Some American high schools are for students with special interests, like science or the arts. New York City even has a program for those interested in the food service industry, called Food and Finance High School.

New York also has what are called international high schools, or internationals, for immigrant students. They must be new learners of English who have been in the United States less than four years. The first school opened in nineteen eighty-five. The city will begin the new term next month with ten.

New York works with a nonprofit organization, the Internationals Network for Public Schools. Support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped the network expand. The network says the graduation rate was seventy percent last year in the four New York schools open long enough to have graduating classes. That, compared with twenty-three percent for English language learners in all of the city schools.

Over all, New York officials recently reported that the city’s four-year graduation rate, reached fifty-two percent last year. At the same time, they reported that the city’s dropout rate fell below fifteen percent. The Internationals Network says its schools have an average dropout rate of just five percent.

Claire Sylvan is the executive director of the group. She says students drop out mainly because their families need them to work or because parents arrange marriages for girls.

The Internationals Network mainly helps find teachers and trains them in the teaching method of the internationals. Claire Sylvan says the teaching approach is to have students use their different strengths to help each other. They work in small groups, but she says they are not grouped by ability. She says the students discuss issues, then produce a product like a paper, a play, a poster or a report. They learn English as they work.

1.The international high school in New York is __________

A. for immigrant students with special interests

B. for new immigrant students who have been living in New York less than four years

C. for new learners of foreign language from around the world

D. for new young learners of English language living in the US less than four years

2.The international high schools in New York _______

A. have been opened for less than 20 years and set a good example

B. can bring great profit for the Internationals Network for Public Schools

C. will expand from having one school to having ten

D. have given great support to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

3.Which of the following shows the graduation rate of the schools of the International Networks last year in the four New York schools?

Graduation rateDropout and other

A B C D

4.One of the reasons why some students drop out of school is that _____.

A. their parents can’t afford to pay for the education

B. they have to help their parents with the work

C. girls are forced to make money for their families

D. they have trouble in passing all kinds of exams

5.Claire Sylvan would agree with all the following statements EXCEPT _____.

A. with the help of the network, the students can find right teachers.

B. students use their different strengths to help each other

C. students can be divided into different classes according to their ability

D. students can discuss with each other and finish their work by themselves

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