单选题 Home-schooling is on the rise in recent years all over America. So there is certainly an ideological (意识形态的)edge to many home-schoolers. But do not be misled. First, this is a bottom-up movement with parents of whatever political stripe making individual decisions to withdraw their children rather than following orders from higher up. Second, the movement has a utilitarian (功利主义的) edge.
Home-schoolers simply believe that they can offer their children better education at home. One-to-one tuition, goes the argument, enables children to go at their own pace, rather than at a pace set for the convenience of teaching unions. And children can be taught "proper" subjects based on the Judeo-Christian tradition of learning, rather than politically correct flimflam (胡说). This sounds backward-looking, but home-schoolers claim that technology is on their side. The internet is making it ever easier to teach people at home, ever more teaching materials are available, and virtual communities now exist that allow home-schoolers to interchange information.
The other factor working in home-schooling's favor is its own success. Many parents have been nervous about home-schooled children being isolated. With almost every town in America now boasting its own home-schooling network, that worry declines. Home-schooled children can play baseball with other home-schooled children; they can go on school trips; and so on.
What about academic standards? The home-schooling network buzzes with good news: a family with three home-schooled children at Harvard; a home-schooler with a bestselling novel; first, second and third place in the 2000 National Spelling Bee; a first university for home-schooled children. Systematic evidence is more difficult to find.
There are certainly signs that home-schoolers are thriving. One recent survey by the HSLDA showed that three-quarters of home-educated adults aged 18-24 have taken college-level courses compared with 46% of the general population. But this is hardly conclusive. Home-schoolers do not have to report bad results. Moreover, home-schoolers may simply come from the more educated part of the population.
Yet these arguments point to change in the way the debate is unfolding. It is no longer about whether home-schooled children are losing out, but whether they are doing unfairly well. "Maybe we should subcontract all of public education to home-schoolers," Bill Bennett, Mr. Reagan's education secretary, once made fun of it. That looks unlikely. But America's home-schoolers represent an attack on public education that teachers everywhere should pay attention to.

单选题 The number of children taught at home is rising, because more and more parents______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的rising定位到原文首段首句Home-schooling is on the rise in recent years all over America。
[精析] 原文首段定位句下文解释说，首先，这是一个自下而上的运动，不论家长的政治派别是什么，他们自主决定把孩子放在家里教育，而不是听从上面的命令这样做。这说明在家学习的学生越来越多的原因不是家长受别人逼迫，而是他们乐意自己教育孩子。故C)“越来越多的家长乐意自己教育自己的孩子”与之相符，为正确答案。
[排除干扰] A)“越来越多的家长受到更好的教育”，下文说可能存在这样的情况，但只是推测；B)“越来越多的家长辞职以教育自己的孩子”和D)“越来越多的家长担心自己的孩子会受校园犯罪灼伤害”在原文均没有涉及，故都排除。
单选题 Why do many home-schoolers' parents believe that public education is inferior?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的public education is inferior定位到原文第二段首句Home-schoolers simply believe that they can offer their children better education at home.
[精析] 原文第二段提到家长认为一对一的教学有两个好处，其一是让孩子可以按照自己的速度学习；其二是可以设定合理的科目，而不是教授孩子政治上的浅薄谎言。D)“社会学校经常教授孩子太多的无意义的政治性东西”与原文相符。
[排除干扰] A)“社会学校考虑每个孩子的学习速度”与原文意思相反，原文中“考虑每个孩子的学习速度”是家庭教育的特点，故排除；B)关于收费的含义原文没有涉及，故排除；C)“学校不能给每个孩子足够的学习材料”，原文是说家庭式教育技术的可能性之一是能比以往获得更多的学习材料，而不是说学校学习材料不足，故排除。
单选题 Parents stop being too concerned with the possible isolation of their home-schooled children when______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的isolation of their home-school children定位到原文第三段第二句Many parents have been nervous about home-schooled children being isolated.
[精析] 原文第三段提到：很多家长担心在家里学习的孩子会感到孤独，但是当美国各个城镇都鼓吹家庭教育网络时，家长放心了许多。后面提到在家里受教育的孩子可以一起打棒球、旅行等。这些都是有组织的活动。因此就不再过于担心孩子的孤独问题了，故A)“有组织的活动也对在家上学的孩子开放”正确。
[排除干扰] 由原文第二段可推知B)“虚拟社区使得信息交流成为可能”和C)“互联网提供了最新的资料”为家长主张家庭教育的论据，与题干不符；D)“家长可以在家待更长的时间”为主观性推理，但是在原文并非提及，故排除。
单选题 We can learn from the text that______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的learn from the text 以及四个选项提示可以定位到原文第四段细节部分。
[精析] 原文第四段提供了很多证据说明在家受教育的学生在有些方面很突出，但是最后一句说还很难找到系统的证据，可以推测这不是普遍现象，而是个例。故B)“一些在家受教育的学生在某些领域比公立学校学生强”与原文相符，为正确答案。
[排除干扰] A)“大部分受学校教育的学生不如受家庭教育的学生”说法绝对化，与原文不符；C)“在美国家庭教育将最终取代学校教育”是对原文做出的主观推测，原文没有提及；原文并没有对两种教育下的孩子的未来进行对比，故D)“在家上学的孩子比在学校的孩子的未来更有希望”与原文不符。
单选题 The author suggests at the end of the passage that______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中the end of the passage 定位到原文末段末句But America's home-schoolers represent an attack on public education that teachers everywhere should pay attention to.
[精析] 原文末尾一句由but引导的句子说“但是美国主张在家里上学的人士代表了对公共教育的一次攻击，这是必须引起所有教师的注意的”。由此可以推测D)“家庭教育已经构成对公共教育体制的小小的威胁”正确。
[排除干扰] A)“受家庭教育者获得更多的社会成就是不公平的”，该内容并未在原文没有涉及；B)“家庭教育很快能够彻底取代正式教育”引申自作者引用的Bill Bennett 的观点，但该观点在原文中含有正话反说的讽刺意味；C)“学校教师应该辞职去作私人家教”在原文没有涉及；故均可排除。