【正文】 afford to study for three years at IESA and pay €6,950 per year. Open Classrooms lets you work and study at the same time and pay a lot less. Sure, it‘s probably a less enjoyable experience than going to your school and spending time with other students and teachers, but it makes sense for some students. It‘s an interesting new direction for Open Classrooms, and I can‘t wait to see whether other schools will start working with the pany to provide online courses. It will be interesting to see whether the first students are satisfied with this kind of degree as well. 28. If you plete the degree program offered by Open Classrooms, ______. A. you can skip classes that you are not interested in B. you can get a degree in about two years C. you need to meet a teacher once every month D. you can get a staterecognized degree in France 29. How can students benefit from the degree program, according to the article? A. They pay much less money to get a degree. B. They study their courses in a more enjoyable way. C. They don‘t have to spend time with other students and teachers. D. They are free to choose the courses and projects they take in order to get the degree. 30. What is the author‘s attitude toward the OpenClassrooms degree program? A. Upset. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Critical. 31. What is the main theme of the article? A. The benefits of an Open Classrooms program. B. The reasons behind the popularity of MOOCs. C. Some tips on how to choose an Open Classrooms program. D. The difficulties of keeping up with online courses. D British parents encourage their children to play musical instruments as part of a family tradition and not to raise their social status as Americans do, research says. Dr. Aaron Reeves of the University of Oxford found that UK parents did not see musical achievement by their children as character building or useful in getting university places or jobs. Instead, it was usually only those parents who played instruments that encouraged their children to follow suit. This contrasted with research carried out by other academics in America, he said. ―Middleclass parents in the US appear to associate cultural practice with other benefits, such as developing specific characteristics and paving the way for educational success. Middleclass families are often marked by a pattern of ?concerted cultivation‘, where parents anize musiccentered activities for their children, often in addition to schoolbased musical practice.‖ Researchers had owed this to parental anxiety over the declining fortunes of educated Americans. These parents have bee increasingly worried about providing their children with skills and abilities enabling them to stand out from their pe titors in the job market. By contrast, for British respondents, no such connection was made between what is considered as an overbearing parenting style and future educational or career possibilities. The parents interviewed here did not connect music with usefulness but rather they focused on the value of music as a family tradition and, to a lesser extent, as something valuable in its own right. One Scottish parent, a chemist by profession, said during the interviews, ―We‘ve got two learning musical instruments. If we think it‘s worthwhile, we try and encourage them, but we wouldn‘t force them.‖ A housewife said, ―My son‘s just turned five and I want him to do the guitar because his uncle does it, but it‘s up to him.‖ In some UK families, said Dr. Reeves, ―music was even believed to be an obstacle to educational success, or at least secondary to it.‖ 32. What do British parents think of music learning? A. Useful for job application. B. Helpful for character building. C. Beneficial to further education. D. Worthwhile as a family tradition. 33. What does the underlined word ―this‖ in Paragraph 4 refer to? A. Cultural practice. B. Educational success. C. Concerted cultivation. D. Schoolbased musical practice. 34. What can be inferred from the text? A. The future of American kids is not promising. B. American parents hardly link music with success. C. Music learning is a personal choice for British kids. D. British parents show little concern about education. 35. What is the text mainly about? A. Reasons for British music preference. B. British and American parenting styles in music education. C. Americans‘ attitude towards music learning. D. 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