备战六级阅读：女子长曲棍球队提升学校毕业率_大学英语阅读

备战六级阅读：女子长曲棍球队提升学校毕业率

　　麦加维：你知道，我认为每年的目标都会不同。今年刚刚起步，正在尽力打好基础，并在Ballou创建女子长曲棍球的传统。

　　Members of the lacrosse team practice at Ballou High School in Washington Lacrosse is a fast-moving sport, the modern version of a game played by American Indians. Teams try to make goals with a ball caught and thrown using a net at the end of a stick.

　　长曲棍球是一项快速移动的运动，它是一种印第安土著游戏的现代版本。各队使用一根顶部带网的球杆来传接球从而完成进球目标。

　　School officials decided to make changes at Ballou after less than sixty percent of the senior class graduated in two thousand six. Since then the graduation rate has improved by ten to fifteen percent. Rahman Branch, the school principal, says one change was to increase activities after the school day.

　　在2006年高年级班不到60%的毕业率后，学校官员决定做出改变。自那以后，毕业率提高了10%到15%。学校校长拉曼布兰奇(Rahman Branch)表示，变化之一是增加了课后活动。

　　RAHMAN BRANCH: We decided to take some more approaches to add on to them being comfortable being a kid, to now making sure they are a kid who knows what they want, what it takes to get there, and then has the stamina to go through.