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1、智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料托福阅读材料之孤儿也能成功-智课教育旗下智课教育本文和大家分享的是托福阅读材料之孤儿也能成功，为大家的托福 考试助力。考生在复习时要多积累托福阅读背景知识，希望大家都能取 得理想的考试成绩。 托福阅读偏重于有一些专业性并且有一些难度的文章，在托福阅读 练习材料选择上要注意。那么我们在进行阅读练习的时候，应该选择什 么样的阅读资料呢？一起来看看本期为大家分享的托福阅读材料，帮助 大家的托福备考复习。 Teachers at Arlington Park Learning Center have high expectations for all of their
2、 students-including those who are homeless. This past summer, single mother Angela Arnold moved halfway across the United States, from North Carolina to Dallas, Texas, with her 9-year-old son Jordan. A veteran mortgage lender whod been laid off, she expected to quickly find a new job here, where the
3、 economys better. So she rented a room by the week in an extended-stay motel. That was more than six months ago.When she enrolled Jordan in her neighborhood school, Arlington Park Learning Centers counselor told her she was considered homeless. “Im like, Homeless? What do you mean homeless? Im not h
4、omeless,“ says Arnold. “And, like I said, Ive never been put in a situation such as this. He said, Well its a homeless program youre in because you dont have a home, have an address, you dont have a residency. I thought Wow, OK.“ Arnoldis still looking for work while managing with her unemployment c
5、heck. She is one of more than 100 Arlington Park parents considered homeless. The small school with 246 mostly black and Hispanic students sits close to Interstate 35, a busy highway. The county hospital, a womens shelter andseveral extended-stay hotels, where the rooms have small kitchens. “We have
6、 a lot of children coming from the hotels and motels out on 35,“ says Mark Pierce, who runs the school districts homeless education program, including the one at Arlington Park. “So we have a lot of kids there. Every single day we get new kids from the hotels and motels.“ There are at least 5,000 ho
7、meless students in Dallas schools. Pierce says families find themselves to be homeless for a variety of reasons. “A family living with another family, because theyve been evicted, because theyre fleeing from domestic violence, because they just werent able to afford their housing anymore, and just g
8、ave it up and moved in with somebody, theyre homeless.“ The school district gives their children breakfast, lunch and weekend snacks, and provides transportation to and from the hotels, motels and shelters. It helps parents too, by offering free city bus passes.Arnoldis grateful for the help she rec
9、eives. “If it wasnt for the program they have here, with the clothes, the uniforms they provide, the book bags, because all our things are in storage.“ Her 4th grade son, Jordan, says he loves his new school, but not the hotel. “I wish we were going to have a house to go in. I like Texas better beca
10、use they have more schools, art schools. Its kind of good here, because its so, its so just good to me. Its all good to me in every way. And then all the teachers, they just want you to have a good day. Thats why theyre so hard on you.“ Theyre hard on the students, says Arlington Park Principal Niki
11、a Smith, because they want them to excel, addingthat homelessness is no excuse for low expectations. “The expectations for learning are still there, and expectations well get them close to the level of proficiency for testing as any of our students whove been here all year is still a very big thing
12、we have to deal with,“ says Smith. But homeless students have more than academic issues to deal with, says first-grade teacher Jacqueline Smith. Its difficult for their parents to worry about school supplies when theyre not sure where their next meal is coming from. “I needed to adapt, adapting to w
13、here I realized I had to go out sometimes and buy the comb, buy the brush, buy the lotion. Have it in my drawer,“ she says. “They come and their hair wasnt combed. I had to comb their hair. I had to have wipes, Go in the bathroom and wash your face. In a way, I became mom.“ Smith expects to stay at
14、Arlington Park until she retires, because she says, these students are like her kids. That personalized attention might be paying off. The schools rank among Texas schools - based on student performance on math and reading tests-keeps improving.Principal Nikia Smith says its not the childs fault a parent is out of work, on drugs or in jail. But their home situation shouldnt affect what happens at school. At Arlington Park, she says, students will learn and everyone will defy the odds so they can shine. 以上就是智课教育考试为大家整理的关于托福阅读材料的内容，考 生可在平常复习中进行相关知识的积累。若您想了解托福考试更多相关 信息请关注智课教育出国考试。
