Tutoring a New Normal
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It's not piano lessons or dance class. Nowadays, the biggest extracurricular activity in the
West is going to a tutor. “I spend about 800 [Canadian] dollars a month on tutors. It’s Pat, a mother in Canada. However, she adds,“After finding out half my daughter’s class had tutors,
I felt like my child was going to fall behind becau everyone el emed to be ahead.”
Shelley, a mother of three, also has tutors constantly coming in and out of her home.“When I
ud to sit down with my children, it was hard to get them focud. I was always yelling. When I
got a tutor once a week, they became focud for one entire hour and could get most of their
homework done.”
Tutoring isn’t simply a private school phenomenon. Nor is it geared only toward lower-
achieving students. In Canada alone, ven percent of high school students reported using a tutor in
2010. That incread to 15 percent in five years.
Overall, parents hire tutors becau they are worried that schools are not meeting their
expectations, but there is also a cultural shift. A special value is placed on education in Asia, where
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tutoring is viewed as an extension of the school day. With a large number of Asians emigrating（移
民）to the West in recent years, their attitudes towards education have had an impact.
Another reason for the growth in business is parental frustration and their packed schedules.“A
says Julie Diamond,
lot of parents just don’t have time to help their children with homework,”
president of an American tutoring company. “Others couldn’t help their children after Grade Three. ”
There has been a shift in the attitudes, too. “Children ud to get bullied （欺侮）for having
Now it’s becoming the norm to have one.”
a tutor，” Diamond says.“
Children themlves don’t em to mind that they have a tutor. One parent feels surprid that so many of her child’s classmates have tu
tors. “For the amount we pay in tuition, they should have
as much extra help as they need,”she says. Still, she’s now thinking of getting a tutor. Why? Her
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daughter has actually asked for one.
（节选自MACLEANS）
1. The tutoring business in the West has en growth in recent years becau_______.
①immigrants from Asia have had an impact on people’s attitudes toward tutoring
②a lot of parents are too occupied to help their children with homework
③children no longer get bullied for getting extra help from a tutor
④many schools cannot offer as much extra help as their students need
A. ①②③
B. ①②④
C.①③④
D.②③④
2. Between 2010 and 2015 in Canada, the number of high school students using a tutor grew
by_______.
A. ven percent
B. eight percent
C. ten percent
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D. fifteen percent
3. Shelley decided to equip her children with a tutor becau cau_________.
A. her children’s school was not meeting her expectations
B. over half of her children’s classmates had tutors
C. her children’s homework was too difficult for her
D. she had a hard time getting her children focud
4. According to the article, which of the following statements is true?
A. Pat got a tutor becau she couldn’t help her child with homework.
B. Shelley spends about 800 Canadian dollars on tutors every month.
三个代表的重要思想
C. Most students who u a tutor have poor scores at school.
D. Asians usually place more emphasis on education than Westerners.
词汇：
学习辅导constantly adv. all the time, very often持续不断地，经常地
phenomenon n. a fact, event, type of behavior, etc. that exists and can be experienced by the ns, especially one that is unusual现象
90后的我们
extension n. the act of extending or being extended延伸，扩展
形容天气的词frustration n.the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
懊恼，沮丧
过年红包语法：
When I got a tutor once a week, they became focud for one entire hour and could get most of their homework done.”
本句中的done是过去分词作宾语补足语，此时宾语most of their homework与宾语补足语done在逻辑上是被动关系。该结构通常用语感官动词和使役动词中。
答案：1.A 2.B 3.D 4.D
