中国大学MOOC: A MENTORING (导师制) program is giving life changing opportunities to Banbury youth. Young Inspirations was founded two years ago to provide mentoring sessions for students and unemployed young adults aged 11 to 21.Alex Goldberg, the programs founder, said：“We set up Young Inspirations because we wanted to give young people experiences which will potentially be life changing and broaden their outlook.“We try to create work experience opportunities that will really make a difference to our youth. For example, weve secured internships (实习) with world－famous firms such as Honda.“At a time of funding cutbacks where schools are finding it more and more difficult to offer this kind of mentoring, it is extremely important that these opportunities are available both to help youth with their school work and grades and to give them opportunities which may help shape their futures.” Kieran Hepburn, 14, is one of a group of Banbury youth who has benefited from the program so far. In October the Banbury School pupil was accompanied by Young Inspirations staff to Paris where he was an observer at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) International Youth Forum (论坛)．The event was held for young people from around the world, to seek their views on how the future of youth and education should look. Kieran joined several hundred observers mostly in their 20s and was the only UK school pupil to attend the event. Kieran thinks the trip was a life changing experience. “Before we left I didnt quite know what to make of it but when we got there we didnt stop; it was amazing，”he said, “We went to three or four hours of debates each day and then did something cultural each afternoon.”The main theme of the forum was how youth can drive change in political and public life. It dealt with issues (问题) such as drug abuse, violence and unemployment.Kieran said: “It has really helped me to improve my confidence and social skills as well as my school grades and I was voted most improved pupil at school in August.”The Young Inspirations mentoring sessions take place each Friday in Banbury. For details visit www.younginspirations.com. The Young Inspirations mentoring program aims to ________．
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- It’s good that _____have their own ideas about life as well as about being cool. A: the young B: youth C: the young man D: young
- Yesterday we had a lecture given by a _____ teacher. A: well-mannered young school B: young well-mannered school C: well-mannered school young D: school well-mannered young
- American writer and educator William White said, “In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.”（ ）
- 1. I am one of the（1） of Designing Your Life: How to Live a Well-lived Joyful Life. That’s （2） the class we Stanford teachers called Designing Your Life. 2. So one of the biggest（3） in the class is the odyssey plan. People （4） three completely different plans for their life. 3. And he had one（5） where he just described the period of time between about 20 and 35 as your odyssey years, the years when you discover and （6） who you gonna be, you know, as or for one grown-up. 4. So we use the phrase, odyssey years, to describe（7） the ten years between about 22 and 32, or 20 to 35 that ten-to-fifteen-year period. 5. It is really a （8） time in any young person’s life. And we like the idea of an odyssey. It is sort of journey, you know, a mystical journey through all these（9） . 6. And that is when we have, you know, more stages in our life, so we have more time to do this kind of（10） . So it’s really a（11） time in a young person’s life.
- . We should try our best to stop young people ________ smoking.