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去年，有394669名中国学生就读于美国各小学、中学和大学，这比其他任何一个国家的在美留学生都要多。越来越多的家长随着这些学生来到美国，购置当地房产或是投资50多万美元以求获得绿卡。
虎妈们通常是只身一人来到美国，而丈夫们则独自留在国内。宾夕法尼亚大学应用数学系一位硕士生的母亲胡文雪辞去了原来在深圳的财务总监职位，来到费城作儿子的专职厨师。通过当地的教会，她认识了其他的中国虎妈，其中大多数人持有旅游护照，每次她们可以在美国停留至多6个月时间。
这些中国父母目前已成为美国房地产市场的中国主力军。去年，中国晋升为美国最大的外来房地产投资方，共投入286亿美元的巨款。据中国一海外房产网站，居外网的美国区总裁Matthew Moore所说，70%左右的询盘主要来源于教育需求。芝加哥的房产中介预测将会有更多的中国家长购入昂贵的公寓楼。在加州尔湾，房地产公司ReMax Omega Irvine的首席执行官方嘉璇说，大约70%-80%新建楼盘的购买者是那些孩子正在或准备在附近大学读书的中国家长。洛杉矶、西雅图、波士顿和达拉斯等大学城也呈现同样的趋势。
美国威翰地产集团首席执行官史蒂文·罗森称：“中国人在哪里买，你就在哪里买，因为他们必定会导致房价的持续上涨。”
宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院的房地产教授苏珊·沃切特认为，随着某些大学城的房价不断攀升，会有越来越多的中国买家投身其中。相较租房，买房会变得越来越有吸引力，因为他们的的孩子们可以将空房间租给同学，再用房租支付物业费和税金，而未来房价上涨还可以带来更多利润。
一些虎妈甚至还试图通过付首付或是直接付全款买房来帮助孩子结婚。在中国文化里，有房可以给人一种安全感，也能增加找到另一半的几率。
第一步：解决高频单词
boast [boʊst]
v.吹嘘
bubble [ˈbʌbl]
n. 泡沫
depreciation [dɪˌpriʃiˈeʃən]
n. 跌价，贬值
pressing [ˈpresɪŋ]
adj. 紧迫的，紧急的
shoot up [ʃu:t ʌp]
迅速向上
draw in [drɔ: in]
吸收 ，拉入
down-payment ['daʊnp'eɪmənt]
n. 分期付款的首付款
qualify [ˈkwɒlɪfaɪ]
v. 有资格，达标
park [pɑ:k]
v. 停车，把…放置在某处
sense [sɛns]
n. 感觉，意识 v.领会
第二步：精读重点段落
（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）
Chinese tiger mums start a college-town housing boom
[1] EVERYONE knows that Chinese students are flooding American campuses. Less widely known is that their mothers are coming, too, buying local properties or investing at least $500,000 in businesses to try to qualify for a green card.
- contingent n.代表团
[2] The tiger mums usually come to America alone, leaving their husbands behind. “When I wasn’t here, my son would survive on instant noodles and energy drinks for several days without eating fruit or vegetables,” says Wenxue Hu, mother of a masters student studying applied mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. She gave up her job as a corporate finance director in Shenzhen to cook for him in Philadelphia. Through a local church she met other Chinese tiger mums, most of whom entered with a tourist visa that allows them to stay up to six months each time.
[5] For the rising middle class in China, parking their wealth overseas also makes good business sense. The near-bubble in housing prices at home and the depreciation of the yuan have made them nervous, so diversification becomes pressing. As property prices shoot up in some college towns, more Chinese buyers are drawn in, says Susan Wachter, a real-estate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ownership, rather than renting, becomes more attractive, because their children can rent extra bedrooms to classmates to cover utility and tax bills, while also being able to benefit from future price rises.
- bubble n. 泡沫
[6] Some tiger mums also try to help their children get married by making the down-payment or even meeting the full cost. In Chinese culture, owning a property gives a sense of security and helps to attract a spouse. For these children, having a tiger mum is good fortune indeed.
- down－payment n.（分期付款的）首付款
第三步：攻克必学语法
今日主题：倒装句
这一次课我们将学会如何识别倒装句，更好的理解倒装句，如何写作倒装句。
例句：
Less widely known is that their mothers are coming, too.
其实我们只要把握住几个句子的原则，倒装句对我们来说就非常容易。首先形容词，副词，介词短语性质的内容都是不可以作句子主语的。
那么我们就会发现有一些句子，当你在分析架构的时候已经看到了谓语动词，可是还没有看到名词性质的主语出现，这些句子就是倒装句。倒装结构的主语一定是紧跟谓语之后的名词或者名词性对象。
我们用我们的例句尝试一下：
less widely是一个副词的比较结构，known是done的结构，也就是分词结构，属于形容词性质的，无法作主语，所以less widely known算作修饰语删掉之后，看到了is，这已经是句子的谓语了，这时候可以确定我们遇到了倒装结构，而倒装结构的真主是紧跟谓语之后的名词或名词性对象，那么这里真主是that引导的名词性从句。
所以我们例句正常语序的样子应该是：
That their mothers are coming, too is less widely known.
当然我们曾经都知道这样的一个句子，that从句作主语头重脚轻，我们喜欢用形式主语it来替代主语，把真主往后放。就变成了：
It is less widely known that their mothers are coming, too.
所以说，我们的例句和上面这个句子是一模一样的。
那接下来我们也可以写个倒装句：
比如，我们想说：“能力越大，责任越大”
With greater power comes greater responsibility.
恢复正常是：Greater responsibility comes with greater power.
加分任务：精读全文
在之前的三步后，你已经完全具备了精读全文的能力。再多花半个小时，让你的学习效果达到120%！
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（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）
A roaring trade
Chinese tiger mums start a college-town housing boom
[1] EVERYONE knows that Chinese students are flooding American campuses. Less widely known is that their mothers are coming, too. Last year 394,669 pupils from China were studying at American universities, secondary and primary schools, the largest contingent of all international students. Increasingly their parents are moving in with them, buying local properties or investing at least $500,000 in businesses to try to qualify for a green card.
- contingent n.代表团
[2] The tiger mums usually come to America alone, leaving their husbands behind. “When I wasn’t here, my son would survive on instant noodles and energy drinks for several days without eating fruit or vegetables,” says Wenxue Hu, mother of a masters student studying applied mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. She gave up her job as a corporate finance director in Shenzhen to cook for him in Philadelphia. Through a local church she met other Chinese tiger mums, most of whom entered with a tourist visa that allows them to stay up to six months each time. New Haven, Connecticut now boasts a “Yale Chinese grandparents’ village”, with 15 residents. The old folk live under the same roof as their children, mostly PhD and post-doctoral students at Yale who are too busy to take care of their own offspring.
- boast v. 夸口
- offspring n. 后代
[3] Although some parents rent, many others decide to buy. These Chinese dads and mums now make up a majority of Chinese buyers in America’s housing market. Last year China became the largest source of foreign property investment in America, pouring in $28.6 billion. Roughly 70% of inquiries from the Chinese indicated that education was the chief motive, says Matthew Moore, president of the American division of www.juwai.com, a Chinese international-property website. In Chicago estate agents anticipate more Chinese parents buying expensive condominiums. In Irvine, California, about 70-80% of buyers of new-builds are Chinese parents whose children attend, or plan to attend, nearby colleges, says Peggy Fong Chen, the CEO of ReMax Omega Irvine. Other college towns such as Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston and Dallas, see a similar trend.
- condominium n. 公寓
[4] Parents of younger children often venture into smaller towns with good primary and secondary schools. In New Jersey, towns like Millburn, Westfield and Princeton have seen prices rising 20-30% higher than in other places, partly because of interest from Chinese buyers. “If you want to make money in real estate,” says Steven Lawson, the CEO of Windham Realty Group, “buy where the Chinese are buying, because they perpetuate the price increase.”
- perpetuate v.使持久化
[5] For the rising middle class in China, parking their wealth overseas also makes good business sense. The near-bubble in housing prices at home and the depreciation of the yuan have made them nervous, so diversification becomes pressing. As property prices shoot up in some college towns, more Chinese buyers are drawn in, says Susan Wachter, a real-estate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ownership, rather than renting, becomes more attractive, because their children can rent extra bedrooms to classmates to cover utility and tax bills, while also being able to benefit from future price rises.
- bubble n. 泡沫
[6] Some tiger mums also try to help their children get married by making the down-payment or even meeting the full cost. In Chinese culture, owning a property gives a sense of security and helps to attract a spouse. For these children, having a tiger mum is good fortune indeed.
- Down－payment n.（分期付款的）首付款
boast [boʊst]
v.吹嘘
bubble [ˈbʌbl]
n. 泡沫
depreciation [dɪˌpriʃiˈeʃən]
n. 跌价，贬值
pressing [ˈpresɪŋ]
adj. 紧迫的，紧急的
shoot up [ʃu:t ʌp]
迅速向上
draw in [drɔ: in]
吸收 ，拉入
down-payment ['daʊnp'eɪmənt]
n. 分期付款的首付款
qualify [ˈkwɒlɪfaɪ]
v. 有资格，达标
park [pɑ:k]
v. 停车，把…放置在某处
sense [sɛns]
n. 感觉，意识 v.领会
不要一时兴起，就要天天在一起
明天见！
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A roaring trade
Chinese tiger mums start a college-town housing boom
[1] EVERYONE knows that Chinese students are flooding American campuses. Less widely known is that their mothers are coming, too. Last year 394,669 pupils from China were studying at American universities, secondary and primary schools, the largest contingent of all international students. Increasingly their parents are moving in with them, buying local properties or investing at least $500,000 in businesses to try to qualify for a green card.
[2] The tiger mums usually come to America alone, leaving their husbands behind. “When I wasn’t here, my son would survive on instant noodles and energy drinks for several days without eating fruit or vegetables,” says Wenxue Hu, mother of a masters student studying applied mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. She gave up her job as a corporate finance director in Shenzhen to cook for him in Philadelphia. Through a local church she met other Chinese tiger mums, most of whom entered with a tourist visa that allows them to stay up to six months each time. New Haven, Connecticut now boasts a “Yale Chinese grandparents’ village”, with 15 residents. The old folk live under the same roof as their children, mostly PhD and post-doctoral students at Yale who are too busy to take care of their own offspring.
[3] Although some parents rent, many others decide to buy. These Chinese dads and mums now make up a majority of Chinese buyers in America’s housing market. Last year China became the largest source of foreign property investment in America, pouring in $28.6 billion. Roughly 70% of inquiries from the Chinese indicated that education was the chief motive, says Matthew Moore, president of the American division of www.juwai.com, a Chinese international-property website. In Chicago estate agents anticipate more Chinese parents buying expensive condominiums. In Irvine, California, about 70-80% of buyers of new-builds are Chinese parents whose children attend, or plan to attend, nearby colleges, says Peggy Fong Chen, the CEO of ReMax Omega Irvine. Other college towns such as Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston and Dallas, see a similar trend.
[4] Parents of younger children often venture into smaller towns with good primary and secondary schools. In New Jersey, towns like Millburn, Westfield and Princeton have seen prices rising 20-30% higher than in other places, partly because of interest from Chinese buyers. “If you want to make money in real estate,” says Steven Lawson, the CEO of Windham Realty Group, “buy where the Chinese are buying, because they perpetuate the price increase.”
[5] For the rising middle class in China, parking their wealth overseas also makes good business sense. The near-bubble in housing prices at home and the depreciation of the yuan have made them nervous, so diversification becomes pressing. As property prices shoot up in some college towns, more Chinese buyers are drawn in, says Susan Wachter, a real-estate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ownership, rather than renting, becomes more attractive, because their children can rent extra bedrooms to classmates to cover utility and tax bills, while also being able to benefit from future price rises.
[6] Some tiger mums also try to help their children get married by making the down-payment or even meeting the full cost. In Chinese culture, owning a property gives a sense of security and helps to attract a spouse. For these children, having a tiger mum is good fortune indeed.
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