Meet the “Tutor Kings and Queens”
“If you want to be a top tutor, it definitely helps if you are young and attractive. Students look at your appearance，” said Kelly Mok, 26, a “tutor queen” at King's Glory, one of Hong Kong's largest tutorial establishments.
Richard Eng from Beacon College, a former secondary school teacher, is often credited with being the first of Hong Kong's “star tutors”. “In school all the teachers look the same, there's no excitement，” he said.
The celebrity tutor phenomenon is a result of the huge growth in outofschool tutoring in Asia. It is fuelled by highly pressured examination systems and ambitious parents wanting their children to secure places at top universities and highstatus secondary schools.
In societies where success is_equated_with good exam results, parental anxiety converts into a “steady stream of revenue(收入)” for tutoring establishments, according to a study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)．
The tutoring industry, or “shadow education” as the ADB calls it, has become very widespread in Asia, fed by the growth in universities and the rising proportion of school leavers aiming for university. Hong Kong University's professor Mark Bray, one of the authors of the ADB study, said a staggering 72% of finalyear school students in Hong Kong now go to private tutors.
It's not just Hong Kong. Tutoring has “spread and intensified(强化) in Asia and become more commercialized，” said Professor Bray. In South Korea, 90% of primary school children attend such classes. In China, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year. In South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, tutorial schools use star tutors to attract even more students.
小题1:According to Kelly Mok, tutors ________.
A．have a lot in common with school teachers
B．benefit much from their appearances
C．become more and more popular in the world
D．have much more pressure than in the past小题2:Who is probably a “tutor king” in Hong Kong?
A．Kelly Mok.
B．Richard Eng.
C．Mark Bray.
D．Not mentioned.小题3:What Professor Bray says in this passage means that ________.
A．the number of school leavers is increasing
B．tutoring may improve achievement for individual students
C．star tutors have attracted 2.4 million students
D．more and more students in Asia go to private tutors小题4:The underlined part in Paragraph 4 is similar in meaning to ________.
A．is equal to
B．leads to
C．results in
D．is different from小题5:Where is this passage probably taken from?
A．An English newspaper.
B．A travel guide.
C．A fashion magazine.
D．A physics book.
小题1:B
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:A
小题5:A
本文主要叙述了在亚洲一些国家，应试教育的压力以及父母期望孩子上名牌大学的心理是促使课外辅导越来越流行和商业化的原因，文中也介绍了一些明星辅导老师的信息。
小题1:答案：B 细节理解题。由第一段第一、二句可知答案为B项。
小题2:答案：B 细节理解题。由第二段第一句可知答案为B项。
小题3:答案：D 细节理解题。由最后一段大意可知答案为D项。
小题4:答案：A 词义猜测题。由画线词组前后的“success”和“good exam results”以及常识可知此处指成功就等于好成绩。故选A项。
小题5:答案：A 推理判断题。由文章大意可知本文是叙述课外辅导的信息，可以排除B、C、D三项。故选A项。