【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文]1-10 I've never believed that the only way to get an education is to sit at a desk with four walls around you. The world is our classroom and our home, a41-foot sailing boat, takes us there. My husband and I dreamed of sailing around the world before our daughters were even born. Their arrivals only increased our desire to live the cruising lifestyle, a way of life that has given us the opportunity for lots of quality and quantity family time. Educating our two daughters, while living afloat on our sailing boat, has added a wonderful new dimension to our lives. We started out years ago with a kindergarten correspondence course for our daughter Cathy. It's what most cruising families use, but as Cathy zoomed through the entire year's course in a matter of two months, we realize that a prepackaged school was not what she needed. Cathy's gilled mind needed to be challenged, excited, sent into orbit. We devised our own curriculum fur the rest of the year. Choosing courses of study for Cathy was great fun. We looked at where we would be sailing to during the school year, or where we would be stopping to work, and all sorts of topics of interest presented themselves. For example, While cruising down the East Coast to Florida, we chose space exploration for a unit of study. Our studies included both fictional and non-fictional reading, experiments and writing assignments. The finale was watching a shuttle launch and visiting the Kennedy Space Center museums. We do miss out on a few things that most home-schooled children are able to take advantage of and which would perhaps make our academic life easier. Our home afloat is small. School is held on a small dining table and it's difficult to leave artwork, science experiments or projects "until later". We also have limited room for school books and so those we have must be chosen carefully. Perhaps the thing we miss the most when traveling is not always having access to a library. We hope to upgrade our notebook computer to one with CD-ROM soon. Imagine having resources like encyclopedias and atlases all in a small enough format to fit on the boat. But the advantages of our floating school far outweigh any disadvantages. Part of the reason we cruise is for the wonderful opportunities to learn about the world around us. Hands-on learning experiences we get from hiking through a rain forest, snorkeling over a coral reef, visiting historic ruins, shopping in foreign markets or participating in local festivals are an important part of our schooling. [解析] 听力材料一开始就提到她不认为坐在教室里学习是接受教育的唯一途径。“世界就是我们的教室，而我们的家是一艘41英尺的航船，带我们了解了世界”。“I've never believed that the only way to get an education is to sit at a desk with four walls around you．The world is our classroom and our home，a 41-foot sailing boat，takes us there．”因此可以看出，作者为女儿采取家庭教育的方式并非是因为他们住在一艘航船上而迫不得以的行为。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查细节。听力材料中提到“My husband and I dreamed of sailing around the world before our daughters were even born。”环游世界是她跟丈夫在女儿出世前就有的梦想。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 听力材料提到“…as Cathy zoomed through the entire year's course in a matter of two months，we realize that a pre-packaged school was not what she needed．Cathy's gifted mind needed to be challenged，excited，sent into orbit．”从中可以看出她的女儿很聪明，在两个月的时间内就学完了整年的课程，因此她极有天赋的头脑需要比同龄人更加具有挑战性的课程。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 听力材料提到“We also have limited room for school books and so those we have must be chosen carefully．”因为空间有限，所以只能谨慎选择有限的书，因此There were plenty of books是错误的，but no encyclopedias and atlases on their boat．是正确的，因为听力材料中提到“Imagine having resources like encyclopedias and atlases all in a small enough format to fit on the boat”。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 听力材料的确是提到了visit the Kennedy Space Center in Florida，但是这对夫妇选择让女儿学习太空探索的目的并非如此。听力材料中“We looked at where we would be sailing to during the school year，or where we would be stopping to work，and all sorts of topics of interest presented themselves．”他们是根据航行到达地点和展现的有趣话题来选择课程安排的。Horida 的 space exploration是一个例证，这个单元包括很多方面和形式，visiting the Kennedy Space Center museums只是最后的过程之一。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] Cathy的经历跟大多数其他的受家庭教育孩子是不同的。因为一方面他们并没有严格按照函授课程执行，而是根据孩子的能力自行设计了课程，另一方面是因为他们环游世界，亲自实践去了解世界“to learn about the world around us”，这构成了他们教育的重要部分。材料中也提到“We do miss on a few things that most home-schooled children are able to take advantage of”，这都说明Cathy的经历并非是典型的家庭教育孩子经历。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 听力材料最后提到了Cathy学习经历的优势。“the wonderful opportunities to learn about the world around us”，并列举了若干的实例，这些都是学校里的孩子所无法亲身接触的。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查推理判断。根据听力材料内容可以得知Cathy的学习内容是跟她们家航行的地点有关的。但并非就是随意学习的，而是选择“all sorts of topics of interest presented themselves”。从给的在航行到 Florida进行的课程设计可以看出，她们的学习是有合理的课程计划的。

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查推理判断。材料提到“Choosing courses of study was great fun．”她们的课程是interesting，但从给的在航行到Florida进行的课程设计可以看出，她们的学习是有合理的课程计划的，所以并非是 unsystematic。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查主旨大意。材料一开始就提到她不认为坐在教室里学习是接受教育的唯一途径。“I've never believed that the only way to get an education is to sit at a desk with four walls around you。”中间指出了 Cathy学习经历跟其他接受家庭教育的孩子的不同，最后点明“the advantages of our floating school”，可以看出这种学习方式是比较有效的。