New York City is the destination for many immigrants. Students in cities like New York are used to hearing wide variations of English. In a town where immigrant communities flourish, many dialects and languages mix with standard English. Within the New York City public school system, a number of programs have been established to address this situation. One such innovative program is the International High School in Queens. Its mission is to help new immigrant students develop not only academic skills, but also the cultural skills that are necessary for success in high school, college, and beyond. Only students who have been in the United States for less than four years are eligible for admission.
The philosophy of this school is that you learn by doing, and not by hearing the teacher lecture. In some of the classes such as math class, six teams of young people are gathered around lab tables, building their own miniature temple out of cardboard. They're speaking Spanish, English, and Mandarin Chinese. This is not just a bilingual classroom, it's a multilingual one. Although they come from all over the world, the students at the International High School understand each other very well. Probably what they share most is the feeling of not fitting in, a feeling of estrangement.
In other classes, students who know more English and more math will help teach those who know less. Whenever they have problems with pronunciation, they correct each other instead of making fun of the errors.
New York City can be an intimidating place, even for those who have spent their whole lives here. But for young people who have just been uprooted from tight-knit, extended families and traditional communities abroad, the city can seem positively unfriendly. In the past, immigrants to the U. S. often feel the need to assimilate as quickly as possible into mainstream American culture. The fact that immigrant youngsters speak a language other than English is seen by most educators as a problem that needs to be corrected. The usual approach is to teach students exclusively in English, and to suppress the use of their native language.
However, according to teachers in the school, young immigrants don't just need a place to learn English and other subjects, they need, above all else, a place that feels completely safe and welcoming. It's particularly important for these students to have a comfort level in a place called school and for that school to feel like home, to feel like their needs are going to get met, urn, they're going to be listened to, they're going to be valued for who they are and the diverse backgrounds that they come from, and that those things are viewed as what makes them special rather than what makes them a problem.
Language is more than just the way that you communicate with the world; it's the way that you interpret the world in your own head. There's something more than just communication that's lost when you lose your native language.
Question:
16.Which one of the following statements is NOT true about the International High School？
17.What is the philosophy of the innovative program in the International High School？
18.Why can the students understand each other very well？
19.According to the teachers in the school, what's the most important need of the immigrant students？
20.What does the speaker imply when be says "Language is more than the way you communicate with the world？"
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A. Students who have been in the United States for more than four years are not eligible for admission.
B. Its mission is to help new immigrant students develop not only academic skills, but also the necessary cultural skills.
C. Their students are all immigrants from different countries.
D. English is exclusively used in teaching.