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Recent studies show that many young people in the United States never finish high school.Some researchers say about fifteen to twenty percent of public school students do not complete their education.But many other experts and policymakers believe that for the past twenty years,the dropout rate has been around thirty percent.For Latino and black students,the numbers are even higher.Researchers say almost half of them leave schoo1.At the same time,almost half the states let students leave school before the age of eighteen without letting their parents know.
Finding a good job without a high school education is _________.A recent study found that almost half of all dropouts aged sixteen to twenty—four did not have a job.The lack of high school education can also lead to other problems.An estimated two—thirds of prisoners in the United States dropped out of high schoo1.
The main reason why many students drop out of school is that they are failing.Many are bored with their classes or feel disconnected from their school and teachers.Some students feel that educators place low expectations on them.
There have been efforts to increase graduation rates through education reforms during the past twenty years.Some communities are working on dropout prevention programs.These include alternative (其他的) high schools to meet special needs.In addition,experts suggest “early warning systems’’ to help identify young school children at the risk of dropping out of high schoo1.They say schools should also keep regular contact with parents,especially if their children are missing school often.
1.What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
2.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
Many students feel tired of their classes or don’t feel connected with their school and teachers.
3.Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(Please answer within 10 words.)
4.What do you think is the most important reason for the high dropout rate in the high school?(Please answer within 30 words.)
5.Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
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It's Friday morning in the year 2025, and you're running late.You got upset watching the music video that is playing in the corner of your bathroom mirror while you were brushing your teeth.How will you get to your office at Mega Giga Industries on time?
A quick check of your Internet-connected refrigerator magnet tells you your train, which ________ up to 250 miles an hour as it electromagnetically hovers above its guide track, is a bit behind schedule, too.So you decide to drive your environmentally-friendly hydrogen fuel cell car instead-or rather, let your car drive you.It's programmed to know the way, and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, or crashing.
Settling into your office chair, which changes color to match what you're wearing, you pick up yesterday morning's newspaper.Printed on reusable electronic paper, it instantly rewrites itself with today's headlines.Now it's time for your big meeting.Uh-oh! You're left your handwritten notes at home.No problem.The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you wrote.
Your wristwatch videophone suddenly rings.Your best friend's face pops up on the organic light-emitting diode screen asking what you're doing this weekend.Will you slap on your 3-D contact lenses and play virtual soccer with the U.S.Olympic team? No, no.Your friend says, so you have to take the new nano-tube elevator(made of microscopic fibers many times stronger than steel)60, 000 miles into space.
Could this scene really take place in just a couple of decades? The researchers who are currently developing all this stuff think so.These gadgets may be as common in 20 years as cell phones and DVD players are today.
1.What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words.)
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2.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
What you wrote at home has been automatically stored in your magic pen.
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3.Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.(Please answer within 10 words.)
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4.What is special of the newspaper in the year 2025?(Please answer within 30 words.)
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5.Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
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