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Big Break Grows in Popularity Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and un
Big Break Grows in Popularity Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and un
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2014-01-09
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Big Break Grows in Popularity
Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and university when some students earn money, travel, etc.) and a misty look will come into their eyes. There are some disasters and even the most motivated, organised gap student does require family back-up, financial, emotional and physical. The parental mistiness is not just about the brilliant experience that has matured their offspring; it is vicarious living. We all wish pre-university gap years had been the fashion in our day. We can see how much tougher our kids become; how much more prepared to benefit from university or to decide positively that they are going to do something other than a degree.
Gap years are fashionable, as is reflected in the huge growth in the number of charities and private companies offering them. Pictures of Prince William working hard in Chile have helped, but the trend has been gathering steam for a decade. The range of gap packages starts with backpacking, includes working with charities, building hospitals and schools and, very commonly, working as a language assistant, teaching English. With this trend, however, comes a danger. Once parents feel that a well-structured year is essential to their would be undergraduate’s progress to a better university, a good degree, an impressive resume and well paid employment, as the gap companies’ promotional statements suggest it might be, then parents will start organizing—and paying for the gaps.
Where there are disasters, according to Richard Oliver, director of the gap companies’ umbrella organization, the Year Out Group, it is usually because of poor planning. That can be the fault of the company or of the student, he says, but the best insurance is thoughtful preparation. "When people get it wrong, it is usually medical or, especially among girls, it is that they have not been away from home before or because expectation does not match reality."
The point of a gap year is that it should be the time when the school leaver gets to do the thing that he or she fancies. Kids don’t mature if mum and dad decide how they are going to mature. If the 18-year-old’s way of maturing is to loaf around on Hampstead Heath soaking up sunshine or spending a year working with fishermen in Cornwall, then that’s what will be productive for that person. The consensus, however, is that some structure is an advantage and that the prime mover needs to be the student.
The 18-year-old who was dispatched by his parents at two weeks’ notice to Canada to learn to be a snowboarding instructor at a cost of £ 5, 800, probably came back with little more than a hangover. The 18-year-old on the same package who worked for his fare and spent the rest of his year instructing in resorts from New Zealand to Switzerland, and came back to apply for university, is the positive counterbalance.
The word "packages" (Line 6. Para. 2) means______.
选项
A、parcels carried in travelling
B、a comprehensive set of activities
C、something presented in a particular way
D、charity actions
答案
B
解析
本题考查词义。词义的确定依赖上下文。上文中gap一词多次出现,指“学业间断”,下文提到一系列活动,即背包旅行、和慈善团体一起工作、修建医院和学校、做语言助教。因此packages指学业间断期问学生从事的多种活动。[D]项没有包括所有的活动,应选[B]项。
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