Technology alone cannot solve the problem of vehicle pollution.A．YESB．NOC．NOT GIVEN

be even more unsatisfactory. Computers and access to the Internet are now common features in most American schools, but they have taken a long and winding road to get there, so quick and widely shared improvements in math and science test scores may be unrealistic. Also, the use of computers in classrooms does not necessarily mean that science and math curricula have been adjusted to take full advantage of them. And a widely perceived lack of teacher training prevents many teachers from effectively implementing both the technology and new approaches to teaching.

"Technology access is important," says Roberts. "But technology alone never makes the difference in student performance. It's equally important [ to have] teachers who are comfortable and competent with technology, and who have the right kind of training and support."

Federal funding for public school technology, which goes directly to the states, is $ 425 million this year. About one-third of that amount is earmarked for professional development.

In some cases, technology can help move both teachers and students toward their goals. One of Roberts' favorite Web sites is Ask Dr. Math, which can help teachers and students struggling with difficult material. Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for K-12 math students and their teachers; it has received a number of Internet awards, including the Best Education Site Award. You can search an archive of questions and answers by level and topic, and students and teachers can e-mail their specific questions as well. E-mail answers come courtesy of 225 volunteer math "doctors" from all over the world.

But teachers need some formal technology training too. That' s the objective of the W. M. Keck Summer Technology Institute, which takes place at the Thacher School, a 110-year-old boarding school in Ojai, California. With a $ 280,000 grant from the Keck Foundation, the school accepts Southern California teachers for intensive training in using computers, the Internet, and a gaggle of high-tech equipment. The one-week summer sessions began in 1997, continued in 1998, and will repeat in 1999. Roughly 60 percent of the attendees are math and science teachers.

Ask Dr. Math could be described as the following EXCEPT ______.

A．a question and answer service

B．a technology training program

C．with a database of questions and answers

D．supported by volunteer math teachers

ents through a series of identical classrooms in which teachers do most of the talking and students have little opportunity to respond. Among these innovations are team teaching and teacher aides, non-graded elementary and secondary schools, independent study, curricula focused on helping students discover things for themselves rather than on trying to tell them everything, and schools designed for maximum flexibility so that students can work alone, or in small groups, or take part in large group instruction via diverse media. The aim of all these innovations is to adapt instruction more precisely to the needs of each individual student. Many people who have a strong dislike to organizing instruction scientifically and to bringing new technology into the schools and colleges fail to realize that the present system is in many respects mechanical and rigid. The vast differences in the ways students learn are disregarded when they are taught the same thing, in the same way, at the same time. There is no escaping the evidence that many students themselves feel little enthusiasm and even outright hostility for the present way schools and collages are organized and instruction is handled. Many of them resent technology, but what they object to is usually technology used as a means for handling a large number of students. Or it is programming which merely reproduces conventional classroom responds and learns, reaching new plateaus from which to climb to higher levels of understanding. Technological media can store information until it is needed or wanted. They can distribute it over distances to reach the student where he happens to be. They can present the information to the student through various senses. They can give the student the opportunity to react to the material in many ways. In short, the student's opportunities for learning can be increased and enhanced by using a wide range of instructional technology. All the available resources for instruction, including the teacher, can work together to create conditions for maximum effective learning.

The author is mainly concerned with ______.

A．providing the possibility for students to take the courses they want

B．making technology an active tool in the school

C．relieving the teacher from routine duties

D．meeting the needs of each student

n designed to help senior citizens living alone.

Manufactured by robotics company Shanghai PT Info, the brightly colored robot, which costs 5,000 yuan ($790), was launched on Aug 14 to help entertain and monitor elderly people.

In Shanghai last year, the number of registered residents at least 60 years old was 4 million. That was nearly 30 percent of the population. By 2018, the figure is projected to rise to 5 million.

With many living alone, robots such as Roby Mini can help play a crucial role in caring for the elderly. "It will change the way people interact with digital products," Hong says.

Founded in May, Shanghai PT Info had already done the groundwork. In fact, the research team spent three years developing the speech recognition system before the firm was officially launched.

With 360-degree wheels hidden under its body, Roby Mini can follow a person through face recognition and strike up a conversation, tell jokes or provide information.

The robot also works as a computer terminal, supplying weather information, ordering groceries online and even booking taxis. Roby Mini can be connected to other gadgets as well, such as smart wristbands or magnetic devices on doors.

Roby Mini can also connect an elderly owner to a doctor through its high-definition screen.Already Shanghai PT Info is talking to three community hospitals in Shanghai's Minhang district. Since the robot is linked to the Internet, it can support long-distance audio and video calls.

Mass production started this month and Shanghai PT Info plans to manufacture 200,000 units this year.

But the future is not easy for Shanghai PT Info. Earlier this year, Flyingwings Intelligent Robot Technology (Shanghai) introduced a machine with sensors that will ring an alarm when an elderly person falls down.Tianjin ShangjiuShengyuan Technology Group also developed a robot for seniors in 2014. Owners can turn on the lights and air-conditioning units by pressing buttons on the machine.It can also remind elderly owners to take pills, and inform. them of hospital checkups and family birthdays.

1. Roby Mini is the name of.{A; B; C}

A. a robotics company

B. a robot

C. a senior citizen living alone

2. Roby Mini is designed to.{A; B; C}

A. help look after children living alone in senior high school

B. help entertain and monitor senior citizens

C. change the way people interact with digital products

3. According to this passage, the number of registered residents at least 60 years old will be. {A; B; C}

A. 4 million next year

B. 30 percent of the population

C. increase to 5 million by 2018

4. The writer thinks “the future is not easy for Shanghai PT Info” because.{A; B; C}

A.there are too many elder people in Shanghai

B. Roby Mini cannot ring an alarm when an elderly person falls down.

C. the company will face tough competition in the marketplace

5. The best title for this passage is.{A; B; C}

A. How to Use a Robot

B. Elder People Increase in Shanghai

C. Robot Gives Help to Older People

Read and analyze the following short text and identify the four stages of the SPSE approach. (a) Since its inception, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been an advocate for the American public – working to keep people, vehicles and roads safe. (b) Culture, technology and innovations both steer and detour us on our Road to Zero fatalities. (c) In 2015 alone, 35,092 lives were lost in motor vehicle crashes. (d) Crashes are no accident and each tragedy is preventable. (e) Americans deserve safer roads, and that starts with culture. (f) NHTSA is taking the initiative to create the future as opposed to just letting it happen. (g) In our view, the only acceptable goal for roadway fatalities is zero. (h) Our strategic plan, “The Road Ahead”, highlights three lanes that can deliver a future free from motor vehicle fatalities. SOURCE: Traveling the three lanes on the Road to Zero. Available at: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traveling-three-lanes-road-zero. (Accessed: 26 December 2016). Stages Sentences Situation 1. _____________ Problem 2._____________ Solutions 3._____________ Evaluation 4. _____________ 注意：请把句子的代码填入，代码间空一格 1. __________

ss of 33 students taking his course in statistics into two groups. The “traditional” group was taught in a classroom every Saturday morning for 14 weeks. The “on-line” group came together only for examinations at the start and end of the course. None of the students in either group knew they were part of an experiment. The online group used electronic mail to cooperate in groups of three, assigned casually. They also took part in weekly discussions held on the Internet and weekly “live” online talk session regulated by Schutte. At the end of the course, the on-line students scored 20 per cent higher in their exam. A subsequent questionnaire indicated that they had spent more time on their coursework, and that they understood the material better. Schutte attributes the virtual students’ success to their eagerness to discuss their work on-line. The traditional students tended to work in isolation. “I would say the cooperation resulted from being afraid of having no face-to-face interaction with a professor,” Schutte says. He does not think that the on-line students became more enthusiastic simply because of the novelty of working with the Internet, “most of that gave way to discouragement due to the technology problems.” “We believe you can’t dispose of the help of a teacher, at least in schools,” says Jeff Morgan, director of communications technologies at the UK National Council for Educational Technology, “though the results are perfectly reasonable for university-age students.”

(1)Schutte’s experiment focuses on the use of on-line education _____

A、as a substitute for conventional teaching

B、in support of conventional teaching

C、as an improvement of conventional teaching

D、as a part of conventional teaching

(2)On-line education is different from the traditional one in that _____

A、it does not need any teachers

B、students work alone

C、there is much cooperation among students

D、exams are taken on-line

(3)The on-line group do better than the traditional group because _____

A、they work together through the Internet

B、they are interested in the Internet

C、they want to do better than the “traditional” group

D、they don’t like the traditional teaching

(4)The result of the study shows that _____

A、students can learn without teachers

B、learning at home is better than attending courses in the classroom

C、working on technology problems creates enthusiasm for students

D、advanced technology can enhance learning

(5)Jeff Morgan’s attitude toward the on-line teaching is _____

A、pessimistic

B、positive

C、neutral

D、critical

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

The past 40 years have witnessed an extraordinary evolution. From slow expensive machines controlled by punched cards, computers have become low-cost, powerful units taking up no more space than a briefcase. Simultaneously, our world has become interlaced with telephone wires, optic fibers, undersea cables, microwave links, television channels and satellite communications.

At the crossing of these two developments stands the Internet—a direct result of computer technology intersecting with communication technology. But for many in the world of today's media, this is merely a first landmark in what promises to be a giant upheaval in the way people communicate, relax and work. This is the era of digital convergence.

According to a recent article in Scientific American, convergence is in principle "the union of audio, video and data communications into a single source, received on a single device, delivered by a single connection." Digital technology has already provided a medium for integrating media that until now required distinct channels of communication: we can now send emails using our televisions or text messages over mobile phones. Real-time video can be transmitted over radio channels, while television and radio can be received on Personal Computers.

Full digital convergence promises real-time access to information anywhere in the world, and global communication through text, graphics, video and audio. In fact, there seems to be no technological limit to what might be possible. "The reality of 'anywhere, anytime' access to broadband digital networks is going to make our lives freer and fuller," Gerald Levin, chief executive officer of AOL Time Warner, has promised. But technology alone cannot bring about such a world, as long as consumers and companies do not embrace it, convergence is likely to go the way of several hyped-up predecessors.

Over a decade ago, for example, virtual reality was the technology of the future, and many people anticipated a day where we would be wearing head-mounted displays and interacting with all manner of virtual environments. At the time there was real concern about changes in industrial practices and social behavior. brought about by this technology. So what happened to this vision？ Well, we got it wrong. Currently, the home computer is the main interface to the Internet. But relatively few people in the world have access to PCs, and few would argue that they are ideal for the purpose—they can crash and freeze because they were not designed for widespread Internet use.

In this text the extraordinary evolution refers to______.

A．the appearance of the smaller, low-cost and powerful computers.

B．the interrelated telephone wires, optic fibers, undersea cables, microwave links.

C．the popularity of TV channels and satellite communication.

D．the fast development of computer and communication technology.

ike modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world.Such people look for perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past.They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in any original ways.It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures.If the work of art is a pamting, the artist's failure concerns himself alone, but if it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place.This does sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing.

We can't judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient buildings.Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced.

The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to imitate the past.He is too proud to do that.

21.Some people hate everything that is modern because().

A.they are aged

B.they find it hard to accept modern things

C.they take their standards of perfection from the Greek

D.they look at things by the standards of the past

22.The writer of the passage thinks that().

A.it is true to say artists fail in their work

B.it is untrue to say artists fail in their work

C.it is true to say some artists fail in their work

D.it is true to say only painters fail in their work

23.The writer thinks the failure of a building().

A.means nothing

B.concerns others

C.concerns only the artist

D.concerns all the people in the world

24.The writer thinks that ().

A.we can't judge buildings by the ancient standards

B.we can't judge all the buildings by the ancient standards

C.we can't judge all the modern buildings by the ancient standards

D.we can't judge modern buildings

25.Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced.The sentence means ().

A.the ancient architects had no technology

B.the modern architects use more advanced technology

C.the modern buildings are advanced because they are completely different from the ancient buildmgs

D.the modern buildings are more beautiful

ed the Electric Car？", the filmmakers duly pointed the finger at General Motors. The【C1】______ is not so simple, but there is little doubt that when GM pulled the plug on its EV1 battery-powered car a decade ago, other【C2】______ followed the Giant carmaker's lead.

Yet GM has now 【C3】______ its enthusiasm for electric vehicles — or at least for their close cousins, hybrid cars (混合动力汽车). At the upcoming auto show, the company is expected to【C4】______ a prototype that overtakes existing hybrids，【C5】______ Toyota's Pruis.

Today's hybrids capture energy normally【C6】______ during braking and coasting and use it to power an electric motor that can provide extra bursts of【C7】______ when needed. The Pruis and other hybrids can also run【C8】______ battery power alone at low speeds over short distances, such as in stop-start traffic.

But GM's new car is expected to be a "plug-in" hybrid, which, as its name implied, can be recharged by 【C9】______ it into the mains (干线). Together with a big battery pack, this provides a much larger range in all-electric【C10】______ , after which the petrol engine kicks in. GM's car is expected to go around 50 miles (80 km) in all-electric mode，【C11】______ enough for American commuters, who would need to use the 【C12】______ engine on longer trips only. The【C13】______ is that plug-in hybrids need a much larger and more costly battery pack．【C14】______ a Pirus to operate as a plug-in hybrid, as some enthusiasts have done, costs around ＄12,000.

GM bosses have hinted that his company planned to put a plug-in into mass【C15】______ . It is an indication of how the pace is 【C16】______ in the race to develop more eco-friendly cars.

Others are more【C17】______ . Carlos Ghson, the boss of Renault and Nissan, who is 【C18】______ for his skepticism towards hybrids, said he still had doubts that hybrid technology is【C19】______ for the mass market, stressing that plug-in hybrids will have to wait until battery technology improves. Toyota has also been【C20】______ about plug-ins, insisting the Pims' approach is more convenient.

【C1】

A．information

B．reality

C．plot

D．story

modern music; they find it hard to accept the new fashions in clothing; they think that all modern painting is ugly; and they seldom have a good word for the new buildings that are being built everywhere in the world. Such people look for perfection in everything, and they take their standards of perfection from the past. They are usually impatient with anyone who is brave enough to experiment with new or to express himself or the age in materials original ways.

It is, of course, true that many artists do not succeed in their work and instead produce works that can only be considered as failures. If the work of art is a painting, the artist’s failure concerns himself alone, but if it is a building, his failure concerns others too, because it may damage the beauty of the whole place. This does sometimes happen, but it is completely untrue to say, as some people do, that modern architecture is nothing. We can’t judge every modern building by the standards of the ancient time, even though we admire the ancient buildings. Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The modern architect knows he should learn from the ancient works, but with his greater resources of knowledge and materials, he will never be content to imitate the past. He is too proud to do that.

Technologically, the modern buildings are more advanced. The sentence means _____.

A.the ancient architects had no technology

B.the modern architects use more advanced technology

C.the modern buildings are advanced because they are completely different from the ancient buildings

D.the modern buildings are more beautiful

Some people hate everything that is modern because _______.A.they are aged

B.they find it hard to accept modern things

C.they take their standards of perfection from the Greek

D.they look at things by the standards of the past

The writer thinks the failure of a building _______.A.means nothing

B.concerns others

C.concerns only the artist

D.concerns all the people in the world

The writer of the passage thinks that ________.A.it is true to say artists fail in their work

B.it is untrue to say artists fail in their work

C.it is true to say some artists fail in their work

D.it is true to say only painters fail in their work

The writer thinks that _________.A.we can’t judge buildings by the ancient standards

B.we can’t judge all the buildings by the ancient standards

C.we can’t judge all the modern buildings by the ancient standards

D.we can’t judge modern buildings

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