是通过大量浏览中、英文报纸杂志，扩大相关的知识面。 2.近年英译汉考题的特点 从题型改革后、特别是2018年以后的试题分析，命题组更侧重考生综合运用语言的能力，题难度加大，形成一种趋势。考题要求考生在理解全句、全段或全文的基础上，把语法、词汇的意思和上下文结合起来理解，表面看上去画线的句子语法不很复杂，词汇似乎也不陌生，但翻译时很多考生觉得难以动笔，难度增大体现在?不能采用就词论词、就句论句的简单直译方法，而要求把词和句子放在篇章里去理解，还可强调英语习惯用法、语感和翻译技巧的掌
握。这样仅靠熟悉语法规则和孤立地背单词已远远不够了。这也是考生得分普遍不高的主要原因。近年来英译汉试题主要特点如下? (1) 反映自然科学、社会科学的常识性、科学类和报刊评论文章占很大比例；? (2)考题难度加大； (3)语法现象难度有所降低；? (4)突出简单翻译技巧，如：词、词组的省略及补译，译出it，they，this，that等代词的真正代表的含义，词义选择、引申、词性转换，长句的拆句与逆序翻译法等。考生应针对这些特点认真做好适当的准备。 3. 在翻译过程中常见的症结 有的考生英语阅读能力比较强，能正确理解句子。但是，一翻译就往往有一种想说说不出来的感觉。或者即使翻译出来了，总觉得自己的译文没有把事情说清楚，找不到贴切的词来表达。 4.理解是翻译的前提 只有在准确理解的基础上，才能开始翻译。英语是用大量的关系词、连接词和引导词等连接起来的结构清楚、层次分明、逻辑严密的“形态语”，所以理解的时候就必须理清句子的语法结构，分清句子中各成分之间的语法关系，即找出句子的主干，弄清句子的各个修饰成分以及修饰关系。 5.根据汉语习惯适当调整 如上所述，必须在准确理解的基础上，寻找贴切的汉语来表达。如何展开
2015考研英语阅读理解精读P18—工学 类 Passage 18 Tennis hopeful Jamie Hunt, 16, felt he could not become a world-class junior player while attending a regular school. The international circuit has players on the road 50% of the time--and it's hard to focus on your backhand when you're worrying about being on time for homeroom. So last year Hunt, who hones his ground strokes at Elite TNT Tennis Academy in April Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility I need," says Hunt. "The workload is the same, but I can do it anywhere. It's nicer to ask a question face-to-face with a teacher, but in some ways it prepares me better for college because I have to be more independent." A year ago, Hunt's world junior ranking was 886; now it's 108. Virtual high schools, which allow students to take classes via PC, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative, particularly for on-the-go athletes. UMOHS has more than 400 students enrolled, 65% of whom are athletes. Accredited by the 100-year-old Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, UMOHS offers honors and advanced-placement classes. All course material is online, along with assignments and due dates. For help, says principal Howard Liebman, "a student may e-mail, instant message or call the teacher." Dallas mom Lori Bannon turned to another online school, Laurel Springs in Ojai, Calif. Bannon, who has a medical degree from Harvard, didn't want to compromise the education of her daughter Lindsay, 13, an élite gymnast who spends eight hours a day in the gym. "Regular school was not an option," says Bannon, "but I wanted to make sure she could go back at grade level if she quit gymnastics." Laurel Springs' enrollment has increased 35% a year for the past four years, to 1,800 students. At least 25% are either athletes or child entertainers. Educators are split on the merits of such schools. Paul Orehovec, an enrollment officer for the University of Miami, admits, "I was somewhat of a skeptic. But when I looked into their programs and accreditation, I was excited. UMOHS is the first online school to be granted membership in the National Honor Society." Kevin Roy, Elite's director of education, sees pitfalls and potential in virtual schools. "You will never have that wonderful teacher who inspires you for life," says Roy. "But the virtual school offers endless possibilities. I don't know where education's imagination will take this." 注(1)：本文选自Time;11/29/2004, p149-149, 1/2p, 1c; 注(2)：本文习题命题模仿对象2004年真题text 4第1、2题(1、2)，text 1 第2 题(3)，text 3第5 题(5)和2000年真题text 4第4题(4); 1. What does Jamie Hunt get from the virtual school? [A] the ability to perfect his tennis skills [B] the time to do his school work