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经济学人：中国乡村教育

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篇章总览

来源：本文来自经济学人2017.4.15.

主要内容：中国乡村教育现状。

语言特点：中国特色表达；高频中等词汇；写作亮点短语；固定搭配短语；熟词僻义。Rural education in China ：Separate and unequal

Last year some images spread on the internet in China. They showed children descending an 800-metre (2,600-foot) rock face on rickety ladders made of vines, wood and rusty metal. Their destination: school. The photographer was told by a local official that "seven or eight" people had died after losing their grip. Yet the children did this regularly—there is no school at the top of the mountain in Sichuan province where they live. The photographs conveyed two striking aspects of life in the Chinese countryside: a hunger for education so strong that children will risk their lives for it, and a lack of government attention to the needs of rural students.

In many ways, education in China is improving. Since 2000 the annual tally of students graduating from university has increased nearly eightfold, to more than 7.5 million. But many rural students are neglected by China's school system, and they are not the only ones. So too are the children of migrants who have moved to the cities from the countryside and poor students who want to go to senior high school.

This is not only unfair; it is also counterproductive. China faces a demographic crunch: its workforce is shrinking and it can no longer depend on cheap, low-skilled migrant labour to

power its growth. Its young—especially those with rural roots—need to become more skilled. That calls for better education. The government has not been completely blind to the need to ensure that rural people have enough schooling to work in factories, but it has shown little sense of urgency. The schoolchildren from Sichuan are a case in point. So perilous was their journey to school that officials arranged for them to board, like tens of millions of children in rural China. They travel back home only every few weeks.

That may sound like progress. Since the population of young people in the countryside is falling, smaller schools are closing. Better to board than to trek for miles every day to one that is still open.

背景介绍：

四川凉山彝族自治州昭觉县支尔莫乡阿土勒尔村，是一座名副其实的“悬崖村”，72户人家居住在这里，小孩子要上学就必须爬这个藤梯。孩子们需要扶着藤梯爬过一段800米（半英里）的绝壁，才能到达学校。这段2小时的旅途是如此令人揪心，他们每月只能回家两次。词汇详解

第一段词汇