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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：国际学校本土化持续发展 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：国际学校本土化持续发展 GRE考试精品课程指导  English-language schools once aimed at expatriates now cater to domestic elites  英语学校，旧时外侨堂前燕，飞入寻常土豪家  IN 1979, when Ken Ross was eight, his family moved from Scotland to France for his fathers job with IBM. The computer firm paid the fees at the English School of Paris, where his classmates were mostly children of expats from Britain and elsewhere: managers, army officers, diplomats and the like. A couple were Saudi princes. For the most recent class reunion, old boys and girls flew in from as far afield as China and South Africa.  1979年，那时候Ken Ross年8岁，因为父亲在IBM上班，他的家从苏格兰搬到法国。IBM支付了他在巴黎上英文学校的学费。在那里，他的同学大都从英国和其他地方来的移民的孩子：经理的、军官的、外交官等的孩子。其中一对夫妇是还是沙特王子。为了参加最近的一次班级聚会，已经成年的男孩子、女孩子要从中国和南非这样远的地方飞过来。  Since then, there has been a boom in such “international schools”, which teach in English in non-Anglophone countries, mostly offering British A-levels, American APs and SATs, or the International Baccalaureate. During the past quarter-century, according to the International School Consultancy Group (ISC), based in Britain, their number has grown from under 1,000 to more than 7,300. In the 2013-14 academic year they generated $41.6 billion in revenue and taught 3.75m pupils globally (see chart). Twenty-two countries have more than 100 international schools, headed by the UAE, with 478, and China, with 445.  从他那个时代开始，许多这样的“国际学校”冒了出来，这些学校在非英语国家用英文教学，大都提供英国高考、美国预科及高考服务或颁发国际文凭。在过去的25年里，根据在总部设在英国的国际学校咨询集团(ISC)的统计，这些学校的数量已经从不到1000所增长到超过7300所。在2013-14学年，它们在全球创造了416亿美元的收益，培养了375万学生(见图表)。有22个国家拥有的国际学校数量超过100所，阿联酋以478所独占鳌头，中国则紧随其后，有445所。  But nowadays international schools increasingly belie their name. Though their clientele varies from place to place, four-fifths of the pupils they teach around the world are locals, the ISC calculates. Thirty years ago, just a fifth were. The main reason is increased demand for schooling mostly or entirel