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PAGE 1 - / NUMPAGES 1 双语美文文章3篇 双语美文文章1  Deep among the streams and Kauri trees of ruralsouth Auckland, New Zealand’s newest and mostalternative school is in session. The weather is fineso a bout of fishing is in order, followed by lunchcooked on an open fire. Homework and classes? Indefinitely dismissed.  在南奥克兰乡间的溪流边和贝壳杉树下，新西兰最新最另类的学校正在“上课”。天气很好，所以学生们将会去钓鱼，接着大家会在野外生火做午饭。作业和听课呢?无限期取消了。  “We are called a school but we look nothing like anyschool out there,” says Joey Moncarz, co-founder andhead teacher at Deep Green Bush School, which is in term two of its inaugural year.  深绿丛林学校的联合创始人、校长乔伊?蒙卡兹说：“我们名为学校，但一点也不像其他学校。”现在是学校创办以来的第二学期。  “We don’t do things like telling kids it is time to write or learn maths. When they are interestedin doing it, they do it.”  “我们不会告诉孩子该写字或该学数学了。当他们感兴趣的时候，他们就会去学。”  Moncarz is an ex-mainstream teacher. After five frustrating years in mainstream schools in NewZealand he quit to found Deep Green Bush school, which has a roll of eight, and no classroomwalls, time-out chairs or tests.  蒙卡兹以前也是一个主流学校的老师。在新西兰的主流学校里待了五年后他觉得很灰心，于是就辞职创办了深绿丛林学校。这个学校只有八名学生，没有教室，没有罚坐椅，也没有考试。  Concerned that mainstream schools were not preparing children for the global problems of thefuture – such as climate change – Moncarz envisioned a radically different kind of education, rooted in the primal skills of hunting, gathering and survival.  由于担心主流学校没有指导孩子为将来的全球性问题——比方气候变化——做好准备，蒙卡兹设想出了一种截然不同的教育，这种教育基于打猎、觅食和生存等原始技能。  If the weather allows, pupils spend the majority of their day outdoors, exploring the NewZealand bush, learning to fish and hunt, trapping possums (which are considered a pest) andlearning about the flora and fauna of their home.  如果天气允许的话，学生大半天都会在户外活动，探索新西兰的丛林，学习钓鱼和打猎，抓捕负鼠(负鼠被认为是害畜)，学习了解自家附近的动植物。  The more traditional school skills, such as reading, writing and arithmetic, are acquired attheir own pace, after they begin showing an interest in them. Not, says Moncarz, when theteacher dictates it