山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（9）_高考复习指南

山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（9）

　　D．dog-shaped pencil sharpeners are parents’ favorite choice for children．

　　8．This text is written mainly to______.?

　　A．show how to choose proper holiday gifts

　　B．suggest a nice way of holiday gift giving

　　C．recommend good gifts at reasonable prices

　　D．introduce a channel to receive kind donations

　　If you’ve met and exchanged contact information with your child’s teacher or volunteered to become the class parent, you’re on hour way to becoming an engaged parent—the kind of adult education researchers say, who helps children to be the best they can be in school.

　　Now, more than 20 states are about to make your role as an engaged parent a lot more important. Parents whose children attend a failing school can band together. If 51 percent of them sign a petition(请愿书), they can demand, and the district must provide, a new set of administrators to run the school. Parents have become the hottest players in education reform. It’s an encouraging development.

　　Over the last 15 years, parents were first invited—and now, in many places, are required ---to participate in choosing what school their children will attend. It’s a great idea, but imperfect and time-consuming. Some wealthy parents register their children in private schools, where the admission process is often much easier and class size is smaller. Many low-income parents are finding better options for their children . But many are not, especially those less good at working the system. However, when re=searchers studied the school choice process in Harford, they found that schools with the highest levels of parental satisfaction were often ones with the lowest levels of academic achievement and things were the same all over the country.