1 . After Aida’s parents fled war-torn Bosnia for Sweden in the early 1990s, they put their five-year-old daughter in a school full of native Swedes and made sure she studied hard to get ahead. It ______. Today she is Sweden’s minister for upper secondary education. Like her fellow across Europe, she faces a new ______ -making sure that a fresh wave of refugee children can integrate (融入) as successfully as she did.
In the countries accepting the most refugees-Sweden and Germany-lack of ______ is not a problem. Before the migrant poured, both countries faced ______ numbers of pupils because of low birth rates.
The biggest problem for the education ______ is that refugee children tend to be concentrated together. Many ______ schools near refugee centers or in immigrant neighborhoods. This means they are partially separated and less ______ to learn the local language.
Moreover, immigrants ______ find housing in poor areas with lower education standard. Schools where more than a quarter of students are immigrants usually ______ worse than those with no immigrants. From 2002 to 2012 Sweden’s ______ in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) fell more than ______ country’s.
The German system has its ______. In some German states, school days are being ______, and the ______ has made a big investment in preschool education. In Sweden, meanwhile older refugees are being trained as teaching ______ to speed integration. But far more could be done.
Most importantly, European governments need to treat refugee children as an ______ rather than a problem.______ by a desperate desire for a better life, they and their parents tend to be hard-working and ______. Europeans who worried about migrants studying together ______ their children should lake ______ because about half of the refugees (难民) reaching Europe from Syria have university degrees, according to UNHCR.
1. A.studied | B.worked | C.failed | D.embarrassed |
2. A.program | B.choice | C.challenge | D.success |
3. A.space | B.purpose | C.knowledge | D.money |
4. A.declining | B.increasing | C.spreading | D.raising |
5. A.content | B.process | C.principle | D.system |
6. A.join | B.join in | C.attend | D.take part in |
7. A.possibly | B.likely | C.entirely | D.generally |
8. A.intend to | B.trend | C.devote to | D.tend to |
9. A.apply | B.equip | C.perform | D.make |
10. A.rank | B.range | C.view | D.goal |
11. A.one another | B.the other | C.each other | D.any other |
12. A.right | B.strength | C.weakness | D.pride |
13. A.shortened | B.loosened | C.enlarged | D.extended |
14. A.government | B.school | C.committee | D.university |
15. A.managers | B.operators | C.assistants | D.secretaries |
16. A.opportunity | B.wonder | C.news | D.complaint |
17. A.Stricken | B.Guided | C.Driven | D.Confused |
18. A.curious | B.ambitious | C.anxious | D.eager |
19. 20. A.hope | B.convenience | C.respect | D.comfort |