'This is crisis teaching': students with disabilities are neglected as coronavirus shuts schools
Homeschooling your children during the Covid-19 pandemic(流行病) is hard. For parents whose children have a disability, it's a 'herculean(困难的) task'
As her mom tells it, Sesame Street(儿童节目) is Aubrey's first and only love. Her affection for the program's cast of puppets, for Elmo in particular, is so aggressive and pure that her parents have to restrict her access to it because she gets so peculiar after watching it.
Aubrey, whose real name her parents asked be withheld to protect her privacy, is a 16-year-old student in Los Angeles. As a teenager living with autism(自闭症), routine is the bedrock of her day.
But in the days of a spiraling coronavirus crisis, predicting what comes next is all but impossible. “Think about how we are with uncertainty and multiply it by a million. For her not knowing is almost unbearable,” said her father, Pirouz Kavehpour.
Today, with 124,000 of the nation's schools closed due to coronavirus, Kavehpour has joined the ranks of millions of parents turned into homeschool teachers overnight – no easy feat for any working parent, but especially challenging for parents whose children have disabilities.
It remains unclear when schools across the country will reopen. California officials already indicated they won't restart this academic year and a handful of other states have closed doors until fall. And as classrooms shift to online learning, many of the services guaranteed to the nation's roughly 7 million children with disabilities have been effectively suspended.
Federal law promises to give students educational services that address individual needs. But it's unclear when children with disabilities will get the kind of face-to-face help they had been getting at school before.(Adapted from the Guardian BY Jerry)
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Actually, peer pressure can sometimes be a good thing.Friends can give you the courage to try something you normally wouldn’t, like a new sport or taking part in the school play.Nicole S., 16, used to be afraid of singing in front of people.One time, her friends persuaded her to sing karaoke with them.She ended up having fun! “Now 1 will sing anywhere, even with people present.Positive peer pressure helped me face my fear,” she says.
The people around you can also be bad influences, however.Maybe a star teammate tells you never to pass the ball to a certain player, or a popular student cheats on tests or sends mean texts.Should you try to be like them to fit in?
What should you do with peer pressure then? Peer pressure is powerful, but the ability to choose is yours.If a situation feels wrong, there’s a good chance that it is wrong.Standing up for yourself and saying no isn’t always easy.But you might give voice to a group of peers that feel the same way you do.It can take just one person to speak out and change a situation.The main thing is not to compromise (妥协) who you are.The kind of coolness and popularity you think you may get by joining the crowd and doing risky things won’t last long.Your character is with you for the rest of your life.Be who you are, not who others want you to be.People will respect you for standing up for yourself - even if it doesn’t seem like it right away.
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全国学生近视状况调查结果(人数百分比)
学校英文报正在开展以Short-sightedness Among Students为题的讨论。请使用图表中的调查结果写一篇短文投稿，内容包括：
1.学生近视状况描述；
2.简单分析原因；
3.你的建议。
注意：写作词数应为80左右。
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注意:1.仔细品味漫画中两个孩子的不同心情,分析其反映的社会现象。可适当发挥,注意行文连贯。
2.词数150左右。开头已经写好,不计入总词数。
As is vividly shown in the picture, a country boy is crying helplessly in the darkness, longing eagerly for school education. It implies severe educational problems...
内容包括：
1. 你对大学生抗疫事迹的感受；
2. 你对高中生的建议；
注意：
1. 词数100左右，可适当增加细节；
2. 标题已给出。
Be a responsible teenager
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1. 疫情防控形势严峻； 2. 防护建议(至少两点)。
注意: 1. 词数100左右； 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇: 端午: The Dragon Boat Festival
Dear fellow students,
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Students’ Union
In January 2020, my life wasn’t just great. I was the youngest in my amazing group of best friends, I had managed to secure 8 spot on the swim team. Then when February began, I had the best Sweet Sixteen a girl could ask for. Shortly after my birthday, my team traveled for week in Hawaii.
Little did we know we would return to chaos and a complete change of our way of life. It was March 13 and there was talk of school shutting down for two weeks. We were all excited, but on top of the news of the day, some students pulled the fire alarm and we found ourselves in the pouring rain on the wet, muddy field. About to be dismissed for what was only supposed to be a long spring break, my best friends, who I had seen practically every day, made promises to each other about how we would stay close during the lockdown.
Shortly into quarantine(隔离期), I found myself taking up hobbies like learning French, catching up on TV shows, learning piano, and doing anything I could to keep myself busy. At the time, online school was a complete joke. It was all homework because the teachers didn’t know how to teach online yet. Looking back on March 13th, I felt like a fool for thinking two weeks would be a solution to a pandemic(流行病). Months went by and the new school year began. I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that I went from training in the pool for fifteen hours a week to zero. My desire to catch up on hobbies went away, and the pain of missing my friends came. I was in a battle for my mental and physical health.
注意：1续写词数应为150左右。
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Still, all the same, I felt ever so determined to climb out of the darkness.
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I made a New Year’s resolution to become more devoted to my studies.
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注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Will On-line Teaching Replace Traditional Classrooms?
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提示：
1. 上网课的好处； 2. 网上学习的弊端； 3. 我的网上学习心得。
注意：1. 词数100左右;
2. 要点齐全, 行文连贯, 可适当发挥。
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(1)网课的优势与不足；
(2)自己的学习感受；
注意：
(1)写作词数应为80左右；
(2) 题目已为你写好；
(3) self-disciplined 自律的。
Be self-disciplined online learners
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