2014届高三英语二轮专题：阅读理解 22.docVIP

2014届高三英语二轮专题：阅读理解 BEIJING—Chinas Beijing and Shanghai cities and Guangdong Province on Sunday published plans to gradually allow migrant workers(外来务工人员) children to enter senior high schools and sit college entrance exams locally. They are the latest in a total of 13 provinces and municipalities(市) to formulate plans to ensure that rural children who have followed their parents to cities can enjoy the same rights as their urban peers in education. Beijing will allow migrant workers children to attend local vocational schools in 2013 and allow them to be matriculated by universities after graduating from the vocational programs in 2014, said a statement from the citys commission of education. Shanghai took a step further, saying it will allow migrant children in the city to enter local senior high schools, vocational schools and sit college entrance exams (commonly known as gaokao) locally starting in 2014. Guangdong has asked its cities to start recruiting(招收)migrant workers children in local senior high schools in 2013. The province will allow these children to sit gaokao and compete with local residents on an equal feeting in college entrance starting in 2016, Luo said the restrictions would be relaxed gradually and “step by step” as the province must solve the conflict between its gigantic migrant population and a scarcity of education resources. Migrant workers, whose children could be benefited by the new plans of the three regions, must have residential permits, stable jobs and incomes, and meet other local requirements, according to the plans. Chinas hukou, or household registration system, used to confine children to attending schools in their home provinces. A 2003 regulation amended this by allowing migrant workers children to receive the nine-year compulsory education in cities where their parents work. Official figures show that China has more than 250 million farmers-turned-workers living in cities. An estimated 20 million children have migrated wi