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天天增分(十六) 满分48分，实战模拟，15分钟拿下高考客观题满分姓名：________班级：________ Ⅰ.阅读理解 A It's hot out. The usual midday thunderstorm has just passed, and a few kids hanging out on benches around the pool at Miami's Ransom Everglades School finally jump in and cool off. Eightyearold Gary Kendrick and the others are all here for swim lessons. “They told us to hold on to the wall and kick our feet and, like, move our arms，” Kendrick says. “When I had to swim to one of the counselors，I was really swimming. I do not even know I was moving. ” Kendrick doesn't have the technique of an Olympic swimmer，but he can make it to the side of a pool if he's pushed，falls in，or just wants to cool off. Kendrick is one of a handful of kids from South Miami to get free swim lessons at Ransom Everglades. “You know, we have populations of people who lack basic swim skills，” says Julie Gilchrist. “In swimming pools... presumably, you know where the bottom is, you know where the sides are，” she says. “And so one would think that with basic swim skills it should be difficult for an older child or teen to drown in a swimming pool. And yet that's what we were seeing among AfricanAmericans. ” Swimming pool drowning rates among schoolaged black children are more than five times higher than they are among white kids the same age. Why? There are many reasons，but one big one. “Kids who are living in public housing，growing up where finance is a real problem, singlemother households, opportunities for just having access to a pool are limited. ” | 
