为了方便广大托福考生更好的复习，前程百利托福小编收集了托福词汇边读边学系列，供各位考生复习参考使用，希望对考生记忆托福词汇有所帮助。本文带来的是第2篇：不同阶层孩子表现不同，一起来看看。
Working-class kids ask for help from teachers less often and less aggressively (攻击性的)than do their middle-class counterparts(相对应的人)
Kids from different economic backgrounds behave differently in classrooms. For example, working-class kids are less likely to ask for help from teachers than are their middle-class counterparts(相对应的人). And when they do ask for help, they’re less aggressive(好斗的) about it. That’s according to a study that followed students from the third grade through the fifth, published in the journal American Sociological Review.
Part of the difference in how kids act comes from the guidance (监护人)they’ve gotten at home. As a rule, working class parents coach(说教) their kids to work out problems on their own. And if the kids did ask for help, it was in subtle ways—like sitting quietly with a hand raised. Middle class kids? Their parents urged(怂恿) them to be proactive(有前瞻性的), even to interrupt their teachers for help.
The result is that teachers were more likely to attend to the assistance-seekers(寻求着) and louder class-participators，which left working class kids behind and magnified (放大的)inequalities. So the working class child’s behavior, which they and their parents see as “respectful,”(恭敬的) could impair their success in the classroom. And prevent them from joining their classmates in higher social classes.
下面是本篇文章的疑难词汇汇总：
Respectful adj. 恭敬的;有礼貌的
Aggressively adv. 侵略地;攻击地;有闯劲地
Counterpart n. 副本;配对物;极相似的人或物
Coach n. 教练;旅客车厢;长途公车;四轮大马车vt. 训练;指导
vi. 作指导;接受辅导;坐马车旅行
subtle adj. 微妙的;精细的;敏感的;狡猾的;稀薄的
proactive adj. 前摄的
以上就是本期托福词汇边读边学的内容，希望能够帮助大家备考。最后前程百利祝大家都能取得理想的托福考试成绩。
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