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The six-lane swimming pool in Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx has been dry for more than a decade. Within the New York
The six-lane swimming pool in Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx has been dry for more than a decade. Within the New York
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2021-02-21
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The six-lane swimming pool in Harry S. Truman High School in the Bronx has been dry for more than a decade. Within the New York City public school system, though, the troubled Truman pool represents a trend. Of the 50 swimming pools tucked inside the city’s 1,200 school buildings, 10 are in unusable condition.
For the swimming enthusiasts of the city public school system, the empty school pools are a sad spectacle, hollow symbols of lost opportunities: to combat obesity; to provide summer job training in a city that has had to import lifeguards from Europe in recent years; to lure that subset of students who just may love the water even if they hate everything else about high school. "Swimming kind of puts you in a different frame of mind—there’s noise and laughter, people feeling free and weightless," said Sana Q. Nasser, the principal of Truman. "Here we have a pool that needs a little bit to get it going, and to see it empty is heart-wrenching."
The latest version of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s $13.1 billion, five-year educational capital plan, to be announced in the coming weeks, will include $60 million for upgrades to a dozen school pools, including $7 million for Truman, $5 million for Walton and $4 million for King, said Steven W. Lawitts, senior vice president of the School Construction Authority. "These pools are going to be fixed," Mr. Lawitts said. But the school system’s capital plans have historically called for projects that never end up happening, among them the planned renovation of one of two pools at the George Washington High School campus, in Washington Heights.
"I would love it to be the case that kids could swim next year at Truman High School," said Eva S. Moskowitz, chairwoman of the City Council Education Committee, whose father swam on the Stuyvesant High School team. "People should not be fooled that simply because the pool repair is in the capital budget it will happen."
On the West Side of Manhattan, the alleged existence of a pool at Martin Luther King Jr. High School was such a mystery that it inspired an article in The Advocate, a student newspaper on campus. Appearing under the headline "Unlocking MLK’s Secrets," the article was accompanied by a photograph showing old furniture and a television set stacked next to the empty pool. At other schools, the situation is reversed. "The seniors would always tell the freshmen they could go find the pool on the fifth floor," said Adam Kerzner, a Bronx Science swimmer who graduated from the school—which has no fifth floor—in 1997. "It was kind of like a hazing thing." Swim teams representing all eight Staten Island high schools compete for practice time at Curtis High School, the borough’s only public school with a pool. "It’s hectic," said Jim Meraglia, Curtis’s athletic director.
[A] made the five-year educational capital plan with Michael R. Bloomberg.
[B] indicated that only one swimming pool was not enough for swim teams’ practice.
[C] said the Mayor was going to announce his educational capital plan in weeks.
[D] told his schoolmates that the swimming pool was on the fifth floor.
[E] thought swimming could help people relax their mind in a different mood.
[F] reminded people that the capital budget didn’t promise a real execution of pool repair.
[G] expressed his confusion about his school’s swimming pool.
Sana Q. Nasser
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答案
E
解析
Sana Q.Nasser出现第二段倒数第二句。该句提到Sana Q.Nasser对游泳的看法,他认为“游泳可以带给你不同的心境——游泳池里人们尽情喧闹玩笑,让人感到特别的轻松自在”。E项中的mood是原文frame of mind的同义表达,relax their mind是对文中feeling free and weightless的概括,故确定E为本题答案。
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