[by:可可英语~m.moreplr.com]
[00:01.44]Awards-School-Encouragement
颁奖-学校-鼓励
[00:04.73]Schools like to give out lots of awards.
学校喜欢颁发很多奖项（给学生）。
[00:08.68]These awards serve the purpose of honoring the ones receiving them and also encouraging the others to do better.
这些颁奖的目的是给予得奖人光荣，并鼓励其他人更加努力。
[00:15.99]This strategy works,but by giving out too many,the awards could become commonplace and less important.
这种策略有其效果，但如果给得太多的话，这些奖项就会变得很普通且变得不怎么重要了。
[00:23.21]One type of awards is the excellence award.
有一种奖称为优秀奖。
[00:26.49]They give this to one person in each grade level who ranked first in a subject area.
校方把它颁发给各年级某一学科排名第一的人。
[00:32.33]The subjects include math,science,language arts,social studies,foreign language,and various arts like theatre,dance,and visual arts.
些学科包括数学，科学，语文，社会学科，外语，和各种艺术学科，例如戏剧，舞蹈，和美术。
[00:43.35]Those who get two or more of these awards immediately stand out.
这如果有人获得两个奖项以上，他马上就会变成从人所瞩目的焦点。
[00:47.88]Sometimes there are awards for those who improved significantly over the past.
有一些奖项是颁给那些比过去进步很多的人。
[00:53.26]If a student is far from being the best,he could pretend to do badly first,then show much improvement the next time.
如果有个学生很难得奖，他可以故意在一开始表现得很差。而使下一次进步了很多，（这样就可以获得进步奖）。
[01:01.38]Another interesting award is the outstanding ESL(English as a Second Language)student award,
另外一件有趣的是杰出ESL（英文是第二语言）学生奖，
[01:08.43]which is given to one ESL student for doing well in learning English.
这是颁给一个英语学得最好的ESL学生。
[01:13.21]What is funny is that there are rarely more than a handful of ESL students to choose from.
好笑的是，候选的ESL学生很少会超过5个人。