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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 运动
boring 枯燥的，令人厌烦的
challenge 挑战
competitor 竞争者
consecutive 连续的，连贯的
disadvantaged 贫穷的；弱势的，处于不利地位的
grand 极妙的，盛大的
household 家庭，家族
imaginative 想象的，虚构的
marketplace 市场，集会场所
nonprofit 非营利的，不以营利为目的的
outdated 过时的，不流行的
significant 重要的，有意义的
stay-at-home 待在家的，不喜欢出门的
summertime 夏季
Phrases：
at risk 在危险中
be prepared to... 准备......
in the past 在过去
make sense 有意义
millions of 数百万的
no more than 不超过
Sentence Patterns 句型
1. For today's students, academic skills are important to students' future success.
对于今天的学生来说，学术技能对学生将来的成功至关重要。
... are important to... ......对......是最重要的
2. The biggest problem may be how summer vacation hurts academic achievement.
最大的问题可能是暑期如何影响了学生的成绩。
The biggest problem may be... 最大的问题是......
