I. Comprensión.Marta wants to be a "host sister" to a foreign student. She contacts the director of the student-exchange program, who asks her a few questions about her interests and weekend activities. Listen to the conversation and complete the following form based on what you hear. Nombre: Marta GranadosTeléfono 546-73-90
Ocupación: ________________
What will be an ideal response?
estudiante (de arte)
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¿Cuál artículo?You and Beatriz are talking about the different things and people in your Spanish class. Select the article that best completes each sentence. If one is not needed, select the X.? Hay ____ lápices en la mesa.?
A. ?los B. ?unos C. ?unas
Los pasajeros no necesitan identificación para subir al avión.
What will be an ideal response?
Write complete sentences indicating which of the persons in column B owns the items in column A, using the present tense of essere. Make any necessary changes.
A televisore due bici computer motorino cellulare quindici CD zaino orologi dieci foto radio B Francesco Giulia e Anna Mario e Laura Paolo Franco Maurizio Alessandro Rosalba e Aldo Alberto Adriana 1. ______________________________________________________________________ 2. ______________________________________________________________________ 3. ______________________________________________________________________ 4. ______________________________________________________________________ 5. ______________________________________________________________________ 6. ______________________________________________________________________ 7. ______________________________________________________________________ 8. ______________________________________________________________________ 9. ______________________________________________________________________ 10. _____________________________________________________________________
Many people believe that private schools have more successful educational outcomes that do public schools, due to less bureaucracy, more family involvement, smaller classes, and students' backgrounds. Families who send their children to private school must pay both tuition and school taxes for public schools. There was much political pressure, beginning in the 1970s in various states, to give
public financial support to private schools. One mechanism is the voucher—a coupon in the amount the school district normally spends on an individual child's education—to be "spent" at whatever school the family chooses, public or private. The argument is that in a free-market system private schools should have as much right as public schools to be supported by the government and that the best schools will attract more students, thereby thriving, while the worst schools will improve to attract "customers." The voucher system came under legal scrutiny in a court case in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1997, when the system was declared unconstitutional because of inappropriate church-state separation; most of the vouchers (public money) were being used for religious schools. However, the concept of vouchers as a school choice option is still viable, as evidenced by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which tries to balance flexibility with accountability in schools receiving federal funds under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The act grants parents certain rights, such as to inspect instructional material and assessments; it provides guidelines for school choice and vouchers, and for school prayer; and it stipulates requirements for funding school improvements, teacher qualifications, and testing. In the second paragraph, the word scrutiny means a. approval. b. organization. c. acceptance. d. close examination.