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Exercise
1. What does the American Enterprise Institute do?
2. What are important to their future success for today's student?
3. What can summer vacation cause for today's families?
4. Can American students to take a summer vacation? In a summer Vacation, millions of kids spend time sending messages, watching TV, playing games and doing shopping in the mall. They will also be putting their futures at risk.
5. They offer no more than seven consective weeks of . Most American school offer up to thirteen weeks. To compete in the marketplace, Americans must be prepared to go up against competitors.
6. Researchers have found that disadvantaged students lose ground in the summertime. A school year does not have to be an to hard boring work. Rather, it should allow time-pressed teachers to conduct and more imaginative lessons.
Words & Phrases
Words：
athletics 運(yùn)動(dòng)
boring 枯燥的，令人厭煩的
challenge 挑戰(zhàn)
competitor 競(jìng)爭(zhēng)者
consecutive 連續(xù)的，連貫的
disadvantaged 貧窮的；弱勢(shì)的，處于不利地位的
grand 極妙的，盛大的
household 家庭，家族
imaginative 想象的，虛構(gòu)的
marketplace 市場(chǎng)，集會(huì)場(chǎng)所
nonprofit 非營(yíng)利的，不以營(yíng)利為目的的
outdated 過(guò)時(shí)的，不流行的
significant 重要的，有意義的
stay-at-home 待在家的，不喜歡出門的
summertime 夏季
Phrases：
at risk 在危險(xiǎn)中
be prepared to... 準(zhǔn)備......
in the past 在過(guò)去
make sense 有意義
millions of 數(shù)百萬(wàn)的
no more than 不超過(guò)
Sentence Patterns 句型
1. For today's students, academic skills are important to students' future success.
對(duì)于今天的學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō)，學(xué)術(shù)技能對(duì)學(xué)生將來(lái)的成功至關(guān)重要。
... are important to... ......對(duì)......是最重要的
2. The biggest problem may be how summer vacation hurts academic achievement.
最大的問(wèn)題可能是暑期如何影響了學(xué)生的成績(jī)。
The biggest problem may be... 最大的問(wèn)題是......
