2022年考研英语阅览拓宽练习(2022年考研英一真题及解析)

??beforeanyone gets too excited about schools supposedly reopening on april 1, that’sunlikely to happen in much of california under the terms of the deal that gov.gavin newsom just worked out with the legislature.

the agreement announced monday to offer schools?$2 billion inincentives?to reopen at least their k-2 classrooms by april 1 is lessmeaningful than the governor’s recent turnaround on vaccines for teachers. thestate is now setting aside a hefty share of the doses to meet the demands ofteachers’ unions.

but even that’s not enough to meet april 1 deadlines for most schools.the new, one-dose j

ohnson & johnson vaccine is expected to be in shortsupply in the near future, leaving teachers to depend on the two othervaccines, which require two doses and take five to six weeks to fully protect aperson. that pushes school reopenings at least to mid-april.

based on what the studies show, we shouldn’t need to wait thatlong. a single dose of the two vaccines that have been used so far providesabout 85% protection a couple of weeks after the first shot — which is aboutthe same protection provided by the johnson & johnson vaccine. that’s avery high level, though a little bit short of the 95% or so reached after twodoses.

it’s hard to imagine why state, district and union officialscouldn’t have put their heads together and agreed on a science-based approach.we’re sacrificing weeks of in-person schooling in order for teachers to obtaina little extra protection in schools, many that have already been operatingsafely without vaccines. the los angeles, san diego and san francisco schooldistricts have all declared that they will not open until teachers are fullyvaccinated; their unions demanded that much.

(also, l.a. unified teachers will obtain most of the vaccinesthrough access codes, a potentially leaky system that could enable unqualifiedpeople to jump the line. the state should simply provide doses directly to thedistrict to inoculate its staff.)

in ways, this is a true april fool’s deal for the public; itsounds like a rush to reopen schools, but because teachers and other staffdon’t receive the $2 billion, they’re unlikely to budge on the demand for fullvaccination before returning to the classroom. april 1 isn’t even a drop-deaddate for receiving state incentives, which will remain available in reducedform after that. by the time the kids get their seat assignments, the schoolyear will be effectively over.

schools needed a deal months ago that set aside vaccinations forteachers — with one dose considered sufficient to get started, and a seconddose promised when needed — and that required incremental reopening of schoolswhere it was safe. by now, for primary-school students, that’s most ofcalifornia. instead, the governor, legislature and most school districtsessentially left it to the unions to decide. the results sadly show whereeducation lies in the state’s priorities.

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