【主题分类】长篇阅读：教育
【高级表达】
Overburdened：负担过重的、装载过多的
Over-前缀在此处表示 “超过”、“过度”，常见的类似词语还有overwork, overstudy, overact, overproduction
Be valued over sth: 被认为比......更有价值，比......更重要
Value sth over sth：认为......比......更有价值、更重要
Inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion：让......学校所在社区加入到一场全国性的讨论
Insert sb/sth into sth：原意是把......嵌入、放入......里面，此文中，这个短语表示这封信让这个学校卷入一场讨论当中
Do not Amount to anything：没有结果、等于零
amount to a "dumbing down"：导致“难度/标准”降低
Amount to后面需要加名词，意为“相当于、总计”。常用的搭配有amount to much有重要性、了不起；amount to something 有所成就；amount to nothing无结果、等于零、一事无成
Anti-intellectual trend：反知识潮流/趋势
Prepare our children for the future：为孩子的将来做好准备
Prepare sb for sth 为某人对......做好准备。常用搭配还有prepare ourselves for the challenges, prepare the economy for future crisis等
【关键句型】选取材料中3-5个重要的句型，中英双语
One one side are...on the other side are...：其中一边/方是......，另一边/方是......
该句型常用来表达对比，而且用的是倒装语序，意思跟one the one hand...on the other hand...类似
With many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them. 随着众多亚裔美国孩子参加辅导项目，有一部分白人家庭开始觉得，小学课程已经加快了进度来适应他们（亚裔美国孩子）
以with引导的名词性短语常用在句子开头作为状语，不少考生在写作中也比较喜欢这个句型，但要注意的是，with引导的是名词性短语，所以如果涉及到动词，一定要进行相应的分词变位。
【答案解析】
36. Aderhold is limiting the extra classes that students are allowed to take off campus.由题干中的 limiting 、 extra classes和 off campus 定位到文章 F 段第一句。
F)Asian-American students have been eager participants in a state program that permits them to take summer classes off campus for high school credit, allowing them to maximize the number of honors and Advanced Placement classes they can take, another practice that Aderhold is limiting this school year. With many Asian-American children attending supplementary instructional programs, there is a perception among some white families that the elementary school curriculum is being sped up to accommodate them.
题干中的 extra classes 对应原文中的 summer classes，故答案为 F。
37. White and Asian-American parents responded differently to Aderhold’s appeal.
由 题 干 中 的 White andAsian-American parents responded differently 定位到文章 C 段
C)But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines. On one side are white parents like Catherine Foley, a former president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at her daughter's middle school, who has come to see the district's increasingly pressured atmosphere as opposed to learning. "My son was in fourth grade and told me, 'I'm not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my resume,'" she said. On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down" of his children's education. "What is happening here reflects a national anti-intellectual trend that will not prepare our children for the future," Jia said.
题干中的 responded differently 对应原文中的 a divide，题干是对定位段的概括总结，故答案为 C
38. Suicidal thoughts have appeared in some students’ writings.
由 题 干 中 的 Suicidal thoughts 和 writings 定位到文章I 段最后一句。
I）The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides. West Windsor-Plainsboro has not had a teenage suicide in recent years, but Aderhold, who has worked in the district for seven years and been chief for the last three years, said he had seen troubling signs. In a recent art assignments, a middle school student depicted an overburdened child who was being scolded for earning an A, rather than an A+ , on a math exam. In the image, the mother scolds the student with the words, "Shame on you!" Further, he said, the New Jersey Education Department has flagged at least two pieces of writing on state English language assessments in which students expressed suicidal thoughts.
题干中的 apprared 是对原文中 expressed 的同义转述，故答案为 I。
39. Aderhold’s reform of the advanced mathematics program will affect Asian-American students most.
由 题 干 中 的 Aderhold's reform 和 advanced mathematics program 定位到文章 E 段最后两句
E)The district has become increasingly popular with immigrant families from China, India and Korea. This year, 65 percent of its students are Asian-American, compared with 44 percent in 2007. Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States. They have had a growing influence on the district. Asian-American parents are enthusiastic supporters of the competitive instrumental music program. They have been huge supporters of the district's advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth. The change to the program, in which 90 percent of the participating students are Asian-American, is one of Aderhold's reforms.
题干是对定位句的推理判断，故答案为 E。
40. Aderhold appealed for parents’ support in promoting an all-round development children, instead of focusing only on their academic performance.
由 题 干 中 的 an all-round development 和 academic performance 定位到文章 B 段第二句。
B)With his letter, Aderhold inserted West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District into a national discussion about the intense focus on achievement at elite schools, and whether it has gone too far. At follow-up meetings, he urged parents to join him in advocating a "whole child" approach to schooling that respects "social-emotional development" and "deep and meaningful learning" over academics alone. The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.
题干中的 appealed for parents' support in promoting 对应原文中的 urged parents to join him in advocating; an all-round development 对应原文中的 a “whole child” approach，故答案为 B。
41. One Chinese-American parent thinks the competition in the district has gone too far.
由题干中的 Chinese-American parent和 competition in the district定位到文章K段第二句。
K)Not all public opinion has fallen along racial lines. Karen Sue, the Chinese-American mother of a fifth-grader and an eighth-grader, believes the competition within the district has gotten out of control. Sue, who was born in the United States to immigrant parents, wants her peers to dial it back. "It's become an arms race, an educational arms race," she said. "We all want our kids to achieve and be successful. The question is, at what cost?"
题干中的 One Chinese-American parent 指 Karen Sue；题干中的 has gone too far 对应原文中的 has gotten out of control，故答案为 K。
42. Immigrant parents believe that academic excellence will allow their children equal chances to succeed in the future.
由题干中的 academic excellence和 equal chances 定位到文章 H 段最后一句。
H)Jennifer Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and an author of the Asian American Achievement Paradox, says misunderstanding between first-generation Asian-American parents and those who have been in this country longer are common. What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class. "They don't have the same chances to get their children internships (实习职位 ) or jobs at law firms," Lee said. "So what they believe is that their children must excel and beat their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chances to excel later. "
题干中的 equal chances 对应原文中的 same chances，故答案为 H。
43. Many businessmen and professionals have moved to West Windsor and Plainboro because of the public schools there.
由题干中的 West Windsor and Plainsboro 和public schools 定位到文章 D 段第一句。
D)About 10 minutes from Princeton and an hour and a half from New York City, West Windsor and Plainsboro have become popular bedroom communities for technology entrepreneurs, researchers and engineers, drawn in large part by the public schools. From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT. It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.
题干中的 moved to 和 because of 分别对应原文中的 drawn 和 in large part by， 故答案为 D。
44. A number of students in Aderhold’s school district were found to have stress-induced mental health problems.
由题干中的 stress-induced 和mental health 定位到文章 A 段画线处。
A)This fall, David Aderhold, the chief of a high-achieving school district near Princeton, New Jersey, sent parents an alarming 16-page letter. The school district, he said, was facing a crisis. Its students were overburdened and stressed out, having to cope with too much work and too many demands. In the previous school year, 120 middle and high school students were recommended for mental health assessments and 40 were hospitalized. And on a survey administered by the district, students wrote things like, "I hate going to school," and "Coming out of 12 years in this district, I have learned one thing: that a grade, a percentage or even a point is to be valued over anything else."
题干是对段落的总结，故答案为 A。
45. The tension between Asian-American and white families has increased in recent years.
由 题 干 中 的 tension 和Asian-American and white families定位到文章 G 段第一句。
G)Both Asian-American and white families say the tension between the two groups has grown steadily over the past few years, as the number of Asian families has risen. But the division has become more obvious in recent months as Aderhold has made changes, including no-homework nights, an end to high school midterms and finals, and an initiative that made it easier to participate in the music program.
题干中的 has increased 是对原文中 has grown steadily 的同义转述，故答案为 G。
