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With its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and blue waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England’s southern coast. We
With its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and blue waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England’s southern coast. We
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With its sandy beaches, picturesque ruins and blue waters, the Isle of Wight is an idyllic spot off England’s southern coast. Wealthy Londoners sail their boats there. It seems odd that such a place should contain some of the worst-performing schools in England. But it does; and in this, the Isle of Wight is not quite as strange as it seems.
Provisional figures show that in 2013 just 49% of 16-year-olds on the island got at least five C grades, including in English and maths, in GCSE exams. That is fewer than in any of London’s 32 boroughs, or indeed anywhere in the southern half of England apart from nearby Portsmouth. In the previous year the Isle of Wight was second to bottom in the whole country. Just 23% of pupils entitled to free school meals got five decent grades, compared with a national average of 36%. In September the island’s schools were deemed so bad that Hampshire County Council took them over.
Part of the explanation is distinctively local. Luring good teachers to an out-of-the-way spot is hard. In 2011 the island endured a muddled transition from the sort of three-tier school system common in America, with primary, middle and secondary schools, to the two-tier one that is standard in England. But its results were bad even before that change.
The Isle of Wight’s real problems are structural. It suffers from three things that might appear to be advantages but are actually the opposite. The island lacks a large city; it has some, but not many, poor children; and it is almost entirely white.
But these days pupils, including poor ones, often fare better in inner cities than elsewhere. In Tower Hamlets, an east London borough that is the third most deprived place in England, children entitled to free school meals do better in GCSE exams than do all children in the country as a whole. Bangladeshis, who are concentrated in that borough, used to perform considerably worse than whites nationally; now they do better.
The beaches, ruins and waters are mentioned to______.
选项
A、reveal rich Londoners’ life
B、present typical English lifestyle
C、introduce the topic of bad schools
D、show a tourist attraction in England
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的beaches,ruins and waters定位到第一段。文章刚开始描绘了theIsle of Wight的美好风景,然后提到这么一句:It seems odd that such a place should contain someof the worst—performing schools in England.而文章从第二段开始讨论的话题便是围绕着英国的学校在进行,可见文章描述这些风景的目的是为了引出主题,即选项[C]为答案。
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