【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文] 26-28
Many young people in the United States never finish high school. Exactly how many drop out is another issue. Recent studies of dropout rates have conflicting results. For one thing, schools define and measure their dropout rates differently. Some researchers say about fifteen to twenty percent of public school students do not complete their education. But many other experts and policymakers believe that for the past twenty years, the dropout rate has been around thirty percent.
(26) For Latino and black students, the numbers are even higher. Researchers say almost half of them leave school. (27) At the same time, almost half the states let students leave school before the age of eighteen without informing their parents. Finding a good job without a high school education is more and more difficult. A Northeastern University study in 2002 found that almost half of all dropouts from sixteen to twenty-four did not have a job. The lack of a high school education can also lead to other problems. An estimated two-thirds of prisoners in the United States dropped out of high school.
Recent studies have shown that the majority of students who drop out do not do it because they are failing. (28) Many are bored with their classes or feel disconnected from their school and teachers. Some students feel that educators place low expectations on them. Teenager pregnancies also aggravate the dropout problem.
26. What kind of students have higher dropout rates by the researchers?
[一点即通] 该问题的关键在于第二段的 For Latino and black students, the numbers are even higher，因此可以知道这两类学生的辍学率要更高，而且根据下文信息可知一半以上都辍学了。故选A)项。
[未听先知] 根据选项中的students，educator，bored with their classes，Teenager pregnancies等信息，可以推断本短文可能与学校生活，而且与问题学生有关。