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(1) If your teenager is talking about taking a year away from the classroom b
(1) If your teenager is talking about taking a year away from the classroom b
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(1) If your teenager is talking about taking a year away from the classroom between high school and college, you may have Malia Obama to thank for that. But if they’re not yet talking about whether to follow her lead, they should be.
(2) Taking time off between high school and college or sometime during the undergraduate years, as Malia Obama is doing before she attends Harvard University, has plenty of appeal for high school graduates who don’t know what they want out of college or seek to work, travel or volunteer on the sort of schedule mat an academic calendar does not allow.
(3) Parents, however, often worry memselves sick over such talk. While no one wants to drop a six-figure sum on a teenager who doesn’t want to be in school, there are often nagging doubts over whether students who stop for a bit will ultimately get back on track.
(4) Twenty-five years ago, my friend Colin Hall and I tried to dispel those concerns by finding and interviewing as many students who took gap years as we could. We profiled 33 of them in a book called Taking Time Off, which was published 20 years ago.
(5) This summer, after news of Malia Obama’s choice, I tracked down everyone from the book to see what had become of them. Was their gap year ultimately incidental to their lives, or did it help them grow into the person they were meant to become? And for those who now had children, how would they react if their offspring wanted to take a gap year?
(6) Families seeking data on gap years won’t find much. Part of the problem is that federal data on college delay and completion don’t measure all the reasons people started college late. While some people make a deliberate choice to delay college to serve in the military, work or travel, others meander for a few years before deciding to try college after all.
(7) A number of researchers have shown a connection between a deliberate choice to take some time off and getting better grades upon return to the classroom. Dr Devin G Pope, a professor of behavioural science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, saw the link among people who had served at a Mormon mission. Dr Bob Clagett, a former dean of admissions at Middlebury College in Vermont, saw similar results when he helped inspire number-crunching among students there and at the University of North Carolina.
(8) Once college is over, however, we enter the realm of anecdotal evidence when it comes to first jobs. Parents worry that if their children take a gap year, they will appear wayward to employers, which may have more to do with the term than how that year was spent.
(9) "It suggests a hole," said Ms Abigail Falik, founder of Global Citizen Year, which has 115 people working in four countries. She prefers the term bridge year, with its implication of a deliberate connection between one stage of life and the next.
(10) In fact, logic would suggest that many people who take a gap year get better jobs after college than people who don’t. If you were hiring entry-level employees, wouldn’t you rather employ the risk-taking 23-year-olds who found their way in the world for a while than the 22-year-olds who have not done much besides going to school?
(11) There is no way to know for sure except by asking some of the people who have had the experience. Ms Susie Steele took time off from the University of Vermont to teach disabled people to ski and eventually landed a plum full-time job at the Keystone Science School in Keystone, Colorado. Now a middle-school biology teacher in Louisville, Colorado, Ms Steele, 44, figures her odds would have been quite long without the gap year.
(12) Ms Akiima Price took a break from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to work with the Student Conservation Association in Nevada. The organisation eventually hired her full time, and she has forged a career in and around environmental education and community work.
(13) " Now, looking back on my resume, all of the dots ended up connecting," said Ms Price, 44, who lives in Washington. "I would tell younger Akiima to trust the process. "
(14) Parents would be wise to adopt that mantra, too, and not just because tens of thousands of tuition dollars may go to waste if a college student has a burning desire to be elsewhere. Even if a gap year does not lead to a job offer and an obvious career track, it can light a spark that ends up burning in a different way many years later.
(15) Mr. Cory Mason spent his gap year as a project manager for Habitat for Humanity in Savannah, Georgia. Today, he’s a Wisconsin state representative who calls on his experience quite often, even if he doesn’t pick up a hammer much these days. "It wasn’t just about housing but more about poverty and how hard it is for working people who still make poverty wages to move into the middle class," he said. " It gave me as much of a lesson on that as it did on how to frame a house or put shingles on a roof. " (16) Mr. Mason earned room, board and a tiny stipend during his gap year. And plenty of revenue-neutral or moneymaking gap year experiences are available, despite the phenomenon’s reputation as a sort of rich kid’s layabout. Still, some educators question whether there isn’t some class privilege at work here.
(17) Mr. Chad Hammett, who took three semesters off from the University of Texas, now teaches English at Texas State University. He figures that maybe a quarter of the students he encounters would have been better served by a gap year, but he worries about the momentum of the students he sees who are the first in their families to go to college. " This may be their one chance, and any kind of delay would be admitting that they’re not ready and don’t belong," he said.
(18) For others, however, a year in between was just the thing they needed. Ms Celia Quezada was a first-generation college student and spent a year in Belgium in a Rotary program before beginning her freshman year at Williams College. "Had I not done the exchange program, I would have dropped out just from the culture shock," she said. [br] According to the passage, which of the following statements is CORRECT?
选项
A、Mr. Mason still undertakes the work related to construction at present.
B、Mr. Mason got nothing but accommodation during his gap year.
C、Mr. Hammett believes all the students should take a gap year.
D、Mr. Hammett considers some students will reject taking a gap year.
答案
D
解析
细节题。文章第十七段最后两句提到,Mr.Hammett担心那些是家中首个大学生的学生对经历间隔年没有太大动力。因为“这可能是他们上大学的唯一机会,任何拖延都会被认为是自己还没准备好,或不适合上大学”;由此可知,这些学生将不会去体验间隔年,故[D]为答案。第十五段提到,Mr.Mason如今是威斯康星州众议员,现在他很少拿起锤子干活,由此可知,他不再从事与建筑相关的工作,故排除[A];第十六段提到,Mr.Mason在间隔年的项目中除了获得了食宿,还得到了一点奖学金,故排除[B];第十七段提到,Mr.Hammett说自己遇见的学生中约有四分之一更适合去体验间隔年,而并不是[C]所说的所有人,故排除[C]。
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