10.對學校的選擇
段落大意：每年都有很多中學畢業生麵臨著擇校問題：到底是去四年製大學還是去社區學院呢？
Every year thousands of junior and senior high school students face the difficult question about what they want to do with their lives after high school. Choosing a college means venturing （冒險） into a new, unfamiliar world of immense （無限的） possibilities. An exciting experience awaits teenagers when they come to this point in life. Or is it a world of unknown risks? Students have a wide variety of options （選擇） when it comes to making their decisions. Some of these students choose a path that will take them to higher levels of education at a prestigious（聲名顯赫的） four-year college or university, while others take the option of staying close to home at a community college （社區學院）.
11.教育解決貧困問題
段落大意：教育是解決貧困問題的唯一途徑。
What is so depressing is the fact that education is the only way to get people out of poverty. Education is the only intervention （幹預，幹涉） that can help children from poor families break the cycle. In addition to giving young people basic skills, education can make them aware of opportunities beyond the ghetto （貧民窟）. The few who escape the problems of crime, drugs, prostitution （賣淫）, and unwed motherhood （未婚媽媽的身份） are those who have received help from committed teachers and social workers （社工）.
12.性教育的必要性
段落大意：性教育能讓中學生正確麵對性問題，其意義不容小覷。
“High schools must provide young people with adequate sex education because ignorance can be harmful.”The largest gulf （鴻溝） of understanding still remains between the parents and the youth, especially in the area of sexuality. Sex is a natural part of life, and when questions arise, they can be discussed in a mature way. Owing to this, we realize that sex education is important in a person’s life. Therefore, sex education in high schools is very necessary for youngsters to acquire information and form their attitudes, beliefs and values about identity, relationships and intimacy （親密關係）. Sex education also encompasses （包含） sexual development, affection, body image （身體意象） and gender roles （性別角色）. In other words, it is about learning how we grow, reproduce（生殖，繁衍） and change over the years. It also includes a positive view of sex and safety involved in sexuality.
13.老師在教育中扮演的角色
段落大意：老師在教育中扮演著多重角色，如導師、榜樣、父母、關懷者、鼓勵者等。
A teacher’s role is very dynamic （不斷變化的） and versatile（多方麵的）. However, there are quite a number of conflicting （互相衝突的） expectations teachers face about the roles they should play. This makes teaching one of the most challenging and demanding jobs. Along with teaching in their curriculum area, the role of a teacher is to foster （培養） children’s interests and facilitate （促進） their learning ability in a positive manner. As a result, the teacher also has the role of mentor, role model, parent, caregiver, counselor and motivator, and so on and so forth.
14.應減少家庭作業的量
段落大意：太多的家庭作業無益反有害，應被限製在適合的範圍內。
Homework has traditionally been given to students to reinforce （鞏固） what they have learned at school, and ultimately to help them absorb （吸收） the information better. However, too much homework is not helpful, and can even be counterproductive （起負麵作用的）. Excessive（過度的） amounts of time spent on completing homework can take up a kid’s social and family gathering time, and limit their participation in sports or other activities. The amount of homework a teacher can give to a student should be restricted, and only assigned due to necessity.
15.電腦與教育
段落大意：電腦普遍應用於教育這一現象引起了人們的思考。
Education is defined as “the knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process or an instructive or enlightening （啟發性的） experience.”It is referred to as the knowledge obtained, but does it matter where this knowledge is obtained? We now use computers in our society, which allows us to do many things. In some cases in today’s society, children go through their entire education with computer. There is now cyber （網絡） schooling, where a child no longer attends school but learns at home in front of their computers. Should this, however, be the way students learn and become educated?
16.教育等級的劃分
段落大意：初級教育、中等教育、高等教育及成人教育的簡介。
Primary Education
Primary education includes preschool （學前的） and elementary （初級的, 基礎的） education. Preschool, or kindergarten, can last up to three years, with children entering as early as age three, until age six, when they typically enter elementary school. The academic year （學年） is divided into two semesters （學期）.
Secondary Education
Secondary education is divided into academic secondary education and specialized/vocational/technical （專科的/職業的/技術的） secondary education. Academic secondary education is delivered by academic lower and upper middle schools. Lower middle school graduates wishing to continue their education take a locally administered entrance exam（地區入學考試）, on the basis of which they will have the option either of continuing in an academic upper middle school or of entering a vocational secondary school. Vocational schools offer programs ranging from two to four years and train medium-level （中級的） skilled workers, farmers, and managerial（管理的） and technical personnel（人才）. Technical schools typically offer four-year programs to train intermediate technical personnel（中級技術人才）. “Schools for skilled workers”typically train junior middle school graduates for positions requiring production and operation skills. The length of training is typically three years.
Higher Education
Higher education at the undergraduate （本科） level includes two- and three-year junior colleges —sometimes also called short-cycle colleges （短期學院） —four-year colleges, and universities offering programs in both academic and vocational subjects. Many colleges and universities also offer graduate programs leading to the master’s or Ph.D. degree. Chinese higher education at the undergraduate level is divided into vocational and academic programs. Vocational programs are offered not only at short-cycle colleges, but also frequently at four-year colleges and universities. Academic programs are offered at four-year colleges and universities but do not always lead to the bachelor’s degree. Immense higher education opportunities also fall under （被歸入） the general category of adult education.
Adult Education
The adult education（成人教育） category overlaps all three of the above categories. Adult primary education includes workers’ primary schools（工人初級學校）, peasants’ primary schools （農民初級學校）, and literacy classes （識字班）. Adult secondary education includes radio/TV specialized secondary schools for cadres （幹部）, staff, workers and peasants. It includes in-service teacher training schools and correspondence （函授） specialized secondary schools as well. Adult higher education includes radio/TV universities, cadre institutes, workers’ colleges, peasants’ colleges, correspondence colleges, and educational colleges. Most of the above offer both two- and three-year short-cycle （or vocational） curricula, yet a few also offer regular undergraduate curricula.