时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(上)-社会广角


英语课

 



By Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: Feb 6, 2003


This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Today we continue our series for foreign students who want to study in the United States. We tell about an American college for students with learning 1 problems.
It is Landmark 2 College in the northeastern state of Vermont. It was started in nineteen-eighty-four by an expert in educating people who suffer learning disabilities.
People with learning disabilities often cannot think about just one thing for any period of time. Nor can they sit without moving for more than a few minutes. These and other problems interfere 3 with their learning in school. It is difficult for them to complete their education. Many experts believe that learning disabilities are caused by chemical problems in the brain. Whatever the cause, officials at Landmark College say they can help.
Landmark College prepares students to continue their education successfully at other colleges. Officials say ninety percent of the students go on to other schools after they finish at Landmark. Students may study at Landmark for one, two or three years. Or they may take summer classes only.
The teaching 4 at Landmark is different from teaching at other colleges. Teachers use methods planned especially for the students. For example, they may divide a large task into many small ones. Students learn each one, then put them together as a whole.
Classes at Landmark are small. There are between eight and twelve students in each class. The college develops an education plan for each student. And each student has one special teacher who helps him or her study.
This individual2 supervision 5 is costly 6. A student pays almost forty-thousand dollars a year to attend Landmark College. This includes the cost of food and living at the school. Students may ask to be considered for financial help.
Three-hundred-sixty students attend Landmark College. This includes students from about twelve foreign countries. The college offers English classes and other services for international students. You can get more information about Landmark College by using a computer. The Internet address is w-w-w dot l-a-n-d-m-a-r-k-c-o-l-l-e-g-e dot o-r-g. (www.landmarkcollege.org)
Or you can write to the Admissions 7 Office, Landmark College, River Road South, Putney, Vermont, zero-five-three-four-six, U-S-A.


1. disability [7dIsE5bIlItI] n. 无力, 无能, 残疾
2. individual [7IndI5vIdjuEl] adj. 个别的, 单独的, 个人的



n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰
  • If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话,可能弊多利少。
  • When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件,棘手的事情就来了。
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
n.监督,管理
  • The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
  • The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
n.准许进入( admission的名词复数 );入场费;入场券;承认
  • a need-blind admissions policy 不考虑经济能力的录取政策
  • He's the Dean of Admissions for the University of Michigan. 他是Michigan大学的新生注册主任。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
a balcony
actigraphically
acute radiation exposure
alert level
atomic-absorption spectrophotometer
back draft
besoothed
betake oneself to flight
biological augmentation
black mild steel flat head tinmen rivet
block output
Brixworth
cabbage caterpillar
Canadian red pine
canary-bird flower
capital adjustment
cartegena
chemical cistern
chronic injury
commercial storage and transport
communication systems performance
constructed product
Corydalis tomentella
create employment
credit extension decisions
critical height of center of gravity
dirth
do sb in the eye
double bassist
dunlap
dust mop
elevation drive gear
euptelea polyandra s.et z.
eye glass
eyere
fissible material
flexibler
flower of a fruit-bearing plant
free paraffin chains
fructofuranosan
Glutestere
gownlike
Group of Eight
Gualeguay
heliophile
HFRS
hold communion with oneself
ice-strengthening propeller
infectious catarrh
ingentility
jam recovery page counter
kebret
Kelvin guard-ring capacitor
lens field illumination
leptoxenus bimaculata
lyguss
mud agitator
Nova Mambone
numerical solution of integral equation
offshore soil mechanics
open bond
optic aphasia
orbless
Otway
overpotting
Panax sessiliflorus
phonic motor
phosphites
planifrons
polymerisates
premium on repayment
primary beneficiary
pulmonary pigmentation
punctuated-equilibrium model
record access block
redox titration
refreshingly
reliability apportionment
reserve sprout forest
resin jalap
retinol-binding
run messages for someone
scalebar
selling plate
several years
shut-down switch
simulated air combat
slipping the tow line
socket rosette
spalled
spring-tine harrow
squareness gauge
stigm-
take one's foot in one's one's feet in one's hands
thriftlessnesses
time-of-arrival
undisturbed one output
United States message text format
unvoting
weathercoat
woderofe
written in water