VOA慢速英语:Using Art to Make Summer School More Interesting

1. A growing effort across the country aims to deal with it by offering more interesting summer school programs.

deal with  与...交涉,交易;应付;处理
例句：He has learnt to deal properly with all kinds of complicated situations.
他已学会恰当地应付各种复杂局面。

2. On a recent day, students read out loud about communities in a third-grade social studies class at Bushman Elementary in Dallas, Texas.

read out 宣读
例句：She read out the letter to all of us.
她向我们大家宣读了这封信。

3. Ms. Pegram says students who do not take summer enrichment classes often need to relearn lessons when they return in the fall.
 
need to 需要
例句：It isn’t a cancellation, exactly, so there is no need to show a cancel indicator. 
确切地说，它不是一种取消，所以也就不需要显示取消符号。 

4. This is especially true of low-income students. They are less likely, for example, to live near public libraries offering both books to read and special summer reading programs.

for example 例如
例句：For example, this problem crops up frequently when querying databases. 
例如，在查询数据库时，这一问题频频出现。 

5. And for poor kids, the loss can be as much as three months of school learning that just disappears over the course of the summer.

as much as 足足，尽可能
例句：As much as they can, the families avoid contact with the neigbourhood. 
各家都尽可能地避免与邻居接触。