Unit 4 Cyberspace Ⅰ.完形填空 It was in the past two years that Aaron Segura was always sinking at West Mesa High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 16yearold student was__1__in golf, but his__2__was another matter. Aaron was “just walking through the chapters hard” in courses like chemistry, his grades were low, and he was__3__to dropping out. It was not that Aaron didn't have__4__;it simply didn't exist in his large, impersonal public high school. Then his mother heard about Albuquerque's Charter Vocational High School(特立职业高中), a place where students__5__plenty of oneonone attention. Something else__6__Aaron even more. His one strong goal was to go into__7__, and Charter Vocational had just the thing for him: an architectural CAD(computeraided drafting) program. Aaron__8__the school at the beginning of his junior year. For the first time, he__9__himself excited about learning. By the following summer, he had got a(n)__10__as a draftsman for an architectural firm. His plan was to__11__drafting professionally after he graduated. If Aaron has anyone to thank for his__12__of the fortune, it was Danny Moon, a longtime industrial arts teacher. Moon__13__a vocational apprenticeship(学徒) program in the mid1990s,__14__the Albuquerque school district couldn't pay for any longer. But two years later, in 2000, Moon's phone rang. The state had recently__15__a charter school law, and a district official wondered if Moon might be__16__in opening a vocational charter school. An easy__17__. With this sort of instruction, Moon knew he could__18__students like Aaron,who might have a__19__time in traditional high schools. He'd also be filling an increasing__20__ across New Mexico for skilled labor. |