2020年高考英语外刊时事做阅读理解：补课成为新常态 Tutoring a New Normal（含答案）

Tutoring a New Normal 补课成为新常态 It's not piano lessons or dance classes. Nowadays, the biggest extracurricular activity in the West is going to a tutor. “I spend about 800 [Canadian] dollars a month on tutors. It’s costly,” says Pat, a mother in Canada. However, she adds,“After finding out half my daughter’s class had tutors, I felt like my child was going to fall behind because everyone else seemed to be ahead.” Shelley, a mother of three, also has tutors constantly coming in and out of her home.“When I used to sit down with my children, it was hard to get them focused. I was always yelling. When I got a tutor once a week, they became focused for one entire hour and could get most of their homework done.” Tutoring isn’t simply a private school phenomenon. Nor is it geared only toward lower-achieving students. In Canada alone, seven percent of high school students reported using a tutor in 2010. That increased to 15 percent in five years. Overall, parents hire tutors because they are wor